recovering inbox after crash

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claud

How do you recover your e-mails after your computer
crashes? ... I can access the hard drive, now in a second
computer, but don't now how to find the mail storage files
and can't boot from that drive so I can't run the original
outlook setup.

Thank you !
 
I don't have a crashed hard drive. But I'm setting up a
new HD with a clean start and want to access my
accumulated and sorted email as an archive. If I can find
the folders and files where Outlook Express stores it's
email content, I can temporarily change the file names
until I need access. But so far, I've not found those
files on my old HD, even using Filesnoop to show the
import and export files used by MSOE's various exe and dll
files.
 
This newsgroup is for support of Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002 & 2003 from the
Office
family for Intel PCs. For Outlook Express (OE) support try posting in one of
these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4.outlookexpress for OE 4.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.mail.mac for the Macintosh version of OE

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).

Also a good source of Outlook Express info can be found here:
http://www.tomsterdam.com

--
Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr

**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for assistance.
Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
 
claud said:
How do you recover your e-mails after your computer
crashes? ... I can access the hard drive, now in a second
computer, but don't now how to find the mail storage files
and can't boot from that drive so I can't run the original
outlook setup.
Click to expand...

If you can read the old drive, search it for files ending in .pst. Those
are the message stores. Move them to somewhere on your new HD and open them
with the newly installed Outlook.
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Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
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