If you have undergone a main PC crash and do not have any backups, your initial thought should be on the way to recovering as much data as likely. Retrieving your old Outlook Express mail from your PC will need that you swap out the hard drive in the PC into a working machine, allow you to pull as much data as likely from the old drive. This is a reasonably hard procedure that will require a few hours of your time.

Instructions

Step1

Take away the two screws positioned on the right-rear of your previous computer's box, and slide off the side panel.

Step2

Unplug the two cables from the reverse of your hard drive, which is positioned at the face of your machine close to the base of the case.

Step3

Take off the hard drive by taking out the two screws holding it into position, and pull the hard drive out of the component.

Step4

Toggle the jumper positioned on the rear of the hard drive to the "Slave" setting. Ask you’re in service handbook if you are uncertain of how to do this for your exacting drive model.

Step5

Open your fresh PC using the similar process that you used to open your previous PC.

Step6

Put in the hard drive into the drive cove at the face of the machine, and screw it into position.

Step7

Attach the IDE and power cables to the hard drive, shut the case and start on the PC.

Step8

Right click on the "Start," menu and choose the "Explore" option. You will observe the hard drive from the out of order PC as the "D" or "E" drive, let you to open your previous Outlook Express program and find your absent mail.