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My old P2 350 finally crashed and I replaced it. I put the old drive in the new PC as a slave to get my data off of it. The only thing I can’t get is the Outlook Express contacts, I can get the inbox, sent items….blah blah blah, does anyone know how to retrieve the contacts, there doesn’t appear to be a place to get it from. If I could boot the drive up I could go into OE and export them , but I can’t do that.
Thanks in advance for your help.

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Find Your Windows Address Book
1. Click Start, and then click Search.
2. Click All files and folders.
3. In the What do you want to search for box, click All files and folders.
4. In the All or part of the file name type, *.wab, and then click Search.
5. When the search is finished, double-click each file to open it. When you have found the correct one (it will contain your Contact information), note the exact location and name of the file.

Import Your Windows Address Book
1. In Outlook Express, click the File menu.
2. Click Import, and then click Address Book.
3. Point the Look In field to the location that you noted in step #5 of the “Find Your Windows Address Book” section.
4. Click the .wab file, and then click Open.
5. Click OK to import the Address Book.

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The file that you are looking for is the Windows Address Book (*.wab) file. Check out this link for more info from MS:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010919601033.aspx

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