Recovering Outlook Contacts After Windows Reinstallation

[a_ryan1972]

Hi, I am running XP SP3 and Outlook 2007. After reinstalling XP I realized
that I forgot to backup my contacts. I thought I should be looking for a
..pst file. When I recovered outlook.pst and inserted it into c:\documents
and settings\userprofile\local settings\application data\microsoft\outlook
and then opened outlook, I got a message saying that the .pst file is not a
personal folders file.

Please help.

Thank you.

 

[Russ Valentine]

Why are you reposting the same question instead of reading the reply to your
earlier post?
Do you need help using newsgroups?

 

[a_ryan1972]

Because it hours to post so I thought it didn't work the first time.

 

[Russ Valentine]

You should be using a newsreader not a web interface.