THanks for the info.
So in order to figure out what I am looking for I am going to try and find
my currently running outlook mailbox on a laptop running fine.
However when I search my currently running laptop (not the formatted one)
even with show hidden files and folders, show well known file types turned on
and searching for *.pst I find nothing.

I have Windows Vista Business /SP1 on a C: partition
I have Office 2007 Professional installed on D:\program files\Microsoft
Office\
All Office settings are default except the install path was D: and not C:

With show hidden and show well known I find nothing under outlook.pst or
..pst or outlook. that looks like a pst file. I am so confused.

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"DL" wrote:

The outlook default data file location is a hidden file, you have to search
to include hidden
However if you formatted the C drive you will have lost all your information
/ Data

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
a.. Make sure you include hidden and system files and folders when
searching for pst-file
b.. By default it is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
For Windows Vista the default is
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outloo k\
c.. You can also locate the file by using
Rightclick the root folder (probably Outlook Today)- Properties- button
Advanced- field Filename

"toddah" wrote in message
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I have a laptop that had Vista Ultimate installed on the C drive and Office
2007 setup on the D drive. the C partition was formatted and I need to
recover the mailbox from Outlook 2007. I cannot locate where Outlook keeps
the Mailbox files. I see it talks about PST files but even on my own
system I
cannot locate a .PST file using the same setups.
I have looked inside c:\users\*username*\*.pst and found no PST files at
all. I have searched the C and D drives for *.pst and found nothing.
I am looking at my own functional laptop and cannot find the default
location where Outlook 2007 keeps mail, contacts and such.
Can anyone help?

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