What does your hard drive have to do with emails?
Presumably what’s on your hard drive is your work product (documents, spreadsheets, etc.).
Email system is something run by the IT department, assuming it’s her work email address.
This looks like a p*ss poor attempt to create a documented record of the hard drive crash and relate it to email for the uninformed.
Exactly
Give criminals enough time and they will concoct “evidence”.
PICK UP THE PACE.
Maybe it is an attempt to scrub the other files she kept on her hand drive that could have been very incriminating and not about the emails.