Lost emails on crashed hard drive

[Cencotech]

Hi Folk,
I'm running an HP desktop computer with Windows 7 64bit. One day the the computer simply wouldn't boot. I took another hard drive that already had windows on it and put it in the computer. I used the crashed hard drive as a slave and found that a lot of the data files were still intact. I'm using Windows Live 2012 Email and I can't find any of the emails. The Windows Live folder is there but not the folders with the emails. ( I have transferred these emails to other computers in the past, so I think I'm looking in the right place)
So my question is... if I try to reinstall Windows on this corrupted drive will it wipe out the data files that are still there.

Thanks for the help

 

[paul1149]

1. Where are you looking?
   
2. It depends on how you do the install.

 

[Cencotech]

In the past I have found them in C:\users\mylogon\appdata\local\microsoft\windows live mail

But most of the folders are missing. my logon folder is missing. it looks like there is a Windows live folder, but I'm not sure what's in it.

Thanks for the help