Undelete Emails

95five-0 · 05-17-2005, 04:11 PM

Does anybody know how to recover lost emails through Outlook 2003. A girl at work deleted some emails that she needed and emtpied her deleted items folder. I was wondering if they was a way to recover these emails. We are using a microsoft exchange server but the emails are saved to the hard drive to save server space. Thanks.

**RavenMind** · 05-18-2005, 01:46 AM

Try going to the deleted items folder & clicking the "Tools" menu. Then "Recover deleted items". Have her find the one that she wants to recover & drag it over to the inbox.

**ReeKorl** · 05-18-2005, 03:39 AM

Failing that, you may be able to use an undelete tool on the folder which stored the email files. I'm not sure whether MSO03 stores the emails as separate files or as one big file. If it's one big file, this won't work, but as separate files you should be able to undelete some of them at least.

NOTE: for undelete utilities to work, the section of the hard drive containing the deleted data must not be written over. Because you can't specifiy where on the HD platter windows saves files, try to use the system as little as possible until you have attempted an undelete operation.

Try something like UnDelete 5.0 at MajorGeeks. This may help you.

05-17-2005, 04:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
95five-0 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Corinth, TX Posts: 1,339 OS: 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008	Undelete Emails Does anybody know how to recover lost emails through Outlook 2003. A girl at work deleted some emails that she needed and emtpied her deleted items folder. I was wondering if they was a way to recover these emails. We are using a microsoft exchange server but the emails are saved to the hard drive to save server space. Thanks. __________________ "If it's really a supercomputer, how come the bullets don't bounce off when I shoot it ?" <<PC Pitstop>><< AVG Free>><<Spybot>><<Everest 2.0>><<Trend Micro House Call>><<HijackThis How-to>> Last edited by 95five-0; 05-17-2005 at 04:13 PM.

05-18-2005, 03:39 AM	#3 (permalink)
ReeKorl Superhuman Computer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: 6th Circle, The City of Dis, Hell Posts: 1,610 OS: WinXP Pro SP2 My System	Failing that, you may be able to use an undelete tool on the folder which stored the email files. I'm not sure whether MSO03 stores the emails as separate files or as one big file. If it's one big file, this won't work, but as separate files you should be able to undelete some of them at least. NOTE: for undelete utilities to work, the section of the hard drive containing the deleted data must not be written over. Because you can't specifiy where on the HD platter windows saves files, try to use the system as little as possible until you have attempted an undelete operation. Try something like UnDelete 5.0 at MajorGeeks. This may help you. __________________ "Sorry, the number you have dialled is imaginary. Please rotate dial by 90 degrees and try again."

05-18-2005, 01:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
RavenMind Lazy Bum Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Salt Lake Posts: 1,015 OS: XP Home SP3/Vista	Try going to the deleted items folder & clicking the "Tools" menu. Then "Recover deleted items". Have her find the one that she wants to recover & drag it over to the inbox.