How do I recover mdb files?

[mfrankl]

I reformatted and reinstalled Windows - without saving my email (an mdb file). I've run the recovery and have found and saved to cd 6 access files, but how do I put them back together?

[GDH]

Are you able to open the files with Microsoft Access? When you copy them off the CD, try changing the file properties to non read only.

[mfrankl]

I don't have Access, but I tried Open Office's Base - didn't work. I then used Avanstar's QuickView Plus and I can see the files, but most of them are non-sensical. I tried switching to a different text encoding (ASCII and Windows looked the best), but that wasn't much better. What I see are things like this:

y7Xw?@Ta=Uf@M[&lj]",?ddpD+!t~eq,tC~Y
>$.7-A7W6~@,t_>/Lr<Y$(LMG6"D7mO I~ 0v?V9m~feo
mn0#odICHaH:GD|fsdb4'.tT*0@d^."CD#v0_;<oL2tP*#
uq$wqz6wgH[N
2ls<tNO&h1rs7 M[l^K+l{1gy[}0|6]
w6n=
PM,hl;4^v <$H"mwA
f_9v,W@BP1Q`2W? W2bKot$ex6y2Y_/G!JGY6orRcbfh_:h4R9FX
0>Q?vn8DL6U+F$A.V&?AW53LgJx6=

Since these are supposed to be (I HOPE!) email files and/or folders, I may need to call Earthlink to get some help. However, when I first called them, they knew less than I! And there's a slight communication problem.

Any suggestions?