Re Loading Contacts For Emails

[Animals4me]

Can anyone help please....Went to send email and usually type in first letter of name and choices come up but now see have no contacts and entire address book gone.So manually typed in address,emailled and wouldn't send so saved as draft.Then suddenly it sent not once but twice.
But won't let me send email.Have tried re booting but not helped.
Sending on laptop.Had previously printed so all working.
Please can someone tell me in easy steps how to restore function and my address book and to be able to email again.
Thanks
windows 8

[pinkyboyid]

What mail client are you using?

You could initially try running a Windows process to check for any disk file errors, just in case there is any potential file corruption:-

- RIGHT-Click on the 'Windows Start' button, bottom left hand corner of screen and select 'Command Prompt, Run as Administrator'

- Click 'Yes' to the security message prompt

- A blank window will open labeled as 'Administrator: Command Prompt'.

- Within the 'Command prompt' window using the keyboard type the following character text "Chkdsk /F" and then press the keyboard enter key.

- In response to the Windows message "Y/N" question that appears on screen, type "Y" and press the the enter key.

- Now restart the computer and when Windows reboots it will commence a check disk operation and automatically attempt to fix any File disk errors it may find. Let it run which could take some time depending on what it finds.

- When the process is completed Windows will restart automatically where you can then test to see if the problem is fixed.