Files 'n' stuff

gwoolie · 1 Feb 2009 at 17:35

After many years, my mums computer has died. The fans have had so much use the bearings are dry, there was no paste on the old AMD XP2100 chip
and the machine took ages to boot despite much defragging ect.

So now its died, a capasitor has burst and leaked everywhere.

Now not one for backing stuff up her 80gb IDE Maxtor has loads of files on it.

The main docs, pictures ect im fine with backing up via the spare ide on my PC. The problem is the Emails she now says she needs!!!

Its running on XP Pro, outlook express. Any idea's where I can restore them from???

Also her contacts if poss???

If not i will have to disconnect all my SATA and boot from the drive and copy everything from there, but im trying to get away with attacking my hardware as its soooo smooth at this time!!!

Cheers in advance

ChrisLX200 · 1 Feb 2009 at 20:12

Just do a search *.PST for the email file, then choose 'import' from the new machine and point to that file. Not sure about the contacts.

bobbydigital · 1 Feb 2009 at 20:49

Everything should be in documents and settings/username/application data/microsoft/

should be a folder address book and one for outlook express

bobbydigital · 2 Feb 2009 at 13:10

Oh just remembered your actually outlook folders will be under:

documents and settings/username/local settings/application data/identities/

hope this helps out your problem.

jvowles · 2 Feb 2009 at 17:12

indeed, the profile is in identities.