DBXpress is by far the better. DBXtract is 8 years old and the detection
algorithm is not nearly as good as DBXpress. Its also several orders of
magnitude faster.

If your hard drive was only reformatted and not overwritten, then DBXpress
has an extract from disk feature that will bypass any file system and search
the disk clusters for messages. I tested by filling up 5 gigabyte partition
and then formatting it and then the program recovered 132,000 messages from
it. But that will depend on how many disk clusters that originally
contained message were overwritten with other stuff.

steve

"Ray10X10" vacantlot.com wrote in message
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Which application DBXpress or DBXtract is better . . .

1. to recover missing Emails when they do not show up in the Recycle Bin?
OE6 compressed my E-mails. I was not using my computer.
There were no programs running, and no interruptions.
When the compressing was finished my Inbox Emails from January to
March
were missing. Sent Emails were still present.
There were no Emails in my recycle bin.

2. to recover data from a hard drive that a computer store - Best Buy
formatted after failing to recover my data?
I had given them clear instructions to call me and to not do anything
to my
hard drive, but they changed shifts and formatted my hard drive.

Can one of these two applications still recover my missing Emails?

Can one of these two applications recover data from my formatted hard
drive?

Your knowledgeable advice will really be appreciated.
Thank You,
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Ray10X10