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Recovering data of HD after quick format
Name: Salmaan Jawad Date: August 22, 2002 at 03:59:50 Pacific
Comment:
I formated the C:/ using quick format and installed windows 98. I then realised that i had stored around 10,000 mails in outlook express, which is lost. How do I recover the data ie the inbox.dbx file.
Name: Harry (by Hugger1) Date: August 22, 2002 at 05:18:06 Pacific
Reply:
Without buying a data recovery program or using a data recovery service, you won't be able to recover data after a HDD has be reformatted.
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Response Number 2
Name: hitech Date: August 22, 2002 at 10:10:53 Pacific
Reply:
Switch the machine off and avoid using it or running any utilities, the files may still be there ??. Try www.computer-recovery.com they are good at these things
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