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unfortunately it did not work, I was not able to recover any of my messages or contacts. Thanks any way.

thanks for the input...I'll let you know what happens.

I actually do create folders and remove emails from my inbox into those folders. I will try the links and let you know what happens. Thanks for your help.

Hi Augeas, thank you very much for the information...I found the docs and they come up as Inbox.dbx etc...I just can't open them...any suggestions?

I did something real stupid the other day....I re-boot my hard drive and of course nothing was backed up. I used recuva (btw..great program) and it recovered quite a bit of information...I did a regular scan first, then a deep scan. Funny thing is, it recovered most of my older files, but the newer ones are nowhere to be found. I am specifically looking for photos and an excel file that I need desperately and that would have been updated within 3 weeks prior to my stupidity. These files have never been deleted, just saved. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Also, I need to recover my outlook express emails? Does recuva also recover emails? Any help is greatly appreciated.