A customer of mine called to say that his computer was dead. We sorted
out that it was his motherboard that was dead. He bought a replacement
computer and we installed the old hard disk in the new computer as a
slave to get the files off it. The only data they really needed was
their Outlook data - contacts and calendar were very important.

They were using XP Home and Outlook 2000.

I went looking for some data files but couldn't find anything. the
only pst file on the computer was 32k and was an original start up
file. I checked for files changed in the last 5 days and could find
nothing that looked like an Outlook data file.

There are no errors on the hard disk so I don't think any files have
been inadvertently trashed. I have checked theior network and I cannot
see that they were using a networked data file.

I have installed Outlook 2003 on the new hard disk and made sure
nothing was changed on the old one.

Has anyone any idea what might have happened. Am I even looking for
the right things?

David