I have outlook express running on my XP home computer and want to transfer
everything in it to a new computer. I understand I have to import the
mailboxes into OE because one can no longer export .iaf files from Outlook.

Before I do that, I also have had numerous hard drive crashes which have
resulted in retrieved .dbx files of anything up to 12 MB in size. I suppose
these must be my inbox files which may well be kinda important. They were
probably created using the same version of Outlook Express 5 or 6 which I
have been using for some years now.

I would like to consolidate all these files before using Quick Backup to
back everything up and importing everything to the new computer but cant
import them into outlook express whose import function doesn't recognise
them as proper .dbx files.

Is there any way of importing the folder containing them or the files
themselves into Outlook?