need to recover e-mail from failing drive, Outlook not operating.

[Guest]

Client went in and turned off everything that mentioned remote or network in
admin services. XP will not let me restart services. She needs e-mails out of
outlook 2003. Where can I find the folder for these? I have her up and
running on a clean drive, but she needs her old e-mail.

 

[Andreas Roeder]

Client went in and turned off everything that mentioned remote or network in
admin services. XP will not let me restart services. She needs e-mails out of
outlook 2003. Where can I find the folder for these? I have her up and
running on a clean drive, but she needs her old e-mail.

Hi,
´please read
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm

 

[Tom Felts]

If she was storing locally on the drive, it should be in .pst file.
You can search for the file extension....

 

[Guest]

Depends if the user used Business Contact Manager. If it's just Outlook it's
located in: c\docs and settings\users name\ Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook. There should be a *.pst file called Outlook. If
there's a file called "Archive" take that too. When you paste in on the new
machine overwrite the original (or rename the original first).

 

[Brian Tillman]

If it's just
Outlook it's located in: c\docs and settings\users name\ Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook.

Not necessarily. It's true that's the default for Windows XP, but nothing
requires that the PST file be there.

 

[Guest]

It's a default location, $100 says it's there. Didn't say it was there for
sure, but most Outlook users use the default location.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Didn't say it was
there for sure,

Yes, you did, and I quote "it's located in...", or do you not understand
what "it is" means? You didn't say "it's likely in" or "it's probably in",
you said "it _is_ in".