recovering e-mails from another harddrive

[Yaka]

well this week is defo not my week, now one of me old hard drives which had win2k installed refuses to boot (tried repaing vai win2k install) and i urgently need to acses a couple of emails on that hard drive. i have it installed as a slave drive at the moment but am clueless as how i can transfer the e-mails to winxp.



HELP!

 

[Jupitus]

from outlook?

 

[Gray]

im having the same kinda trouble at the moment... More, WinXP to a Reinstall.

I used Outlook 2002, i copied all the .dbx files from the old XP (Located: "C:\Documents and Settings\A Gray\Application Data\Identities\{Hex}\Microsoft\Outlook"

On the new reinstall, that hasnt got the option, so therefor i have nowhere to put the .dbx files (Inbox, custom folders, emails etc). Which is a pisser because i remember doing it that way last time.

Dont know the directories you should be looking at on Win2k, as it all changed i think in XP, but thats where you SHOULD have all the emails stored..

 

[Gray]

Oh... ok.... fixed it from my end, i had to use Outlook Express, and there was ANOTHER hidden folder which had all the stuff in. I copied and pasted the .dbx files, and then imported into Outlook2002...

Whoo

 

[Yaka]

ah thanks for info Gray shall have to leave it till mourning now, totaly stressed out atm:/

 

[Xavier]

If it's outlook express you're using then yes, it's as simple as moving the DBX files across to the new profile folder - make sure you set up outlook express on the new machine first and copy the old files over the new ones it creates - and don't do a move either, COPY them so you have a backup

If it's Outlook you're using however you're likely to need a little software tool to convert the OST into a PST to be re-imported. Let us know if this is the case.

Xav