Hi, a few years ago I upgraded my system and tried to simply boot the old hard drive on the new computer - this exercise failed miserably, and I could no longer boot the old drive even on the old hardware (though I could still access it from Bart PE and later on the new drive).  I then proceeded with the upgrade and did a fresh install on a new drive, leaving the old drive intact and loaded as a slave.

The reason I didn't reformat it was 1) laziness and 2) I had emails on it I wanted to preserve.  The reason I haven't done anything with it since is 1) laziness, 2) it wasn't critical, and 3) to some extent I forgot about the whole thing.

Today I decied to try to recover the emails.  The email client that I USED was Outlook Express.  I attempted to open the Outlook Express folder, where theoretically the emails should be stored, (drive:\documents and settings\username\application data\identities\{8494940489 etc}) but there is NOTHING there.  I enabled "VIEW HIDDEN files" and there is still nothing there.

I have done a full system scan for files ending in .dbx, .mbx, and .PST, and I'm getting absolutely zilch.  I had several hundred emails in Outlook Express; can anyone suggest an explanation as to where they went? or, more importantly, how to get them back?

Thanks for your time and any advice,
Rojer