I had to build a new computer unexpectedly and so nothing was recently
backed up (including outlook's inbox emails)
When I built this new computer, I used a new sata hard drive, installed
XP and then later after everything was up and running and tested out
okay, added my old IDE pata hard drive and have been copying old files
I want/need to my new boot up drive.
I notice when I perused the old drive that the installed programs are
no longer functional but that just the data files are there. So I am
unable to open outlook on that drive and build a .pst file so I can
import it to the new drive's copy of outlook.
I've tried many things to retrieve those emails and have only been able
to get emails from .pst files I had backed up at various times.
If I can open outlook on the old drive, I can get to the files. So
what's the simplest and SAFEST way to do this? Can I go into bios and
change my boot order to boot from my old hard drive which is attached
on the IDE interface and then once I've built the .pst files, change
the boot order back to the new sata drive? Is there risk of harm to
anything to do that? Is there any other way to get to those files?
Thanks
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