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Forum: Outlook - Installation July 26th 06, 06:15 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
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Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

Yes.

I had to copy those install files over from the old drive manually, open
Outlook, and run detect and repair. That worked for me.



"Ed Y" wrote:

I haven't done the DOS option yet. I just...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 26th 06, 12:23 AM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
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Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

Did it work when you tried it from DOS? That would have been my next strategy.

The last time around, I unhid the "protected operating system files" in
addition to the hidden files. It still didn't...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 12th 06, 11:50 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
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Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

I'm not a technical guy, but my best guess is that it's a combination of 2
factors:

1) This was my first time doing this with a machine running Windows XP. XP
does its best to protect us from...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 12th 06, 03:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
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Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

Mr. Tillman had the answer - for reasons unknown, the software does not copy
the Windows/Installer folder at all if you leave "view protected system
files" unchecked, incompletely if you check it....
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 10th 06, 11:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
Replies: 24
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Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

Since I can't work with Outlook in a "send only" mode, I removed the new
drive and put the old one back. There have been no hiccups with Outlook,
Word, or Excel over the past 5 days, so I don't...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 10th 06, 06:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
Replies: 24
Views: 1,794
Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

No - this was Western Digital's "Data Lifguard" software. Works just like
MaxBlast (probably the same program with a different GUI) so I wouldn't be
surprised if it's the same problem. I'll...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 9th 06, 05:57 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
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Views: 1,794
Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

Bear with me here, I don't mean to sound argumentative, but I'm having a
little trouble understanding how, if I make a complete mirror image of drive
A on drive B, and then replace drive A with...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 8th 06, 07:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
Replies: 24
Views: 1,794
Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

Even if I'm creating a mirror image of the old drive? That makes no sense.

I've done this several times before on other computers using the same
transfer software and have had no problem with...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 8th 06, 05:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
Replies: 24
Views: 1,794
Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

I didn't install it on the new drive. Western Digital supplies software that
copies the entire contents of your old drive to the new one. I've done this
many times (with theirs and similar software...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 8th 06, 03:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
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Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

I don't think the PST file is the problem - I tried creating a new one with
the same results.

"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

For the record, you should never export and import an entire...
Forum: Outlook - Installation July 7th 06, 07:30 PM Posted to microsoft.public.outlook.installation
Replies: 24
Views: 1,794
Posted By Garylk
Upgraded Hard Drive, Now Outlook 2003 won't receive messages

of A very similar scenario to the following query 11/25/04 (Western Digital
drive, etc.):

Patrick wrote:
Installed a new hard drive today, copied over all files from old boot
disk (used Western...
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