HD failure now no emaill acc

Hello
Not sure which direction is should go in.
Should I forget the 30 odd years I have used the email address for and just set up a new account.
That's not really an option as I have some legal and business emails I would like to retrieve.

On top of that my old email address was an @virgin.net which is still working off my tablet [Galaxy 3] which is showing new arrivals and some limited old stuff but it was threatened in 2015 with being cut off.
As of this morning I am still getting Virgin emails to my tablet but nothing on my pc.

Can anybody untangle this mess I have got into please.
This all started when my HD failed which I had a recovery done but now don't have any email account showing on my repaired PC and I'm not sure how I should set that up again.

Thanks

So you just need to set an email client for virgin is that correct? Most email you can get via a web browser as well as client

Well I've not found that a simple thing to do.
Virgin were supposed to be shutting their email acc down on google and moving it over to a new Virgin MEDIA emailservice, but as I was still getting all my emails through on the old address I stayed put.

What seems to be happening I think, is that they have now shut the door on any new plain virgin mail acc and only allowing virgin media ones to join. This means a new acc name will not show up my old email as the old address will be different.

I think I should have been transferred over to my new virgin media acc but I can't find any note of this anywhere.

Maybe I should dig out a contact number for their virgin media email acc and ask them for help.

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Help | Virgin Media


- As I understand, your HDD has been recovered but you can't log in to your Virgin email acct ? But you can on your tablet ?

- Not sure, seems your old acct with Virgin should have been automatically merged with their new system, or should still be active unless they notified you differently.

- Virgin Help link above. Note their response may be delayed due to the COVID crisis. But if you can still access your acct on the tablet should be good ?

Thanks people I'll be trying out your suggested ways to resolve this.

Regards

Gents the email client was a Windows live mail version and I'm using Internet Explorer then google.
When I try to set it up nothing happens but I'm not sure I've added all the correct data in the correct places.

Bastet ,I'm not sure if I am a genuine Virgin media customer. As I said I have been using my old original email on @virgin.net
and it was working so I would like to gain access again to my old historical emails.
I do have a copy of an email from Virgin Media sent me showing account number and their reference number so I may well have an actual Media acc somewhere


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