I have had over 1000 emails on my hotmail account from before 2004 and they contained quite a lot of passwords, contacts and notices from communities I've been involved in.

Given that I cannot sign into my Live Messenger without it trying to overwrite my current Skype (with an OLDER version than I have), I have not checked my email in a couple of years. Most of my messages are facebook as well and I check that online.

I received no warning email to my backup email address to warn me of Hotmail becoming inactive, or that my messages would be deleted.

There is a lot of vital information in the archived emails I lost and I would like them back. Can someone from hotmail please sort this out?