Is your computer an Open Invitation for HACKERS? Download free version of Sparktrust Inspector to identify vulnerabilities and problems on your computer (and even your WEBSITES)!
Download Top Email Recovery Tools
In earlier discussions, I have talked about recovering messages from Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express
You now know that it is indeed possible to recover data from Outlook PST files and Outlook DBX files using special email recovery software. But what about web-based emails such as Yahoo and Hotmail? Can you recover those?
If you're like me, you have several email accounts including a few web-based email addresses. For example, I have a Yahoo email account that I rarely use. In fact, it's been deactivated because I haven't logged in lately. Upon reactivating the account, I will find that all of my old Yahoo messages are long gone. Can I get them back? Maybe.
In addition to losing all web-based emails because of inactivity, deleting emails in order to make room for future messages is common. Free web-based email accounts offer limited storage space. It doesn't take too many emails with attachments to fill up the quota. While you can recover deleted web-based emails from the "trash" if they are still in the trash folder, once they're emptied from the trash, they're gone for good - or are they?
Is your computer an Open Invitation for HACKERS? Download free version of Sparktrust Inspector to identify vulnerabilities and problems on your computer (and even your WEBSITES)!
If you have opened a web-based email message and viewed it on your computer, you may be able to recover the message using data recovery software. This depends on if the HTML file is still hanging out in your Temporary Internet Files folder. Even if you've cleared the Temporary Internet Files folder, data recovery software may be able to dig deeper to where the data actually resides on your hard drive if no new data has overwritten it.
For example, you will need a data recovery tool such as ParetoLogic's Data Recovery Pro that allows you to search by file type (in this case HTML) and to specify the folder (Temporary Internet Files). This will bring up thousands of potential files so you might want to take advantage of the filtering features by entering a keyword such as "Yahoo" or "Hotmail" to narrow the results.
Related articles
What programs can I download to help me find deleted emails?
Does reformatting completely destroy emails?
Can I recover web based emails or only MS Outlook?
Can I recover lost emails?
What types of files are recoverable?
What are the differences between Data Recovery products?
Im trying to recover a file, what are root privileges?
Are there ways to delete files permanently?
How can you delete a file and it still exists?
Are files left after I delete them?
What are the steps for recovering lost data or files?
Is your computer an Open Invitation for HACKERS? Download free version of Sparktrust Inspector to identify vulnerabilities and problems on your computer (and even your WEBSITES)!
Celeste Stewart | May 8th, 2008
You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.
