Messages deleted on HotMail: can I get them back somehow?

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i want my contact list back i have use my acount for over 2 years and now when i opened it again its all gone... how can i get it back i have important contacts in there

Altho I now know that deleted emails cannot be retrieved, when I looked in my recyle bin and found a .bak file which I think contained the deleted (desperately important) hotmail draft. I restored it but don't know where it went if it worked. A complete and onerous search of the computer comes up with nothing.

Is there a chance it could be "hiding" somewhere on my computer? (MSN support has been of no help)

Thanks.....Barb
PS I did read your article, but still wonder.....

Hi,
I have "lost" an email of mine....it has just dissapeared, I know it sounds really strange, but I cannot find it anywhere and I definately did not delete it. I did all the relevant searches..
Surely that cannot just happen??

Confused...

I just logged into my Hotmail after not accessing it for about six months and everything is gone... my emails, my archives, my contacts... everything. I am astonished and upset. How could this have happened? Is it the new Windows Live interface that did this?? So many years of valuable information is gone it appears... HELP!!!!!!!!!

I thought I lost mine too because I did the same thing. I deleted some emails and folders that I was sorry I did. I was suprised to find out though, that when I went to my email through Windows Live (that you can open up through the email tab in msn messenger) they were still there! So if you have msn messenger, try to open up your email icon on that and you might just find a nice suprise.

yes! you might be able to recover some of your deleted messages on the windowslive help team. Here you have to create an account and you will be able to post your problem and they will try to help you.

the link is: www.windowslivehelp.com
:)

Leo's got it all wrong, as commenter above posted, you can get deleted messages back if you ask the help team fast enough, before the messages are purged from the servers. no idea how long that takes, but i got mine back bcause i asked thm 24 hours after I had deleted everything.

All wrong? I'm glad you got your messages back, and perhaps there's some hope, but the vast majority of people in your situation who try what you've tried are unsuccessful. In most cases and with most free services, one you delete something it's gone. Besides, it's a much safer assumption to make.

12-Sep-2009

Please advice, i received and email im my hotmail inbox, i clicked on it to open and a message came up "can not be opened" and the email disappeared, why ? what happened hear?, can i get this email back?

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