RaloNC wrote:

Part of my HD recently crashed on my laptop and it will not reboot
anymore. I have a feeling that my data is still on there, so I will
try to attach the HD as an external drive and hopefully have the
ability to copy files off of it.

My question is: How do I recreate my old Outlook setup (with email
accounts, all my old settings, contacts and addresses, etc) on the
fresh install of Outlook, using the old HD?

You will not be able to recover your account settings because they were in
the registry, which is unrecoverable, since you can't boot the disk. This
is also true of some of the other Outlook settings. If you can read the
disk, you may be able to recover your Outlook data (the mail, contacts,
calendar, etc.). For information on what you might be able to recover, see:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.asp
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]