importing email message folders to Outlook or Outlook Express

[Guest]

I had a hard disk crash last week and had to reinstall everything on a new
disk!!
I have a back up of my Outlook Express 6 message folders on a back up CD
from the week before last. These message folders have names end ".dbx" Such
as "Clients.dbx".
I have followed the instructions on the Microsoft website but they do not
work. When I try to import these messages into my "clean" copy of Outlook
Express, using Import>from Store Folder> etc it just imports the recent few
emails as duplicates which have been downloaded since the new Outlook Express
has been installed.
I need to be able to read my backed up emails and import them. I don't mind
migrating to Outlook if I have to. But that has the same results.
Please Help

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I had a hard disk crash last week and had to reinstall everything on
a new disk!!
I have a back up of my Outlook Express 6 message folders on a back up
CD from the week before last. These message folders have names end
".dbx" Such as "Clients.dbx".
I have followed the instructions on the Microsoft website but they do
not work. When I try to import these messages into my "clean" copy of
Outlook Express, using Import>from Store Folder> etc it just imports
the recent few emails as duplicates which have been downloaded since
the new Outlook Express has been installed.
I need to be able to read my backed up emails and import them. I
don't mind migrating to Outlook if I have to. But that has the same
results.
Please Help

Outlook can't import it direct from files, it only imports from OE. Have
you asked over in microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general?