I am fairly certain Oulook was open when I copied the files to cd. I
wouldn't have known to close it before copying. But it is obviously good
advice.

I am going to try and copy the pst to the new laptop hard drive then access
it from the new location - rather than access it from the cd - and see what
happens.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

tom wrote:

To the best of my recollection I copied rather than import/export. I
remember watvching the series of eight stages, but do not remember
whether there were specific indications of corruption. To answer
Brian, the emails were active and accessible on the hard drive when I
copied them to the cd.

Was Outlook open?

Is there any way to "look" at the data on the cd to see if those
emails are actually there or not?

I always test a PST I burn to CD _before_ relying on it by copying it back
to the hard drive and opening it.
--
Brian Tillman