recovering Outlook files from harddrive???

[Guest]

The motherboard on my laptop blew so I took out the harddrive and connected
it to my desktop. I cannot open the old Outlook to do an export from the
desktop (or at least that's what I think). I need to recover the emails,
tasks, contacts, notes, etc. from my Outlook (version 2002). It was a
standalone, importing emails from POP3 mailboxes. In other words, I can't go
to Exchange to recover anything.

Also, I never archived/exported anything to a backup file manually.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can accomplish this?

 

[Websetters]

Your contents of your Outlook folders should be stored in a file with the
file extension *.PST. Therefore on your old hard drive you should have a
file something like Outlook.PST. While in your new Outlook go to File Open
menu and select new data file. At the file dialogue select the PST file and
a new Private folder will be opened in Outlook.

This will display all you old mails, contact appointments etc.

Alternatively, if you wish to use this as your new PST file, right mouse
click against the 'new' folder in Outlook on your new machine and select
properties. From the advance tab you should be able to select the location
of your old PST and this will then become your standard Outlook repository.

Regards
Graeme