Move Outlook to New Disk (after crash)

[Kit Marty (CHM Consulting)]

I am running WXP SP3 and Office 2007 SP2. I had to replace my hard drive
today. I backed everything in my "Documents and Settings" folder on my old
hard drive to a portable drive.

Now, I am back up and running, but I need to know how to move all of my
Outlook information (emails, calendar, contactss, etc.) to the new disk and
still maintain all the rules I made up over the years as well as all the
caledar color-coding, etc.

Can you help me here?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

The file you need is not normally included in Documents and Settings. Let's
hope you put it there.
The file you need is your Personal Folders file (*.pst) It's where all the
mail, calendar, contacts etc are stored.

Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup or transfer:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Howto/backupandrestore.htm
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010771141033.aspx

Note that some of the information on these pages is outdated and no longer
applies to Outlook 2003 or 2007. Specifically:
1. Ignore any advice to copy your PST file to Outlook's default location to
connect it to your profile. Doing so only corrupts your profile. Copy it
anywhere BUT the default location and open it within your Outlook profile.
2. Ignore any advice that tells you to use export or import to transfer
Outlook data. That has never been sound advice, but the process has become
too deeply flawed now to be of any use whatsoever.