Lost contacts after doing system recovery

[srfox]

I performed a non-destructive system recovery on a system
running XP SBE. Once the recovery was finished, I had to
put the OEM in for the Office package to work. All is
fine, except I can't find the original Contacts used in
OUtlook. Does anyone have a clue how to find and/or
recover these? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Assuming they were stored locally and not on Exchange, all your Outlook Data
will be in a Personal Storage File (*.pst). It's a hidden file on some OS.