Trying to restore email accounts

[Robynsveil]

Hi,
My hard drive crashed with Outlook 2000 Professional and everything
down the tubes. Went to a hard-drive data recovery mob who were able
to recover all of the data, which they even copied to a folder on my
new PC. However, when I open the .pst in Outlook 2000 Professional,
all my email account settings do not come up, so I cannot send or
receive any email.

Any idea how to fix this?

 

[Gordon]

Hi,
My hard drive crashed with Outlook 2000 Professional and everything
down the tubes. Went to a hard-drive data recovery mob who were able
to recover all of the data, which they even copied to a folder on my
new PC. However, when I open the .pst in Outlook 2000 Professional,
all my email account settings do not come up, so I cannot send or
receive any email.

Any idea how to fix this?

Yes, re-enter your account settings. <sigh>

 

[Robynsveil]

Yes, re-enter your account settings. <sigh>

Thank you. Not quite the answer I was looking for, so allow me to
rephrase my question.

I do not have all the email account settings - they've been misplaced
and was hoping to be able to restore them from my existing .pst file
(the one that I was able to recover from the failed hard drive), but
when I open the .pst folder in Outlook, no account settings are there.
Are they stored in a different file? and if so, which one?
Thank you.

 

[Gordon]

Thank you. Not quite the answer I was looking for, so allow me to
rephrase my question.

I do not have all the email account settings - they've been misplaced
and was hoping to be able to restore them from my existing .pst file
(the one that I was able to recover from the failed hard drive), but
when I open the .pst folder in Outlook, no account settings are there.
Are they stored in a different file? and if so, which one?
Thank you.

They are in the registry. Won't your email provider(s) give you the
settings?

 

[DL]

They are stored in the registry, I dont believe they are recoverable.
Your ISP or other email providers, will advise you of the settings

 

[Robynsveil]

That's disheartening news. My understanding was (from reading other
posts on the subject) that email account settings were written to the
registry from Outlook 2002 onward, so I was given to believe that
prior to Outlook 2002 the email account data was written to something
else. Is this not true, then? To clarify, I am trying to recover
settings from Outlook 2000 Professional.

 

[Gordon]

That's disheartening news. My understanding was (from reading other
posts on the subject) that email account settings were written to the
registry from Outlook 2002 onward, so I was given to believe that
prior to Outlook 2002 the email account data was written to something
else. Is this not true, then? To clarify, I am trying to recover
settings from Outlook 2000 Professional.

This thread has taken two days so far. If you'd contacted your email
provider(s) for the settings, it would have taken you 5 MINUTES!

 

[Robynsveil]

This thread has taken two days so far. If you'd contacted your email
provider(s) for the settings, it would have taken you 5 MINUTES!

My apologies for taking up valuable bandwidth and reader time with
this issue and thank you for your response.

We don't enjoy a very good relationship with one of our ISPs - there
are over 15 settings being discussed here. Can anyone confirm that
email account settings for Outlook 2000 Professional were indeed
stored in the registry (which other posts on the subject had set at
question), or do I need to undertake the odious task of contacting
these people with whom we've had nothing but dramas?

Once again, thank you for for taking the time to consider this issue.

 

[Brian Tillman]

We don't enjoy a very good relationship with one of our ISPs - there
are over 15 settings being discussed here. Can anyone confirm that
email account settings for Outlook 2000 Professional were indeed
stored in the registry (which other posts on the subject had set at
question), or do I need to undertake the odious task of contacting
these people with whom we've had nothing but dramas?

I'll confirm that they're stored in the registry.