Need to recover email & address book off old hard drive

[Guest]

Old PC died (Win98, Office2000/Outlook2000). Friend pulled all the data off
HDD onto CD's for me. (Did not pull any hidden files.)

New PC (XP): loaded Office2000/Outlook2000. New program cannot find the
old email & address book. (You guessed it - not properly backed up!)

On the CD from the OLD PC, the files in
Docs&Settings\username\LocalSettings\ApplicationData\MS\Outlook are:
extend.dat 2KB
11/19/2003
MS Outlook Internet Settings.FAV 38KB 7/31/2005
MS Outlook Internet Settings.NICK 6KB 12/14/2005
outcmd 3KB
12/18/2005
OutlPrnt 21KB
10/31/2005

What can I do to recover the thousands of addresses and emails previously in
place on my OLD PC???
Thanks very much for any help.

 

[DL]

I'm afraid unless your backup contains any *.pst files you have lost them.

Unless you can pull your old HD, connect as slave, to copy pst files across.
NB They are hidden Files

 

[Guest]

That's my concern, for sure! But there never was a backup done, and I never
created a PST file of my own. Does Outlook keep its own PST file,
independent of anything the user may/may not do?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Yes, the PST file is the primary data storage. If your friend pulled ALL of
the data off the old hard drive (except hidden files) then you should be
able to find a .PST file somewhere in that which contains your old Outlook
data.

With Win98 the PST file wasn't stored as a hidden file so it should be
there. Do a Windows search on that CD for *.PST and see what it finds.

Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm

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[Guest]

Thanks for the idea - I retried it with the same results - nada. Where else
could it be (WIN98 structure)??

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

If a Windows search doesn't find it then it's probably not there. Can you
still access the old hard drive to get data off it?

Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft Outlook FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/outlook.htm

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