Which is more appropriate for Windows 98, 2nd edition--DBxtract or DBxpress?

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"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

> "sootygold" <sootygold@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F6D63935-FA93-4B76-94D0-863D42DF15A6@microsoft.com
> > please can anyone advise? I was compacting my emails in outlook
> > express yesterday when my pc crashed.When i re booted i found to my
> > horror that i had lost 6 months of emails from my inbox,and that
> > many others were left unreadable,saying the message had not been
> > downloaded. I am not able to view any of those emails and unable to
> > locate where any of the deleted mails have gone, so i have lost some
> > very important work. Please can anyone advise what on earth i can do
> > to retrieve the lost mails? thanks in advance !
>
> DBXpress (wwww.oehelp.com) can recover messages off the hard drive itself if
> they have not been overwritten subsequently to the DBX files being messed
> up.
>
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"Dancer" <Dancer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Which is more appropriate for Windows 98, 2nd edition--DBxtract or
> DBxpress?


DBXtract can recover messages from the old DBX files if you have them.
I don't believe DBXpress can recover from the hard drive in Win98.

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"Dancer" <Dancer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Which is more appropriate for Windows 98, 2nd edition--DBxtract or
> DBxpress?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Dancer

I'd suggest starting with copies of the DBX files, and working on those
rather than the originals. This will help prevent compounding the damage.

HTH
-pk


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>
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:
>
>> "sootygold" <sootygold@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F6D63935-FA93-4B76-94D0-863D42DF15A6@microsoft.com
>> > please can anyone advise? I was compacting my emails in outlook
>> > express yesterday when my pc crashed.When i re booted i found to my
>> > horror that i had lost 6 months of emails from my inbox,and that
>> > many others were left unreadable,saying the message had not been
>> > downloaded. I am not able to view any of those emails and unable to
>> > locate where any of the deleted mails have gone, so i have lost some
>> > very important work. Please can anyone advise what on earth i can do
>> > to retrieve the lost mails? thanks in advance !
>>
>> DBXpress (wwww.oehelp.com) can recover messages off the hard drive itself
>> if
>> they have not been overwritten subsequently to the DBX files being messed
>> up.
>>
>> --
>> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
>> Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
>> http://www.fjsmjs.com
>> Protect your PC
>> http://www.microsoft.com./athome/sec...t/default.aspx
>> http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>