I had been a hotmail.com user for years but had stopped using it around 2003 and then recently remembered about my Hotmail account and that it had a lot of my personal emails that I'd love to re-read. After rummaging through my old notes to find the password, I successfully logged in and to my horror found that ALL those emails where missing.

My guess is Microsoft team has some sort of archiving feature to empty old/inactive mail accounts, specially after the whole Hotmail thing has been rebranded as Outlook.com (it looks very hip and fresh I may add). Is there a way I can get those precious emails back?

Please help and thanks for any help I may get.

-Rahul.