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OL2K and contact list from "refreshed" XP computer ...
I did a "refresh" of XP Home on a desktop ... and forgot to backup-export
the contacts, settings, etc. in Outlook 2K. The contacts were visible and email could be received using OL ... but sending would not work ... some error about a missing address book would always come up. Then disaster struck: The motherboard apparently had been flakey and now it does not not boot ... nor recognize the existance of the HDD ... or even another (test) HDD. This is at the BIOS level. Putting the HDD on another PC as slave, will let one look at the contents of the HDD. I did a search on the whole drive for *.pst and came up with nothing. What does this indicate? Does it sound hopeless in terms of recovering the contacts? Thanks ! -RS- |
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OL2K and contact list from "refreshed" XP computer ...
PST files are hidden files. Just find it, copy it, and use it in a new
Outlook profile. The data is probably fine. You only disrupted the Outlook Address Book connection, not your actual data. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "RS" wrote in message ... I did a "refresh" of XP Home on a desktop ... and forgot to backup-export the contacts, settings, etc. in Outlook 2K. The contacts were visible and email could be received using OL ... but sending would not work ... some error about a missing address book would always come up. Then disaster struck: The motherboard apparently had been flakey and now it does not not boot ... nor recognize the existance of the HDD ... or even another (test) HDD. This is at the BIOS level. Putting the HDD on another PC as slave, will let one look at the contents of the HDD. I did a search on the whole drive for *.pst and came up with nothing. What does this indicate? Does it sound hopeless in terms of recovering the contacts? Thanks ! -RS- |
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