Outlook Express won't start

[Indiiana]

My laptop fell on the floor while I was writing a message in Outlook
Express 6. In the process windows shut down.
Now OE won't open. Guess it's because the database was not closed
properly.

Had no back up of my mailboxes. When I want to copy some of the .dbx
files, I get an error message data error cyclic redundancy check. And
the files will not be copied.

What should I do?

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[Kath Adams]

My laptop fell on the floor while I was writing a message in Outlook
Express 6. In the process windows shut down.
Now OE won't open. Guess it's because the database was not closed
properly.

Had no back up of my mailboxes. When I want to copy some of the .dbx
files, I get an error message data error cyclic redundancy check. And
the files will not be copied.

What should I do?

Thanks in advance for your help

Do a search of your drive for all files with the suffix of .dbx
Move them to another folder (on your desktop for ease of use.)
Now try and open OE.
If all is well, use the following to extract messages from the dbx
folders, you can then drag them back into an open instance of OE.
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

OE6 specific newsgroup.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

 

[indiiana]

Do a search of your drive for all files with the suffix of .dbx
Move them to another folder (on your desktop for ease of use.)
Now try and open OE.
If all is well, use the following to extract messages from the dbx
folders, you can then drag them back into an open instance of OE.
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx

OE6 specific newsgroup.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

Thanks, Kath.

Had done a search of all files with the suffix of .dbx but couldn't
copy some of them (got the error mentioned in my message).

Solved the problem buying OEMail-Recovery which allowed me to recover
all .dbx folders and save their contents, attachments included, into
eml messages in another part of the drive.
Then I renamed folders.dbx (OE index), inbox.dbx and outbox.dbx,
relaunched OE which then restarted OK and created fresh/empty new inbox
and outbox.
Then I recreated the folder structure in OE and pasted the saved eml
messages in the appropriate OE folders.

Took the whole day but it was worth it...

OEMail-Recovery worked wonders, much faster than advertised
(5Mb/minute). Only 3 messages out of over 10,000 could not be copied.
And when I selected them individually, they did get copied. So
recovered the whole lot. Pure miracle.

Learned from this mistake not to keep messages or subfolders in OE
inbox and outbox and move all messages straight away into other
folders...