How to Recover Deleted Microsoft Outlook Files for free?

  • Your computer crashed and you lost your Outlook e-mails.
  • You deleted an Outlook e-mail that you need to recover.
  • You lost an Outlook e-mail due to a virus infection or other system failure.

While most emails lost in the Outlook mail client is caused by accidental deletion of emails, a large percentage of .PST files getting corrupted due to conflicting programs. Upgrading Microsoft Outlook versions can result in this problem. Some anti-virus scanning programs actually damage PST files. And of course sneaky viruses themselves are a major cause of damaged PST files.

If you use Microsoft Outlook as your business or personal email system, and you lost your Outlook e-mails due to the above factors, how to recover deleted Outlook e-mails becomes urgent. This article will let you know how to recover deleted or lost Outlook e-mails.

Outlook PST files

PST files are the primary file extension used in Outlook. They are used for archiving and storing data such as emails, contacts, calendars, journals, appointments etc. These .PST files as used in the Personal Folders files. These are large encrypted non-text files that store all mailboxes, schedules, contacts and all other information in Microsoft Outlook.

PST file recovery software

EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition can easily recover previously deleted Microsoft Outlook e-mails (.pst, .msg, .dbx and more) from hard drives and removable disks. The file recovery software will search and locate deleted Microsoft Outlook PST and WAB (Windows address book) and PAB (Personal Address Book) files which have been emptied from or bypassed the Windows Recycle Bin. But it will NOT recover individual messaged deleted from within Microsoft Outlook.

Feature:

  • Recover deleted outlook email files with one click.
  • Able to recover deleted and formatted outlook Email files.
  • Supports all versions of FAT and NTFS and regenerates files even from lost, deleted partitions and from reformatted disks in Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/Windows 7.
  • Autosave allows continuing recovery, terminated at any stage.

Where are PST files located in my computer?

The default location of .pst file in Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 is

drive:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Default location of .pst file in Windows Vista / 7 / 2008 is

drive:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook.

To recover delete or lost Outlook Email files, follow these steps:

1. Click the "Deleted File Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

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2. You can see the list of all logical volumes found on your computer.

3. Choose one of them and press the "NEXT" button (if you are familiar with file system details, you can change "Option" before pressing the "NEXT" button).

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4. Data Recovery Wizard will read file system on selected volume.

5. This step will launch the Building directory interface to search the deleted files on the selected volume.

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6. After this scanning is finished, you'll see file/folder tree.

7. You can click "Find file by name" or "Search files" to see search outlook email files.

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8. Select the file or folder that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button.

9. Select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

Note: You can also recover lost email files from Raw folders.

If the outlook email files are stored in the volume which you formatted, deleted or damaged, you should use the "Complete Recovery" or "Partition Recovery" to recover lost outlook email files.

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