Hard Drive Saved / How to Retrieve E-Mail and Other Files?

[jam05xyz]

My Dell 8500 laptop power supply unit failed. I removed the hard driv
and purchased a hard drive enclosure. Then, I hooked it up to my Del
XPS 400 desktop (uses Microsoft Media Center Edition)

I can retrieve many files, however anything associated with th
Windows XP OS (that was on the laptop), to include my Outlook e-mai
files, does not show up when I look for the files

I believe that Windows and Microsoft Office files were partitione
(the files I cannot see) from the other files

Does anyone have advice on how to access these files? I have als
tried booting the hard drive from my USB port, but have receive
errors

Thanks in advance

 

[JS]

Try searching the drive for files with a .dbx extension, the file names will
be the same as the folder names in OE.
(Example: myfoldername.dbx).
Also:
Outlook Express help:
http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpressbackuphelp/
http://www.insideoe.com/

From MS KB:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670/en-us

JS

 

[Ron Martell]

My Dell 8500 laptop power supply unit failed. I removed the hard drive
and purchased a hard drive enclosure. Then, I hooked it up to my Dell
XPS 400 desktop (uses Microsoft Media Center Edition).

I can retrieve many files, however anything associated with the
Windows XP OS (that was on the laptop), to include my Outlook e-mail
files, does not show up when I look for the files.

I believe that Windows and Microsoft Office files were partitioned
(the files I cannot see) from the other files.

Does anyone have advice on how to access these files? I have also
tried booting the hard drive from my USB port, but have received
errors.

For your Outlook files search the drive for a file with the .PST
extension (assuming Outlook 2003 or earlier. I am not certain if
Outlook 2007 retains the .PST file extension.

Make note of the location of the file then tell the Outlook installed
on the desktop machine to import the emails from that location.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2008)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[jam05xyz]

jam05xyz wrote
My Dell 8500 laptop power supply unit failed. I removed the har

drive and purchased a hard drive enclosure. Then, I hooked it up t
my Dell XPS 400 desktop (uses Microsoft Media Center Edition)

I can retrieve many files, however anything associated with th

Windows XP OS (that was on the laptop), to include my Outlook e-mai
files, does not show up when I look for the files

I believe that Windows and Microsoft Office files were partitione

(the files I cannot see) from the other files

Does anyone have advice on how to access these files? I have als

tried booting the hard drive from my USB port, but have receive
errors

Thanks in advance

Thank you very much for the helpfu
information. I was able to find the Outlook files searching for th
.pst

Thanks again