The rules are stored in the registry. If you cannot boot the disk, you will
have difficulty getting anything useful from the registry. And you will not
be able to export them from that registry with the specific GUID that was in
use (which will have to be edited to agree with the GUID for the identity
now in use), so that you could merge them into your existing setup.

If the old disk will not boot is caused by "some IBM" software, I think I'd
uninstall it, then try booting from it and export the key from the registry
at this location:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Micro soft\Outlook
Express\5.0\Rules]

If it then won't boot, I think you're out of luck unless you get a tool such
as this one from Avast:
http://files.avast.com/files/eng/datasheet-bart.pdf
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"fcampbel" wrote in message
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I have a related question. WindowsXP OE6, I just completely restored
my HD to factory condition. (it was the original HD but I replaced it
with a larger one which recently refused to boot after uninstalling
some IBM software) I am reinstalling all my old software and data from
the HD. I already imported all my emails and folders. I don't want to
retype all of my mail rules. Since I cannot to export them because I
cannot boot the HD which they are on, is there a way to copy them from
one disk to another so OE can find them when I use the import tool?