If you're already reading this article, you surely encountered one of these horrible situations when you actually deleted an important email and realized how badly you need that information and all that you want for now is to get that email back. In order to stay calm, you should know that by deleting them from your deleted items folder doesn't actually mean a permanent delete from your hard drive. If you have the right tools, you can nowadays perform an email recovery from Microsoft Outlook. To succeed when performing the recovery, you should act as soon and quick as you can.
You surely wonder how that is possible, since you deleted your email from the deleted items folder too. The explanation is quite simple. Your deleted email is still there on your hard disk, but it is inaccessible since it is marked as empty space. In fact, we could say that it's a space marked to be used when needed for any data to be written. So, if there are no files that were written on the same part of your hard disk where your email was, then your deleted email is still out there. If you wait, your chances of recovering that email are low, since temporary files are written to the hard disk even when just navigating on the internet.
In order to recover every deleted email from Microsoft Outlook you have to be fast. Daily used applications often write temporary files on your hard disk, like Microsoft Word. Of course, if you receive any new email or so, the loss of your deleted email may be permanent, since every data of any application installed on your system is stored on your hard disk. If you have some free space on your hard drive, you may be lucky, since computers use that space first, and the marked space after. All you need is efficient email recovery software, like PST Walker. So, what can you do when you deleted important emails? Make sure you have free space on your hard disk, try not to download anything nor copy music from a CD. By keeping these "rules", you'll give yourself the chance to successfully recover your valuable emails.
Applications created for email recovery are a must in such cases. These programs can find your deleted emails. Next, you'll just see a list of what is recoverable. What I can tell you is how good PST Walker is in such cases. Not only it searches for your deleted emails, and lists them along with information about whether they are or aren't recoverable, but it easily recovers every email and attachment that is still recoverable. PST Walker is fully compatible with Microsoft Outlook, and it was specially designed and created to give the best results in deleted email recovery. You can also download a demo version of the application, just to see for yourself how it works, and this way there is no risk for you!
Did you loose any important email, or simply deleted it and then realized how important it was and how badly you needed that information? There is no reason to worry, since with PST Walker you can get your mails back within minutes.
See also:
Outlook PST Viewer
Repair corrupted Outlook data files
