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Compacting OE messages works 95% of the time.  When the dbx files get large, it can make a chunk of messages go away.

Outlook Express will prompt you to compact your messages every 100 times the program is opened and closed.  See the attached photo to learn how and what registry key to go to reset the counter.  You will need to do this once you start getting asked if you want to compact messages.

I do not know of a way to recover or repair the missing messages other than to use a backup to restore them. 

Kurt Rein
Mobile Computer Wizard
858 345-0382 Cel
619 255-1215 Office
www.mobilecomputerwizard.com

This is an easy USB makeable download for computers that boot off of a USB device.

The file is called ‘Make bootable usb.zip’ and it’s in the online Utilities folder.

The reason I needed it was to do a BIOS update on a PC that wouldn’t boot to windows.  Many BIOS update programs run off windows or only a bootable DOS device.  I copied the BIOS I downloaded from Dell onto the thumb drive after I made it into a bootable device.

Of course, adjust the BIOS on the computer to boot to a USB device and also, the HP installer to make the boot USB device will ask you to point to the DOS directory for making it boot, that is in the same directory as what you downloaded, so don’t look too hard.  It just needs the ‘command’ file to boot.

After it booted to the DOS thumb drive, I just typed the name of the BIOS update file and it worked great.

Kurt Rein
Mobile Computer Wizard
858 345-0382 Cel
619 255-1215 Office
www.mobilecomputerwizard.com

This was done on a 2006 ish XP Home Dell Dimension 9150 with SATA and an onboard RAID controller.  All I wanted to do was reinstall XP Home on to a single SATA drive.  A standard XP boot cd wants  you to load SATA drivers off a floppy and that is a giant pain if you don’t have a floppy installed.  If you do not, basically the computer boots off the CD, then gets to set up and tells you to push F3 because NO DRIVE WAS FOUND.  I double and triple checked, used multiple drives and other means like the BIOS, and a Hiren’s CD verified that the SATA drive was correctly installed. 

Bottom line, the SATA drivers needed to be loaded into the XP CD.  A free program call nLite allows you to add the SATA drivers that you can download from a different PC and add them to the XP install CD.

http://paparadit.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-sata-hard-drive-with-windows.html

Here is a link to download n-lite   , also for Wizards it’s in the utilities folder in out online directory, I’m being sly here as to not make our directory public.

http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

I added the SATA drivers, integrated them into the XP boot CD and did nothing more than boot off the modified XP Home CD and now I’m in business!

Kurt Rein
Mobile Computer Wizard
858 345-0382 Cel
619 255-1215 Office
www.mobilecomputerwizard.com