If the new PC has Windows XP, the Outlook Express should already be
installed on it. In that case, start OE from the new PC hard disk (you
cannot start it from the old disk) and select File, Import, Messages
from OE6 and select to import from a Store Folder, not an OE Identity.

If the new PC has Vista, it will not have OE and OE cannot be installed
on it. But it will have Windows Mail (WM) which is the Vista
replacement for OE and can import the OE data. In that case, see:
Backing up Windows Mail and importing from Outlook Express to Windows
Mail
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
Import messages into Windows Mail from Outlook Express:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com:80/...7994f1033.mspx

Once you have the OE data in either OE or WM (as applies) on the new PC
you can turn to migrating to Outlook.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Hopeless" wrote in message
...
Recently purchased a new laptop with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. I
have
extracted the hard drive from my old, broken machine. I am trying to
recover
the data from Outlook Express and the following error message appears:
"Outlook Express could not be started because MSOE.DLL could not be
loaded".
Am I able to install Outlook Express on to my new machine from the old
hard
drive. The laptop is not connected to the internet yet.
I have no idea why i was using Outlook Express and not Outlook on the
old
machine - someone else set that up.
Can anyone help?