Recover emails and contacts after disk crash.

[Guest]

Hi,

I had a major hardrdrive crash. I have since recovered the disk although
the operating system was unusable. I have clean installed XP Media Centre
2005 back on a new harddrive and am up and running. I can however access all
the data from the failed drive. I never did any kind of mail backup though.
I was running Outlook 2000 under my profile and my better half was running
Express under her profile.

Can we recover the emails/contacts anyway?

Thanks in advance,
Sean (& Jo)

 

[ChrisRM]

Hi,

I had a major hardrdrive crash. I have since recovered the disk although
the operating system was unusable. I have clean installed XP Media Centre
2005 back on a new harddrive and am up and running. I can however access
all
the data from the failed drive. I never did any kind of mail backup
though.
I was running Outlook 2000 under my profile and my better half was running
Express under her profile.

Can we recover the emails/contacts anyway?

Thanks in advance,
Sean (& Jo)

 

[ChrisRM]

Hi,

I had a major hardrdrive crash. I have since recovered the disk although
the operating system was unusable. I have clean installed XP Media Centre
2005 back on a new harddrive and am up and running. I can however access
all
the data from the failed drive. I never did any kind of mail backup
though.
I was running Outlook 2000 under my profile and my better half was running
Express under her profile.

Can we recover the emails/contacts anyway?

Thanks in advance,
Sean (& Jo)

You may be able to yes!

If you can find your outlook data files you can import all the
mail/contact/calendar data.

They are usually located here

C:\Documents and Settings\[userid]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst

but if not just search for *.pst files its the pst extension that denotes
the outlook data store.

From your new Outlook go to the File menu and select the "Import and Export"
option
Select "Import from another program file" on the next dialog, press next
button
Select "Presonal folder file (.pst)" on the next dialog, press the next
button
On the next dialog press the "browse" button and select your old outlook.pst
file.
Answer the question about what to do with duplicates and away you go.

Oh yes and remember to select the checkbox about "processing sub folders" as
well so that you get everything you may have moved into your own folder.

If you made any of your own data stores they will also be in the above
location unless you specified otherwise when you created them, do the same
for these files.

You can probably do something similiar with express but I cant help with
that one.

Hope this helps
Chris

 

[Guest]

Cheers Chris, very helpful

Hi,

I had a major hardrdrive crash. I have since recovered the disk although
the operating system was unusable. I have clean installed XP Media Centre
2005 back on a new harddrive and am up and running. I can however access
all
the data from the failed drive. I never did any kind of mail backup
though.
I was running Outlook 2000 under my profile and my better half was running
Express under her profile.

Can we recover the emails/contacts anyway?

Thanks in advance,
Sean (& Jo)

You may be able to yes!

If you can find your outlook data files you can import all the
mail/contact/calendar data.

They are usually located here

C:\Documents and Settings\[userid]\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst

but if not just search for *.pst files its the pst extension that denotes
the outlook data store.

From your new Outlook go to the File menu and select the "Import and Export"
option
Select "Import from another program file" on the next dialog, press next
button
Select "Presonal folder file (.pst)" on the next dialog, press the next
button
On the next dialog press the "browse" button and select your old outlook.pst
file.
Answer the question about what to do with duplicates and away you go.

Oh yes and remember to select the checkbox about "processing sub folders" as
well so that you get everything you may have moved into your own folder.

If you made any of your own data stores they will also be in the above
location unless you specified otherwise when you created them, do the same
for these files.

You can probably do something similiar with express but I cant help with
that one.

Hope this helps
Chris

 

[Brian Tillman]

I had a major hardrdrive crash. I have since recovered the disk
although the operating system was unusable. I have clean installed
XP Media Centre 2005 back on a new harddrive and am up and running.
I can however access all the data from the failed drive. I never did
any kind of mail backup though. I was running Outlook 2000 under my
profile and my better half was running Express under her profile.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm