Question about Outlook Express

My hotmail account switched over to outlook.com without my e-mails and folders all the itemes i had in the folder as gone god only knows where

please will you tell me how to get all my items back into the new outlook acc because i have tried to find this hotmail folder since it changed over the thing is i have not been able to reply to some of rny e-mails that i put in the hotmail folder before the switch over without dealing with it

hope i can get the plain english result answer to this mess soon it is doing my head in

thanks if you can solve this matter for me Pauline clarke. sorry to be a pest hope it's not to late and all my items have gone for good

or microsoft has deleated it.