Outlook express lost emails

[IanC]

Laptop gave up and died, HDD ok, all my @blueyonder ( on outlook 6.0) emails
lost - I log on to blueyonder web mail and find no saved emails at all. How
do I access outlook 6.0 and get all my emails? Now have vista laptop.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

You're most certainly not using Outlook Express (OE) in Vista, Ian. If your
messages have gone missing in OE on another computer, post here instead:
microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You can remove the HDD from the dead laptop, and obtain an adapter
that will allow you to read the data from it via the USB port on your new
laptop.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Laptop gave up and died, HDD ok, all my @blueyonder ( on outlook 6.0)
emails
lost - I log on to blueyonder web mail and find no saved emails at all.
How
do I access outlook 6.0 and get all my emails? Now have vista laptop.

Any help would be appreciated.

It's actually quite easy if the old disk is working. You just need a way
to connect the old hard disk to the new laptop; there are USB 2 adapters and
cases starting around $15 that work great for this. You just need to know
if the old drive is IDE or SATA If the connector on the drive has a lot of
pins, it's IDE.

Connect your old hard disk to the new laptop, and locate the OE folder.
Copy the *entire* folder to a conveient location on your new hard disk. Do
not just take the files for the folders you want - you *must have* the
folders.dbx file for the import to work, so it's easiest to take the whole
folder.

If you want the address book files, they are totally separate; search the
drive for *.WAB files. Copy those, too.

Once the copy is complete - and the copy is just for convience and safety -
you can tell Windows Mail to import the messages. Go to File, Import,
Messages, OE6, then Store Folder, and Browse. Point the Browse window to
the folder you copied from the old hard disk. Let it go, and you'll have
your mail. Do the same for the addresses.

HTH
-pk