'Take ownership' see win help, of the folder containing your old OL data
files.
Copy those files to My Documents Folder.
Within OL, FileOpenData File........browse to that location

"Martin" wrote in message
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I reinstalled windows onto a newly formatted existing hard drive. But,
first I copied everything from my old C drive to a newly installed hard
drive. I am unable to import or open my previous outlook.pst file and get
msg "accessed denied". I believe I have permissions properly specified.

Help plz