If the hard drive was formatted with the reinstall, the files may be lost. You can try a data recovery program like Recuva and see if it can find them.
http://www.recuva.com/
Due to the seemingly common "Your product key is invalid" error condition I could not log on to Windows. After trying various ways to correct the error condition we gave up. I was told to re-install Windows Vista on my Dell Inspiron laptop (model E1405). Dell techs guessed there was a corrupted file in Windows or the product key may have been "stolen." So to make a long story short, first I backed up all my data files, but I forgot to backup Outlook files (in MS Office 2003, Student and Teacher Edition). Now that I've re-installed Vista, is there a way to recover the Outlook files? Any info would be most appreciated. Thank you.
Mike Fuller

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