Computer Crash!!

barron_2

HI ,
Hope some one can help,(not a comp wizz,at all!!!!)
This morning ,whilst doing a back up to stick,my comp hung,Just sat there so swiched off on front button.
Booted up again,but nothing,tried to do recovery,nothing.
In the end reloaded after format.
Now the question!!
Is there any way of getting emails and saved emails back from outlook ??.
I know when on AOL,they were still there after reload.
Trouble is because I was in middle of back up,Ive lost ALL my contacts!!?
HAS ANY ONE GOT ANY IDEAS, PLEASE!!!
Be gental!!
Thanks

BexTech

If you have formatted your drive and freshly reinstalled, and your email is POP3/SMTP email and you have (by default) set the email program to delete the emails of the email server once downloaded to your computer, then you have lost them.

You can set your email client not to delete emails from the server, once they are downloaded to your system, but you would run out of space on the email server, you could choose to delete say after 3, 5, 7 or whatever days just to be on the safe side in the future.

barron_2

Thanks Bex,
Yes its pop3,didnt know that.
Thought they were held somewhere in "cyberspace" like AOL.
Its a !!!!!!,because it looks like ive lost all the contacts for business.
Knew I should do 2 backups,then would have had them on the other stick.!!
Thanks again

barron_2

Just a quicky,I hadnt deleted mail,they were moved to folders for differring clients,would they be recoverable by an expert??
Only stuff deleted was marketing stuff.
Or am i on a lost cause??
It asked me to archive stuff Friday,does that help.!!

BexTech

When someone sends you an email it goes from their computer to their email server (be it their ISP or domain-email provider) it then gets sent to your email server (be it your ISP or domain-email provider) it remains on that server until your email program connects and checks whether there are any email waiting for you, if there is it will download the emails and once downloaded without problem delete them off the server, to make space for any new emails, this is why if you haven't connected to the internet for a week or more, you end up with hundreds of emails.

As said previously you can set the email program not to delete the emails after downloading, but your ISP or domain/email provider has set a mailbox size limit, and you may find it will soon get full, there needs to be a limit otherwise they would soon run need to had more and more storage, you could work out roughly how much emails you get coming in and set your email program to not delete emails for a few days after downloading.

Though unfortunately it is too late for the emails / details you have lost just.

BexTech

barron wrote:

Just a quicky,I hadnt deleted mail,they were moved to folders for differring clients,would they be recoverable by an expert??
Only stuff deleted was marketing stuff.
Or am i on a lost cause??
It asked me to archive stuff Friday,does that help.!!

Are these folders on the HDD you have formatted?

If so, there is a slim possibility that they could be recovered, depends on if the reload has overwritten the part of the drive where the data is, it would cost a lot of money for a data recovery company to try and get at that data, and there is a high chance they'd have no luck, as really it's when a drive has 'failed' and fresh/other data hasn't overwritten what is on the drive.

There are programs that allow you to undo the format, but you could find loads of corrupt files on the disc as a lot of the data/links are missing.

barron_2

Cheers agin,
The emails come through from the people who run my website,(I think)as the mail addresses are info@mywebsite.co.uk(for instance,without posting it,Dont want to get in trouble)!!
May be worth checking with the bods at HQ to see if they can retrieve from server.!!
But I think Im getting false hopes!!!
See my profile and give me a call ,will sort some dis for your next hol.
Thanks Again
Have a good w/end

barron_2

Cheers agin,
The emails come through from the people who run my website,(I think)as the mail addresses are info@mywebsite.co.uk(for instance,without posting it,Dont want to get in trouble)!!
May be worth checking with the bods at HQ to see if they can retrieve from server.!!
But I think Im getting false hopes!!!
See my profile and give me a call ,will sort some dis for your next hol.
Thanks Again
Have a good w/end

BexTech

barron wrote:

Cheers agin,
The emails come through from the people who run my website,(I think)as the mail addresses are info@mywebsite.co.uk(for instance,without posting it,Dont want to get in trouble)!!
May be worth checking with the bods at HQ to see if they can retrieve from server.!!
But I think Im getting false hopes!!!
See my profile and give me a call ,will sort some dis for your next hol.
Thanks Again
Have a good w/end

It's worth asking as they would probably back up their systems.

Thanks, hope you have a good weekend too!

barron_2

They were/are on the HDD that was formatted.
Another thought,if these programes undo the format,I could salvage the client data??
If links missing,then could reformat,Yes??
Sorry to be a pain.

BexTech

There is the chance you could salvage the data, depends if the reload has overwritten the part of the HDD or not of where the client data was.