Where are those e-mails now ?

What mail service do you use? If it's something like Yahoo mail, they may have it stored, if you had them on your comp on something like OE you may search for them by name but there is little chance you'll find them. Unless you also had a PDA on which you stored the addresses. Amos.

global search using the search option from the Start button. Check for specific text you know to be in an email. If it doesn't find it then Spinrite couldn't save it. I've been using Steve's programs for near 15 yrs. and I'd swear by them anytime. More people around here should think about his programs.

were you using? If anything other than Outlook Express, you were looking for the wrong files. For example, Outlook uses .pst for all e-mail, Eudora uses .mbx and .toc, etc.

BTW, you cannot always find e-mail files by usinf the Windows search to look for something within a particular mail. At least in .pst files, the pure text does not appear, and Windows search thus fails to find anything. You must search on the extension.

Frank

Your mail is gone. Outlook Express saves mail on the hard drive. The exception is if you have it set to leave messages on the server. So unless you saved everything on a portable media or drive, all is lost.