Recovering deleted *.dbx files

Don't ask how, but I managed to delete all my *.dbx files and empty the
recycle bin. My hard drive was dying and somehow those files got
deleted as I was trying to transfer to the new hard drive. I have used
a couple of deleted file recovery programs to recover the dbx files,
but OE does not recognize them as valid message files when I try to
import them. I have tried reading these dbx files into the OE-Recovery
Tool (www.OEMailRecovery.com) but haven't had any success.

I'm thinking I'm screwed here, but if there's anyone out there that
might have a suggestion I figured it's worth a shot.

Thanks,
Tim

My DBXpress program will ignore the file system and analyze every disk
cluster on the hard drive for messages. Its the only program that will do
this and I think its your only chance of recovery. See
www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/

steve

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Don't ask how, but I managed to delete all my *.dbx files and empty the
recycle bin. My hard drive was dying and somehow those files got
deleted as I was trying to transfer to the new hard drive. I have used
a couple of deleted file recovery programs to recover the dbx files,
but OE does not recognize them as valid message files when I try to
import them. I have tried reading these dbx files into the OE-Recovery
Tool (www.OEMailRecovery.com) but haven't had any success.

I'm thinking I'm screwed here, but if there's anyone out there that
might have a suggestion I figured it's worth a shot.

Thanks,
Tim

Looks promising. Is there a demo version that will at least check to
see if messages are there? I don't have any problem paying the
shareware fee, but I would like to know that the messages are
recoverable. The other recovery programs I tried found the dbx files
and they weren't empty (a couple were of 10MB), but none of them found
any actual messages.

Thanks,
Tim

Steve Cochran wrote:
My DBXpress program will ignore the file system and analyze every disk
cluster on the hard drive for messages. Its the only program that will do
this and I think its your only chance of recovery. See
www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/

steve

No, there's no demo version. The program takes several hours to run the
extract from disk. There's no point in letting it run that long and at the
end saying it could have recovered 30,000 messages but didn't because if was
an evaluation version.

Also its important to run the program as soon as possible after the messages
were lost, as the disk clusters get overwritten.

steve

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Looks promising. Is there a demo version that will at least check to
see if messages are there? I don't have any problem paying the
shareware fee, but I would like to know that the messages are
recoverable. The other recovery programs I tried found the dbx files
and they weren't empty (a couple were of 10MB), but none of them found
any actual messages.

Thanks,
Tim

Steve Cochran wrote:
My DBXpress program will ignore the file system and analyze every disk
cluster on the hard drive for messages. Its the only program that will
do
this and I think its your only chance of recovery. See
www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/

steve