I know I'm an iD10T but that's neither here nor there... I was working late
the other night moving things around, making archives and deleting old stuff
and accidentally deleted the wrong logical drive; the one that housed my OE
store folders... Major OOOPS! Of course, now I can't even get OE6 to load
up so I can just start with a new store folder(s). I need help please -
where do I go from here? I don't think I can "un-delete" the logical drive,
but in case someone out there has a miracle, I haven't re-created a new
logical drive yet (left it unallocated for now in hopes it is some how
recoverable). I'm running XP Pro w/ SP2 and the latest updates. My machine
may be older, but it works darn it! I'd like to keep it that way, so only
serious replies please. Thanks!

In your case, the only real option may be a 3rd party utility such as
DBXpress which can extract from disk, all messages on the hard drive that
have not been overwritten. Read about it at www.oehelp.com and decide if
the stored messages are worth the cost.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only.
Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.

"dirtycar74" wrote in message
...
I know I'm an iD10T but that's neither here nor there... I was working late
the other night moving things around, making archives and deleting old
stuff
and accidentally deleted the wrong logical drive; the one that housed my
OE
store folders... Major OOOPS! Of course, now I can't even get OE6 to
load
up so I can just start with a new store folder(s). I need help please -
where do I go from here? I don't think I can "un-delete" the logical
drive,
but in case someone out there has a miracle, I haven't re-created a new
logical drive yet (left it unallocated for now in hopes it is some how
recoverable). I'm running XP Pro w/ SP2 and the latest updates. My
machine
may be older, but it works darn it! I'd like to keep it that way, so only
serious replies please. Thanks!

"dirtycar74" wrote in message
...
I know I'm an iD10T but that's neither here nor there... I was working late
the other night moving things around, making archives and deleting old
stuff
and accidentally deleted the wrong logical drive; the one that housed my
OE
store folders... Major OOOPS! Of course, now I can't even get OE6 to
load
up so I can just start with a new store folder(s). I need help please -
where do I go from here? I don't think I can "un-delete" the logical
drive,
but in case someone out there has a miracle, I haven't re-created a new
logical drive yet (left it unallocated for now in hopes it is some how
recoverable). I'm running XP Pro w/ SP2 and the latest updates. My
machine
may be older, but it works darn it! I'd like to keep it that way, so only
serious replies please. Thanks!



To fix things so that OE will start:

Go to Start | Run and type
regedit
and press Enter.

In the left pane navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Micro soft\Outlook Express\5.0
Where {GUID} is that big long number.

In the right pane right click on "Launch Inbox" and select Modify.
Change the one (1) to a zero (0).

Close Regedit and try OE.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
"Anyone who prefers security over freedom deserves neither."

It is already set to zero (0). That doesn't seem to be the right thing
either then... Sorry. Maybe I need to screen capture the error? would that
help?

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

"dirtycar74" wrote in message
...
I know I'm an iD10T but that's neither here nor there... I was working late
the other night moving things around, making archives and deleting old
stuff
and accidentally deleted the wrong logical drive; the one that housed my
OE
store folders... Major OOOPS! Of course, now I can't even get OE6 to
load
up so I can just start with a new store folder(s). I need help please -
where do I go from here? I don't think I can "un-delete" the logical
drive,
but in case someone out there has a miracle, I haven't re-created a new
logical drive yet (left it unallocated for now in hopes it is some how
recoverable). I'm running XP Pro w/ SP2 and the latest updates. My
machine
may be older, but it works darn it! I'd like to keep it that way, so only
serious replies please. Thanks!



To fix things so that OE will start:

Go to Start | Run and type
regedit
and press Enter.

In the left pane navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Micro soft\Outlook Express\5.0
Where {GUID} is that big long number.

In the right pane right click on "Launch Inbox" and select Modify.
Change the one (1) to a zero (0).

Close Regedit and try OE.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
"Anyone who prefers security over freedom deserves neither."

Not sure if you fully understand the problem; I didn't delete the *.dbx
files, I deleted the DRIVE. Additionally, before I did this, I attempted to
move the OE strore folder to another location, hence why I thought it was
safe to delete the drive. Does this make a difference in your suggestion?

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

In your case, the only real option may be a 3rd party utility such as
DBXpress which can extract from disk, all messages on the hard drive that
have not been overwritten. Read about it at www.oehelp.com and decide if
the stored messages are worth the cost.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only.
Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.

"dirtycar74" wrote in message
...
I know I'm an iD10T but that's neither here nor there... I was working late
the other night moving things around, making archives and deleting old
stuff
and accidentally deleted the wrong logical drive; the one that housed my
OE
store folders... Major OOOPS! Of course, now I can't even get OE6 to
load
up so I can just start with a new store folder(s). I need help please -
where do I go from here? I don't think I can "un-delete" the logical
drive,
but in case someone out there has a miracle, I haven't re-created a new
logical drive yet (left it unallocated for now in hopes it is some how
recoverable). I'm running XP Pro w/ SP2 and the latest updates. My
machine
may be older, but it works darn it! I'd like to keep it that way, so only
serious replies please. Thanks!

Assuming you still have access to the "deleted" drive (or are you saying you
wiped out a partition on the drive), DBXpress can recover info from the old
drive, even after formatting the drive. It is the only inexpensive tool I'm
aware of that will do so. Read about it and decide:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only.
Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.


"dirtycar74" wrote in message
...
Not sure if you fully understand the problem; I didn't delete the *.dbx
files, I deleted the DRIVE. Additionally, before I did this, I attempted
to
move the OE strore folder to another location, hence why I thought it was
safe to delete the drive. Does this make a difference in your suggestion?

"Jim Pickering" wrote:

In your case, the only real option may be a 3rd party utility such as
DBXpress which can extract from disk, all messages on the hard drive that
have not been overwritten. Read about it at www.oehelp.com and decide if
the stored messages are worth the cost.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only.
Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.

"dirtycar74" wrote in message
...
I know I'm an iD10T but that's neither here nor there... I was working
late
the other night moving things around, making archives and deleting old
stuff
and accidentally deleted the wrong logical drive; the one that housed
my
OE
store folders... Major OOOPS! Of course, now I can't even get OE6 to
load
up so I can just start with a new store folder(s). I need help
please -
where do I go from here? I don't think I can "un-delete" the logical
drive,
but in case someone out there has a miracle, I haven't re-created a new
logical drive yet (left it unallocated for now in hopes it is some how
recoverable). I'm running XP Pro w/ SP2 and the latest updates. My
machine
may be older, but it works darn it! I'd like to keep it that way, so
only
serious replies please. Thanks!

The first error I get ( a screen-capture is available for viewing at the
following URL) is:
http://tinyurl.com/rp2s4

After I click [OK], the following error comes up (again, screen capture
available for viewing at the URL below):
http://tinyurl.com/m5tm8

This additional information might be helpful, but I'm not sure.

Thanks!

That error is consistent with a corrupt or missing message store folder.
Since you've already said you destroyed the folder where the messages were
stored, I'm not surprised. Try Frank Saunder's suggestion to delete the
affected registry key.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
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Please provide feedback so that others may be helped.


"dirtycar74" wrote in message
...
The first error I get ( a screen-capture is available for viewing at the
following URL) is:
http://tinyurl.com/rp2s4

After I click [OK], the following error comes up (again, screen capture
available for viewing at the URL below):
http://tinyurl.com/m5tm8

This additional information might be helpful, but I'm not sure.

Thanks!

Hello Frank
I think your clock/date is a out a bit :-o
28/05/2006 22:36
Antioch

"antioch" wrote in message
...
Hello Frank
I think your clock/date is a out a bit :-o
28/05/2006 22:36
Antioch


Thanks. I just installed Vista on that machine a few days ago and didn't
notice that the date was wrong.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
"Anyone who prefers security over freedom deserves neither."