Trying to recover outlook email files after OS failure.

[Guest]

My Operating System became corrupted on my PC - Office 2003 was loaded on the
same drive. I installed a new primary drive and moved the old drive to a
slave location. File structure is mostly accessible.

Where are the Outlook Personal Folders and Contact list stored in Outlook
2003? I am hoping that I can restore all my archived emails and my active
contacts.

 

[Guest]

Hi

It should be in "documents & seetings\user name\local settings\application
data\microsoft\outlook" folder.You will need to import old personal folder's
data to your current drive i.e where your O/S is installed currently.

 

[Guest]

I am unable to locate either a local settings or application settings folder.
I seem to remember these folders from Outlook 2000, but not 2003. I am
running Office / Outlook 2003.

 

[Guest]

I've been staring at this thing too long today. Forgot I hadn't turned on
hidden and system files. Once that was on I found the folder and am back up.

Thank you!!

 

[Guest]

Open outlook, go to file - import & export - select import form another
program or file - say next - select personal folder file (.pst) - say next -
browse to the location where your old .pst file is located - say next -
select whatever you want to export.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Open outlook, go to file - import & export - select import form
another program or file - say next - select personal folder file
(.pst) - say next - browse to the location where your old .pst file
is located - say next - select whatever you want to export.

Exporting to or importing from a PST is ill-advised.

 

[Guest]

Hi Brian,

Can you tell me why importing & exporting is ill-advised.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Can you tell me why importing & exporting is ill-advised.

It loses data and it's unnecessary. Export and import only when
transferring data between Outlook and some other application, not between
two instances of Outlook.

 

[Guest]

But how can one change the pst file format. You know when we install outlook
2003
pst file format remains the same i.e personal folder file 97-2002 which
supprots only 2gb of data. Now if I want to work on higher version of pst
file which can grow as big as upto 20gb, I'll need to create a new pst file.
So one way to access old mail data is either to let them remain in the old
pst file or to import them in the new one. What do I do?

 

[Brian Tillman]

But how can one change the pst file format. You know when we install
outlook 2003
pst file format remains the same i.e personal folder file 97-2002
which supprots only 2gb of data. Now if I want to work on higher
version of pst file which can grow as big as upto 20gb, I'll need to
create a new pst file. So one way to access old mail data is either
to let them remain in the old pst file or to import them in the new
one. What do I do?

Described here many times. Google Groups is your friend.
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