I've got a computer that the motherboard went south on and will not
boot. I bought a new computer but I need to get the Outlook files
off the old hard drive to put into the new computers Outlook program.
Can someone tell me where and what I'm looking for to be able to do
this? I've done a Google on it but all those results say to make a
backup of the old data, which I cannot do because that computer will
not boot. The drive is good as I have it conntcted to an old machine
and I can see all the files on that drive. I just need to know which
ones I need to move to the new comuter so Outlook will be like it was
on the old one. OH, and both computers have Office 2003 on them.

Any help?

TrOll

The mail, contacts, calendar, .etc is kept in a file with a .PST file
extension. If you do a search for it via Windows Explorer, make sure you
turn on the display of hidden/system files/folders as well as configure the
search to look in said directories. (Its something like \documents and
settings\userid\application data\microsoft\outlook or \documents and
settings\userid\local settings\application data\microsoft\outlook.)

Once you locate your .PST file(s) on the old drive, you can either import
the items via a File Import and Export or open the old PST file via a File
Open Outlook Data File

"TrOll" wrote in message
...
I've got a computer that the motherboard went south on and will not
boot. I bought a new computer but I need to get the Outlook files
off the old hard drive to put into the new computers Outlook program.
Can someone tell me where and what I'm looking for to be able to do
this? I've done a Google on it but all those results say to make a
backup of the old data, which I cannot do because that computer will
not boot. The drive is good as I have it conntcted to an old machine
and I can see all the files on that drive. I just need to know which
ones I need to move to the new comuter so Outlook will be like it was
on the old one. OH, and both computers have Office 2003 on them.

Any help?

TrOll

Thanks, I'll check this out.

TrOll


On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:10:05 -0700, "neo [mvp outlook]"
wrote:

The mail, contacts, calendar, .etc is kept in a file with a .PST file
extension. If you do a search for it via Windows Explorer, make sure you
turn on the display of hidden/system files/folders as well as configure the
search to look in said directories. (Its something like \documents and
settings\userid\application data\microsoft\outlook or \documents and
settings\userid\local settings\application data\microsoft\outlook.)

Once you locate your .PST file(s) on the old drive, you can either import
the items via a File Import and Export or open the old PST file via a File
Open Outlook Data File

"TrOll" wrote in message
.. .
I've got a computer that the motherboard went south on and will not
boot. I bought a new computer but I need to get the Outlook files
off the old hard drive to put into the new computers Outlook program.
Can someone tell me where and what I'm looking for to be able to do
this? I've done a Google on it but all those results say to make a
backup of the old data, which I cannot do because that computer will
not boot. The drive is good as I have it conntcted to an old machine
and I can see all the files on that drive. I just need to know which
ones I need to move to the new comuter so Outlook will be like it was
on the old one. OH, and both computers have Office 2003 on them.

Any help?

TrOll