Computer Restored - Did I lose my inbox?

[Marc]

Hello,

I recently had to restore my computer due to an Anti-Virus software that
hosed up my system... GO FIGURE!!

When I did, I lost my entire inbox, which had a ton of info.

To make matters worse, I couldn't find my original MS Office Licensing
package, so I ended up Installing 2007 Trial Version.

Is there any way to find and restore my inbox as it was in Ver 2003 prior to
the restore of my PC?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I recently had to restore my computer due to an Anti-Virus software that
hosed up my system... GO FIGURE!!

When I did, I lost my entire inbox, which had a ton of info.

To make matters worse, I couldn't find my original MS Office Licensing
package, so I ended up Installing 2007 Trial Version.

Is there any way to find and restore my inbox as it was in Ver 2003 prior
to
the restore of my PC?

Depends. If you reformatted your hard drive, you've lost everything
permanenetly. That's why you make periodic backups - so that if you do need
to restore your PC, you'll have your data.

 

[Marc]

Brian,

I don't think the restore is a reformat. All of my documents and pix and
files are still on the computer. But, it restores the PC back to the original
factory settings, including erasing / removing programs that were not
originally installed. Perhaps it kills all .exe files at the same time??

How would I go back and find "the file(s)" that contained my inbox and/or
contacts and get them back as either my current active inbox or... place them
into folders?? I think, but an not positive, that the file is there.

 

[DL]

You would need to uninstall the trial then reinstall Office 2003 from your
cd's
All OL data is contained within the pst file, by default named outlook.pst,
only Outlook can open/read the pst