Just out of interest - I'm not looking to get the poor guy's question closed, just to get a feel for things on server fault - would 

[this question][1]

normally be considered a duplicate of

[this question][2]

on SF?

Because on SO, it probably would.

I'm not a 3k+ user on SF so I can't see how many close votes there are in place (which is really, really a missing feature by the way IMO. One should be able to see that kind of information.)

  [1]: http://serverfault.com/questions/130266/whats-the-best-programs-used-to-recover-a-deleted-pst-file
  [2]: http://serverfault.com/questions/50935/need-decent-undelete-utility-for-windows