lost address book and notes in outlook 2003

[Mike]

Hello, I recently had a crash and had to format my C drive on my win xp
computer. I have outlook 2003 and an addon program that regularly backs up
all my data from the program to a second hard drive, or at least I thought
it did. Anyway, after reinstalling everything I found that I had several
empty pst files and a few that had some old email messages. No addresses or
notes. I have saved all of these files just in case there is some way to
salvage them. Is there? If possible, please reply to my email rather than
this group because I can't view this at work. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, Mike K.
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hello, I recently had a crash and had to format my C drive on my win
xp computer. I have outlook 2003 and an addon program that regularly
backs up all my data from the program to a second hard drive, or at
least I thought it did. Anyway, after reinstalling everything I found
that I had several empty pst files and a few that had some old email
messages. No addresses or notes. I have saved all of these files just
in case there is some way to salvage them.

How did you save them? Was Outlook open or closed when you did so? How are
you trying to open the PSTs you have?

 

[Mike]

The program that I have saves the files after outlook closes. I dl'd it from
microsoft office site. To open the pst, i use File/Open/Data File to select
the pst. There are several of them and I have tried them all.

 

[Brian Tillman]

The program that I have saves the files after outlook closes. I dl'd
it from microsoft office site. To open the pst, i use File/Open/Data
File to select the pst. There are several of them and I have tried
them all.

I'm afraid I'm out of suggestions. Sorry.