Use Bak Files To Restore Damaged Outlook Express Dbx Files

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Is your Outlook Express data inaccessible from DBX files? Are you getting errors while trying to access data from Outlook Express account? Such problems generally occur due to DBX file corruption or the file header corruption. In such cases, you can not access your emails, notes, tasks, contacts, and other data from the DBX files and face critical data loss situations. At this point, you need to repair Outlook Express to get your mission-critical data back.

You should not archive the Outlook Express emails in default folders. They may get damaged as their size increases. You should create additional folder, also called special folders, to store emails and move data to them. It is also recommended to turn the email scanning off in anti-virus application. In case your DBX file gets damaged, even after taking all precautions, you need to perform DBX repair and restore data.

If you are running Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3, then you must be having a backup copy of Outlook Express data files in either Recycle Bin folder or message store, stored ...
... as bak files. If the backup copies are not available in message store, you need to restore them to message store. Follow the underwritten steps to do so:

1)Find the location of messages store folder. For this, go to Tools-> Maintenance-> Store Folder. Note down this location and navigate it to Windows Explorer. Click Start button, go to Run, and type path to it.
2)By default, the DBX files are hidden in Microsoft Windows XP. You must make them visible.
3)Close Microsoft Outlook Express.
4)Click the DBX files for missing or empty folders and drag them to Desktop. Minimize the message store.
5)Open Microsoft Outlook Express and create a new folder with same name as of bak file.
6)Rename the bak file with DBX.
7)If the messages are restored successfully, remove DBX files from desktop.

If you can not perform Outlook Express repair tool using the above steps, you need to opt for third-party applications to get your valuable data restored from the corrupted DBX files.

The Outlook Express repair tools help you to scan entire DBX file and extract as much data as possible from it. They are incorporated with interactive and simple graphical user interface to ensure easy and quick recovery in all DBX corruption scenarios.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook Express Recovery is the most advanced and efficient utility to ensure absolute recovery in all DBX corruption scenarios. It works well with Outlook Express 6.x and 5.x. The software restores all DBX file objects, such as emails, notes, contacts, tasks, journal, and attachments.