Recover emails that have been overwritten

[Asha]

After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While checking the
email account settings, new emails were downloaded.

Inadvertantly, I overwrote the current PST file with a back up taken before
the PC format. As a result, the new emails that were downloaded were lost.
Any way to recover these? Does outlook log in any other file atleast header
information for emails that have been received?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Unless you configured your account to leave a copy on the server; they're
gone.

 

[DL]

If you are saying you restored a backup which overwrote the existing pst
then no

 

[VanguardLH]

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After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While
checking the
email account settings, new emails were downloaded.

Inadvertantly, I overwrote the current PST file with a back up taken
before
the PC format. As a result, the new emails that were downloaded were
lost.
Any way to recover these? Does outlook log in any other file atleast
header
information for emails that have been received?

Is there a copy of the new .pst file that got overwritten in the
Recycle bin (as a .pst or .bak file)?

 

[Gordon]

After formatting my home PC, I reinstalled Outlook 2007. While checking the
email account settings, new emails were downloaded.

Inadvertantly, I overwrote the current PST file with a back up taken before
the PC format. As a result, the new emails that were downloaded were lost.
Any way to recover these? Does outlook log in any other file atleast header
information for emails that have been received?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The answer to your question is no.
However, if you had done some research before "restoring" the pst file,
on this and other Outlook groups, you would have now not only had your
old email, but all the new ones as well. You are very lucky that the
process of overwriting the existing file has not (seemingly) corrupted
your mail profile.

 

[K. Orland]

For future reference:

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm

 

[Asha]

Unfortunately, no......

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Is there a copy of the new .pst file that got overwritten in the
Recycle bin (as a .pst or .bak file)?

 

[Pat Willener]

You don't need to open Outlook to check or modify your email account
settings. Just use the Control Panel's Mail applet.