Hi,

generally what we used to do in our company is install outlook 2007 and set the default location of the pst file to d: drive . and now the problem is that from the administrator profile i logged in and for that pst also i gave the default location as d: drive and now the file has been overwritten with the user mails . i tried restoring and even tried to recover but still getting the overwritten one . can anyone tell me is it possible to get the previous mail.

StaticFX

not unless a backup was created. otherwise, sorry to say.. its gone.

04091985

not even with the help of any recovery tools

StaticFX

No. sorry
heres how it works.

when windows deletes a file, all it does is "mark" the item deleted. its still there but just ignored by windows. so, you could run a program to recover it.

when a file is overwritten, there is no copy made, it writes right over it. think of it this way.

take a piece of paper. write a word on it in pencil. now erase the word and write another word over the same spot. previous word is GONE. now.. if you were to just draw a line thru it and write the new word below it.... you could still get the first word back. get it?

so, sorry. no. is the D drive local to the pc or is it a shared drive? if its a shared drive then check with your IT dept quick to see how often they do backups.