hello and welcome to eightForums . me thinks you are out of luck ,whats gone is gone .But I also think when you manually put the accts back into Live Mail. any emails that are save on the Email Server will download again ,but that I think depends on the mail server ,it it set to keep emails on sever for a period of time .again iam not 100% sure on this ,I do use live mail ,but don't remember what happens when I do format and reload windows ,and setup live mail again .I started backing up my accts and messages the past 2years ,so as I said I forget what actually happens when I setup the accts again . good luck