Export and conversion of emails to a new laptop

[GSV]Lemming · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:58

I have an old laptop with emails in both Lotus Notes and Outlook 2003 which I need to recover. They are each a seperate problem for me.

Outlook was attached to an exchange server which no longer exists, export does not work work unless I re-attach first. I am guessing I can find the pst store used offline and transfer this to the new laptop before importing from it, would that work?

Lotus notes contains the bulk of the emails I need to transfer to Outlook. I have searched the net in vain for a conversion utility that is actually free without success. I have tried the export function in notes but it doesnt seem to work very weel and does not appear to retain the attachments to emails.
Can someone suggest a solution to this?

The notes problem is the most vexing for me, I have no knowledge of notes at all and would appreciate any help you can offer.

[GSV]Lemming · 30 Dec 2009 at 23:26

I am using notes 6.5, I also have the client installed and can log in to run it in island mode to view the emails.

I was not expecting the extraction of emails to be such a problem, I have seen lots of pay for tools for Notes but am not willing to spend the money asked for in this one off transfer

[GSV]Lemming · 31 Dec 2009 at 10:25

As it seems that exporting the data may well not be possible, is there a way (free) to make my install into an image I can run as a virtual machine on my laptop after a reinstall?

It is currently installed as XP but is badly in need of a reinstall, I would prefer to go to Windows 7.

[GSV]Lemming · 31 Dec 2009 at 12:51

Many thanks, that looks like the easiest way forward for me.