restoring email settings after reformatting hard drive

[Guest]

This is probably very easy so excuse my ignorance. I'm reformatting my hard
drive for the first time and am copying all my files onto an external hard
drive. I'm not sure how to save all my e-mail accounts, address book and
messages onto the external drive so I can import them back into OE when I've
reinstalled it.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Rock]

This is probably very easy so excuse my ignorance. I'm reformatting my
hard
drive for the first time and am copying all my files onto an external hard
drive. I'm not sure how to save all my e-mail accounts, address book and
messages onto the external drive so I can import them back into OE when
I've
reinstalled it.

For future reference, the best place for outlook express questions is in an
outlook express newsgroup. There is plenty of info on how to do this on
various web sites found by a Google search. Here is one to start with.

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/backup/

Google search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=backup+restore+outlook+express

Outlook Express newsgroup
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...57e-ceea-4691-9cf6-efbe673e7b70&lang=en&cr=us

 

[Alex]

Nice that you were chastised but not answered:

outlook express uses .dbx files for mail data. Some of the :

settings are kept as reg entries. Try this:

http://www.iopus.com/guides/oe-backup.htm

 

[Rock]

Nice that you were chastised but not answered:

outlook express uses .dbx files for mail data. Some of the :

settings are kept as reg entries. Try this:

http://www.iopus.com/guides/oe-backup.htm

There was no chastising, and the OP was answered with multiple links to
sites with specific info on his question. You provided one link.

 

[PA Bear]

References:

Backup & Restore OE Data
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

Importing OE Data (all DBX files, including Folders.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5

Importing a single DBX file
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx (last paragraph)

About OE Files & Settings
http://www.insideoe.com/files/index.htm

About OE Registry Keys
http://www.insideoe.com/files/regkeys.htm

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
--
OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)