Hey everyone,
I hope these types of questions can be posted in the lounge, if not Mod's please feel free to delete it. :blush:

My computer today was acting up, it was lagging and stalling a bit. So at first I rebooted it and it was still lagging, so I shut it down. After being off for a couple mins I restarted it and left, I came back about an hour later, logged in (Win 2000) and noticed that some of my applications that were kept open had been lost. For example, I have Apache installed on my computer. When the computer logged in it could not find the ApacheMonitor file which loads at startup. I then opened up Outlook Express and ALL my emails - inbox, outbox, and deleted were GONE. Is there anyway to get them back? I've been told no because I'm on a FAT32 HD. The thing is that my computer did not lockup, it just lagged a bit, I did no force bootdowns. If you need anymore information please let me know. I hope I did not lose all the emails.... :(

do a search on the hard drive for *.dbx - that will show you if they are still there or not.

Hey,
I did that earlier today. I have the .dbx files but they are not the old ones. These are the news ones Outlook Express created after I sent an email today. Will a recovery software be able to retrieve the software? I may bring the computer into a tech shop to see if they can recover the files because i had some important emails.

yep, if the files that are available are not your old ones, you will need to try some undelete software - like here. (http://www.lc-tech.co.uk/undelete.htm)

I know there are others, but this one seems to give you a free trial, so maybe you can recover.