Why not perform my email recovery?
While many users have successfully recovered their emails using software utilities, many have also not been successful.
Our findings reveal that an unsuccessful email recovery results from user errors, or from a physical hard drive failure.
While email recovery utilities are inexpensive, consider this before you attempt your recovery. If your hard drive is failing, then performing an email recovery using software is dangerous. The time spent trying to recover the email files should have been used to perform a forensic image recovery, or targeting the needed files to perform the email recovery.
Unfortunately, the user typically can not determine if their hard drive is physically damaged or logically corrupted.
Another issue is that the user expected better email recovery results as indicated by the email recovery utility. Typically, the user gets one shot to get it right, as there are no do over´s unless you have made forensic images.
If your Exchange server has failed, we highly suggest you do not risk your exchange server or emails.
Experimenting with exchange server is risky if attempted by an individual without exchange server data recovery experience.