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    Unhappy hidden folders

    hello everybody.i am trying to recover some e-mails from a hard disk which wont boot,i cant repair with xp repair function.the problem is that the folders are hidden and as i cannot bott to the operating system,i cannot make them visible.any ideas how to see these folders on this other disk.any help greatly appreciated as e-mails about my upcoming holiday are on there.thanks

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    • nichomach's system
      • Motherboard:
      • Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3
      • CPU:
      • AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 95W
      • Memory:
      • 16GB DR3
      • Storage:
      • 1x250GB Maxtor SATAII, 1x 400GB Hitachi SATAII
      • Graphics card(s):
      • Zotac GTX 1060 3GB
      • PSU:
      • Coolermaster 500W
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      • Coolermaster Elite 430
      • Operating System:
      • Windows 10
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      • Dell 20" TFT
      • Internet:
      • Virgin Media Cable
    Can you boot to a working disk? Is the disk on which the files reside visible if you do? If so, then open a command prompt and use "attrib -h -r -s [drive letter of busted drive]:\*.* /S /D".

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    were the emails stored in outlook express or microsoft outlook?

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