Here are the instructions for accessing the data from an Outlook data file.
They are complicated:
File Open Outlook data file...
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Charles" wrote in message
...
about a year ago our old computer "crapped out", we were using(I think)
windows 2000 at the time. any way my wife gave me the chore of retrieving
her old e-mail contacts in the old computer and putting them into our new
one. so then we added the old computer's hard drive into our new computer
temporarily so that I could get our old music files, pictures, etc. and
put
them on our new hard drive.

I surfed and dug and shoveled through a lot of the discussions posted
previously and I think I found several different variations that were
close
to my situation but it still did not work for me, or my brain could not
comprehend the instructions.

I found the pst file in the old hard drive and I need instructions, if
possible, on how to retrieve them so that I can cross this chore off my
list...
I keep getting the error message "the different options for opening
Contacts
(wab.exe) from the Run command a blah blah blah..."--
thanks everyone,
Charles