Help O/Express Recovery from external Drive
 

A friend's HD was diagnosed as "dead". However, after a period of time, I'm
now able to run it within a USB enclosure externally as a slave. .

Have been able to recover pretty much everything for him except his Outlook
Express emails, attachments, and address book.

I'm running O/Express as my email client and know how to backup my own
stuff, but can't figure out how to find his stuff and put it on a DVD for
him.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Help O/Express Recovery from external Drive
 

Search the slave drive for files ending with the extension of DBX. Copy all
of those files to a CD/DVD and he can then copy them to his new setup and
clear the Read-Only attribute that is set when a file is copied to a CD/DVD
and import them directly into Outlook Express using
File/Import/Messages.......
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail Programs


"Ricky Ricardo" wrote in message
news:k4eTg.70549$R63.5897@pd7urf1no...
A friend's HD was diagnosed as "dead". However, after a period of time,
I'm now able to run it within a USB enclosure externally as a slave. .

Have been able to recover pretty much everything for him except his
Outlook Express emails, attachments, and address book.

I'm running O/Express as my email client and know how to backup my own
stuff, but can't figure out how to find his stuff and put it on a DVD for
him.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Help O/Express Recovery from external Drive
 

Hi Jim,

I had searched the drive for files with DBX extensions, and all I could find
were outdated mail files he had set up for a 2nd O/Express account 4 years
ago. Until the drive "died", he was a frequent user of O/Express under his
own name.

Could these files be "hidden" or buried w/in Windows?

Keith

"Jim Pickering\434078" wrote in message
...
Search the slave drive for files ending with the extension of DBX. Copy
all of those files to a CD/DVD and he can then copy them to his new setup
and clear the Read-Only attribute that is set when a file is copied to a
CD/DVD and import them directly into Outlook Express using
File/Import/Messages.......
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail Programs


"Ricky Ricardo" wrote in message
news:k4eTg.70549$R63.5897@pd7urf1no...
A friend's HD was diagnosed as "dead". However, after a period of time,
I'm now able to run it within a USB enclosure externally as a slave. .

Have been able to recover pretty much everything for him except his
Outlook Express emails, attachments, and address book.

I'm running O/Express as my email client and know how to backup my own
stuff, but can't figure out how to find his stuff and put it on a DVD for
him.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Help O/Express Recovery from external Drive
 

If you are using Windows XP or 2000, the DBX files will be hidden while
searching. If using those systems, before starting the search, click on the
Advanced button and make sure that "Include hidden files" is checked for the
search criteria.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Programs
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.


"Ricky Ricardo" wrote in message
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Hi Jim,

I had searched the drive for files with DBX extensions, and all I could
find were outdated mail files he had set up for a 2nd O/Express account 4
years ago. Until the drive "died", he was a frequent user of O/Express
under his own name.

Could these files be "hidden" or buried w/in Windows?

Keith

"Jim Pickering\434078" wrote in message
...
Search the slave drive for files ending with the extension of DBX. Copy
all of those files to a CD/DVD and he can then copy them to his new setup
and clear the Read-Only attribute that is set when a file is copied to a
CD/DVD and import them directly into Outlook Express using
File/Import/Messages.......
--
Jim Pickering, MVP/Windows Mail Programs


"Ricky Ricardo" wrote in message
news:k4eTg.70549$R63.5897@pd7urf1no...
A friend's HD was diagnosed as "dead". However, after a period of time,
I'm now able to run it within a USB enclosure externally as a slave. .

Have been able to recover pretty much everything for him except his
Outlook Express emails, attachments, and address book.

I'm running O/Express as my email client and know how to backup my own
stuff, but can't figure out how to find his stuff and put it on a DVD
for him.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Help O/Express Recovery from external Drive
 

Jim,

That did the trick! Was able to find the DBX files using the advanced
search capabilities and looking for hidden files as well.

Was able to find the Windows address book as well.

Thanks,

Keith


"Jim Pickering\434078" wrote in message
...
If you are using Windows XP or 2000, the DBX files will be hidden while
searching. If using those systems, before starting the search, click on
the
Advanced button and make sure that "Include hidden files" is checked for
the
search criteria.
--

Help O/Express Recovery from external Drive
 

Good to hear and thanks for the feedback.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Programs
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6



"Ricky Ricardo" wrote in message
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Jim,

That did the trick! Was able to find the DBX files using the advanced
search capabilities and looking for hidden files as well.

Was able to find the Windows address book as well.

Thanks,

Keith


"Jim Pickering\434078" wrote in message
...
If you are using Windows XP or 2000, the DBX files will be hidden while
searching. If using those systems, before starting the search, click on
the
Advanced button and make sure that "Include hidden files" is checked for
the
search criteria.
--