Questions asked in the news groups are answered in the news group. Most MVPs I know support private inquiries via a paid per incident. I know I do.

If you locate your saved .pst file and use Outlook's File-open-outlook data file, you should have everything you need to get Outlook up and running. Caveat - do not place the .pst file in the default location and never overwrite another .pst file. Place it in a folder that you back up often like My Documents. Outlook does not care where you put the .pst file - I have had mine on a second hard drive (data drive) for 8 years.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, DaveG asked:

| Unfortuanatly, I had to downgrade my machine back to XP Pro. I was
| able to make a clone of my entire drive to Firewire before
| reformating and reinstalling.
|
| What I seem unable to to is resurrect my original Outlook ID/saved
| mails, contacts etc. (Outlook 2007 installed now). I'm a bit at a
| loss, and would appreciate one of the Outlook MVP's popping me an
| email to help me out. We can discuss doing a 'live help' thing....I
| have listed my "v-dash" vendor acct. email to decipher
|
| v-daveg
|
| thanks.
|
| dave