Emergency: Move Outlook from one computer to another

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Martin

I have a computer that has a fried motherboard that needs
to be sent in for repairs. I need to move my Outlook 2K
from the broken machine's harddrive to a backup machine. I
can't find the default Outlook .pst or whatever file to
the new machine. Does anyone know how to do this?
 
Did you try doing a search for outlook.pst on C:? If it's not on C: open up
your search parameters to include any other drives you have. Once you find
it you should be able to copy the file over. Then again if your motherboard
is fried how are you accessing the drive? If you've put it in another PC
you should be able to run the search as above on this drive to find the
file. If you've modified your outlook file in any way you can always try
searching for *.pst on all drives and that will turn up any pst files on the
drive.

Good Luck!



Russ Valentine said:
Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm

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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Martin said:
I have a computer that has a fried motherboard that needs
to be sent in for repairs. I need to move my Outlook 2K
from the broken machine's harddrive to a backup machine. I
can't find the default Outlook .pst or whatever file to
the new machine. Does anyone know how to do this?
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If you're using Windows 2000 or XP, make sure you are searching in hidden
and system folders to find all possible .PST files.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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