Help with retrieving OE Address Book from a HDD

RoachycaL

RoachycaL

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I've recently been given a computer to fix (which wont boot due to a number of errors) and both me and the owner have decided the best bet is to do a full format and start from scratch.

Ive pulled his hard drive out and its in my pc at the moment so I can take the documents and emails off it - but I cant work out how to get a copy of the address book from outlook express.

As soon as he asked me to do it, I thought it was going to be a real problem - as I cant actually boot from the hard drive - so I cant export the address book using outlook express. Does anyone know if the address book is stored somewhere on the hard drive - or when I export it does windows compile it and create a file?

If so - how can I retrieve this guys address book from an un-bootable hard drive?

Help really appreciated!

EDIT: I cant seem to find where the emails are stored either - does anyone know where these will be?

Normally I would google this, but I believe the ocuk'ers can provide some better advice :)
 
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You can view the address book from the program menu, accessories going to the properties gives me this "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\wab.exe"

EDIT: actually the wab.exe isn't going to any help to you as thats just the app, doh.
Second EDIT: My contacts are located here "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book\Administrator.wab"

The Emails are stored "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{31391EF3-B3AC-4F12-94D8-DC2DA45E9526}\Microsoft\"

Should be folder with inbox.dbx etc
 
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