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by johnjackson1132 1 view

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Alright, a computer died, HD was good, but still dead. I got a new PC for the lady, and I have recovered all of her data files, now....her Outlook files are vitally important. Contacts not so much, but the tons of e-mails, release forms, saved documents etc...I have researched it, checked the temporary folders, with hidden folders enabled, I find Application Data/Microsoft Office, but I cannot locate these .PST files. Anyone know how I can take the new Computer, with new XP...and mirror her Outlook on there excactly as it was before. Data/Windows style, not wanting to use any programs.

Some places can do HD recovery, where they take an old HD, and mirror it onto a new HD. I would love to do that, but not sure how to go about the process. Norton Ghost, seems to only work on the client machine it is installed.

I downloaded Norton Ghost, installed it on one of my workstations, made a copy of the HD, but not sure how to re-instate it onto the new PC.

Perhaps installing Norton on the new PC, then doing a recovery, using the file on my workstation, I saved? Any thoughts?

Thanks

Michael

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by hal 9000

But if it's some form of XP and a recent XP or latter version of Office the .PST Files should be in Documents Settings/ Account holders Name/Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft/A Alpha Numeric String/ then Outlook.

You can open Outlook and import the files directly into the program from the old HDD by clicking on Files/Import Outlook whatever and then the above listing but you'll need to have the Hidden folders un-hidden.

It shouldn't be any harder than that and you can also import her address book in the same way but it will be at Documents Settings/Account Name/Application Data/Microsoft/Address Book.

though if the OS or version of Office is prior to the XP version they may be in slightly different places so you can search the drive for the necessary files.

When I have this happen I fit the HDD to a USB Caddy and use it that way to recover the data from. If it's important I then sell the customer the enclosure and give them their old HDD back and allow them to use the Old HDD as a Backup storage area.

This is basic Data Recovery Stuff really.

Col

by anishks

In windows 2000 and XP normally the outlook data is in c:\document and settings\user\localsettings\applicationdata\microsoft\outlook.The localsettings folder is hidden

In outlook take file on that u can see import and export then select import from another program or file then select Personal folder file(.pst)click next again click next agian click next and then finish icluding your addressbook it will come.

by kate

I had this problem and the suggested solutions were no help....but I did solve it so better late than never and hope it might help others if not you.

See Microsoft's knowledge support base article 303337: from here I did a search from the start menu and in the file name box entered *.pst and produced a result showing a large data file called Outlook as well as some smaller ones. Double clicking on the icon created an email with the file "outlook.pst" attached. I saved that file to My documents. When I then went into Outlook and repeated the import instruction, I selected the saved file in My Docs and was then able to specify exactly which part of the old outlook data I wanted - everything was there.

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