Outlook Recovery tips
- How to use Outlook Recovery?
- Do not write anything to the drive where you've lost your data!
- My messages are very important and I should know that I will not damage them during recovery.
- Can I restore the data from hard drive connected by USB adapter?
Question: How to use Outlook Recovery?
Answer: If you've lost your Outlook Messages, SoftAmbulance Outlook Recovery is what you're looking for. This powerful solution can help you recover your email in either email database damage or complete drive crash, you can expect effective recovery of your messages along with attachments. Open the product, select the way of recovery that suits best your situation, select the place to scan and wait until it's completed. You will be able to browse your email folders, check and preview the messages and attachments. To recover, select what you need, click to recover and select the destination place which can be either Outlook Folder or a place on your drive where all the messages will be placed as separate EML files, which you will be able to export in where you want later.
Question: Do not write anything to the drive where you've lost your data!
Answer: It's important to keep the source drive untouched, as all the lost and deleted data is contained in the sectors marked as free, and all the new files can be written over your lost data making it unrecoverable. If you can, just remove the drive from the system until you're ready for restore lost data, as Windows also keeps its volume information on hard drive and may cause further damage to your lost messages as well.
Question: My messages are very important and I should know that I will not damage them during recovery.
Answer: Our product does not perform any write operations to the source drive during scanning, so it can't cause further damage to your lost data. Also make sure you are not saving your messages to the same partitions from where you're recovering them – create another Outlook base on another partition to place there recovered messages, or just export the messages to EML files to another drive. After all messages are restored, just move the messages where you want.
Question: Can I restore the data from hard drive connected by USB adapter?
Answer: While you can use USB adapters for Hard Drives, it's not recommended, as they often distort read request results in case of damaged data, which is necessary for recovery procedure. When hard drive is connected by internal SATA or ATA, you can expect higher speeds and more complex and accurate results in mail recovery. The same thing we can say about NAS, if possible, extract hard disk drive from the rack and connect to the motherboard directly.