Tell us please exactly what you are attempting to do. It sounds like you
expect to be able to open the old Outlook Express on your old hard drive.
If your interest is in backup/restore operations for the old messages on
that hard drive, review the info at this link:
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/index.htm

Otherwise, please be more specific in the details of what it is you are
trying to accomplish.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"Doug" wrote in message
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I recentaly reinstalled xpsp2 on a new drive and now my outlook wont open
when i go to program files and try to open the outlook express folder it
asks
me if i want to format, i have the old drive in computer as secondary and
the
old outlook works still. Any thoughts