Thank You, Steve, for responding to my request for help.

I am so glad to hear that there is a possibility that I may be able to
recover some of my data from my hard drive that Best Buy formatted, instead
of, recovering the data.

I had contacted several hard drive manufacturers about data recovery, but
they only informed me about the professional data recovery services which
cost thousands of dollars -- out of my pay scale.

I even contacted several major universities and asked whether their computer
science labs would recover my data as an advanced computer student lab
project.
I was surprised to learn that they did not even teach data recovery in these
universities.

Steve, you are the only person who has offered the slightest hint of hope
for my data recovery. Thank You for taking time to share your knowledge with
me.

I will purchase DBXpress and hope that it will recover my missing E-mails,
and then try it on my formatted hard drive. After I got my hard drive back
from Best Buy, I did not install it back into my computer. So it has not
been used
since it was formatted. So, I am hoping that I will be able to recover my
data.
I will need to find time to re-install the hard drive and put DBXpress to
work on finding my data.

I do not understand why Best Buy could not recover my data.

Again, thank you, Steve for your help,
--
Ray10X10


"Steve Cochran" wrote:

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
...
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,
--
Ray10X10