Lost 3 months of important emails please help!!!

[Guest]

After a hard drive failure I had all of my files recovered onto a new USB
hard drive.
After purchasing a new main HD for the computer. I re installed outlook and
attempted to install all of the .pst files from the usb hard drive.
Everything went in EXCEPT FOR THE LAST THREE MONTHS of EMAILS, TASKS,
CONTACTS etc.

This is a huge problem because it contains important documentation that will
protect me from a lawsuit.

Obviously my email was not backed up to a .pst file because only some of the
emails came over, yet prior to the crash these emails always came up. This
leads me to believe that there is some sort of temporary file where current
emails are stored BEYOND the .pst locations.

Can anyone help? Please?

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

There is no temporary file - everything is stored in the PST. I would
guess either that there wasn't complete recovery of the failed hard-drive,
or that the PST was damaged when the hard-drive failed. You might try
running the inbox repair tool (see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287497) and see if
that helps.