Dave, Milly's quite right - the PST file (Outlook folder) should be somewhere
on your firewire drive... Good luck finding it! (It's usually called
outlook.pst if you accepted all the defaults and didn't make your own pst to
love and cherish). If you can find it, it should contain everything relating
to your Outlook configuration, including contacts, sent items, etc. Unless
it's corrupt, in which case, scanpst may be able to recover some bits of
flotsam and jetsam for you.

Unfortunately, your login details and so on won't have been saved, unless
you copied across your Vista Registry settings (and I've only been lightly
burned by Vista, so I don't know if that's even possible). If so, you may
need to dig through the registry looking for your login ID or mailserver
names or another string unique to that part of the Outlook setup. Smarter
people may be able to give you better answers...
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Data is not Information; Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not
Wisdom.


"DaveG" wrote:

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