Recover Outlook mailbox

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Ted Crash

I had to install a new version of Windows 2000 after Roxio
hammered my registry during an uninstall. I saved my MS
Office 2000 folder to another hard drive partition, and
installed Office 2000 into a new MS Office directory. All
Office apps worked fine. I then configured Outlook and
receive e-mail OK. However, I'm unable to locate my
previous Outlook mailbox... I backed it up last year as
a .pst file, but not recently. Anyone know how to hack
into the old Outlook installation, and recover my e-mails
from that previous installation? Thanks Ted.
 
The Outlook .pst file does not reside in the Office folder. It is under
C:\Documents and Settings\Profile Name\Application Data.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the SWEN virus, all mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Ted Crash asked:

| I had to install a new version of Windows 2000 after Roxio
| hammered my registry during an uninstall. I saved my MS
| Office 2000 folder to another hard drive partition, and
| installed Office 2000 into a new MS Office directory. All
| Office apps worked fine. I then configured Outlook and
| receive e-mail OK. However, I'm unable to locate my
| previous Outlook mailbox... I backed it up last year as
| a .pst file, but not recently. Anyone know how to hack
| into the old Outlook installation, and recover my e-mails
| from that previous installation? Thanks Ted.
 
That's the problem... there is no "outlook.pst" file.
There are no .pst files on my C:/ drive. This is
mysterious, because I have a new instance of Outlook
running, and it should have a backup .pst file I would
think.

Anybody have an answer?

Thanks,

Ted
 
That's the problem... there is no "outlook.pst" file.
There are no .pst files on my C:/ drive. This is
mysterious, because I have a new instance of Outlook
running, and it should have a backup .pst file I would
think.

Anybody have an answer?

Thanks,

There MUST be a pst file. Outlook cannot run without one.
Windows XP or 2000? Both those OS's think pst files are "hidden" files. You
have to enable "Show hidden and system files and folders in Windows
Explorer.
 
Ted,

I'm in the same boat as you. I need to recover some user
Outlook mailboxes as well. Did anyone email you
information or reply to your posting on how to recover
these files? Please let me know if you did.

Mike
 
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