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Question

How to recover Windows Live Mail files?

Apr 24, 2013 10:38PM PDT

A friend uses Windows Live Mail. They have a Dell laptop running Windows 7 Home. Recently, due to file corruption, their system has become unbootable even in Safe Mode. So she has the Dell recovery discs and will be running that process to recover her system.

The hard drive is still readable and we pulled it and connected it to another computer. We can copy files but how can we recover the Windows Live Mail data (messages, folders, contacts, etc.). Is there a way to do that without the programs export function?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Re: Windows Live mail data
Apr 24, 2013 11:12PM PDT

A helpful link:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/1ed37fd7-8fdd-4810-8506-429f8696536f/

But do I understand correctly they didn't include that data on their regular backup? Then it's time to rethink that. I find a $40 64 GB USB-stick a quite usable device to do a regular backup to. Just set up an incremental backup scheme (only the changes since the last time you did it) and once in a while (while enjoying dinner or TV or doing househuld work) put that stick in and start that backup. It's only a few clicks if setup correctly. Easy and useful.

Kees

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Unfortunately...
Apr 25, 2013 12:09AM PDT

...the last backup that they did was last year. I have appropriately slapped their hand and will set them up with a regular backup routine. I will check the link that you posted for a solution to the problem. Thanks.