inbox and "sent items" don't show after reinstalling Outlook 2002

[Mark_Galeck]

Hello,

I have recently upgraded from Win XP Home to Pro. I have one disk
with Windows, and another on which I store all data - this is in
attempt to protect data when I upgrade or reinstall the OS. So I
disconnected the data drive, and reinstalled Windows. Then
reinstalled Outlook 2002, and opened the Outlook.pst file on the data
drive, as well as 2 archive files I had there.

Well, the inbox and "sent items" are gone. I know they are stored on
the same "outlook.pst" file that stores other "Personal Folders",
right? So why can I see the other personal folders, but in these two,
there is nothing?

I tried demo versions of 2 outlook recovery programs, both don't show
anything either.

How can this be - the data drive was protected, nothing happened to
the file, yet Outlook after reinstalling, won't see inbox and sent??
Anyway the size of the outlook.pst file seems way too large, for what
I am seeing...

Thank you for any ideas... Mark

 

[Mark_Galeck]

OK never mind, turns out there was another file, that apparently
Outlook stores inbox and sent, in a different file, on the Windows
drive. I bought some recovery software, $50, and recovered that file,
no problems. Ouch, saved my ass easy this time, could have been much
worse.

 

[Brian Tillman]

OK never mind, turns out there was another file, that apparently
Outlook stores inbox and sent, in a different file, on the Windows
drive.

Um, no. All of Outlook's default folders (i.e., Calendar, Contacts, Deleted
Items, Drafts, Inbox, Journal, Notes, Outbox, Sent Items, and Tasks) MUST
all exist in the same PST.