Need help to recover user data from another disk drive.

[Brainsquishy]

History:
I recently purchased a new 160G Western Digital hard
drive from a computer vendor. The drive to drive copy
did not work out right (bla bla bla) so now I have the
old drive as a slave and the new western digital as the
boot drive with a fresh windows xp install. I can not
(with the proper jumper and cable connection config) boot
up the "old drive" because the operating system was
corrupted during the whole affair. My system is now
working fine but here is the problem.

Problem:
I was running Office XP on Windows XP. The last
archiving was done seven months ago. (I'll set it right
this time). The current personal folders in the damaged
drive including contacts, inbox (add the seperate email
folders I made for it) with all the recent (7 months
worth) email, calander entries etc should still be on the
old drive intact (I hope). The old drive is set as a
drive letter on my new system setup and all the data is
accessable on it.
Please assist me in locating the proper folders to copy
from the old drive(E and paste into the new drive(C
so my newly installed Office XP functions exactly like it
did before this major catastrophy with all the data
inplace. This data is very important as I run a small
business from this computer.
I seems to me that when Outlook is opened it looks for
the current data file(s)(not the archived data) to show
in the personal folders.
Please help.
Brainsquishy

 

[Brian Tillman]

Problem:

I was running Office XP on Windows XP. The last
archiving was done seven months ago. (I'll set it right
this time). The current personal folders in the damaged
drive including contacts, inbox (add the seperate email
folders I made for it) with all the recent (7 months
worth) email, calander entries etc should still be on the
old drive intact (I hope). The old drive is set as a
drive letter on my new system setup and all the data is
accessable on it.
Please assist me in locating the proper folders to copy
from the old drive(E and paste into the new drive(C
so my newly installed Office XP functions exactly like it
did before this major catastrophy with all the data
inplace.

Copy the .pst file from the old drive to the new, placing it anywhere on the
new drive that you please. The default location in which Outlook looks for
it is
C:\Documents and Settings\{user}\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

After putting the old PST file where you want it, on OL, click
"File">"Open">"Outlook Data File" and browse to where you placed the old PST
file. Select it and click "Open". You should have all of your old
information.

You can do one of two things. If your new PST file contains nothing of
value, with Outlook not running, simply delete it and replace it with the
old PST file. Restart Outlook and you should have all of your COntacts,
Calendaring, Tasks, messages, etc. just as you did before. The other thing
you can do is to open the old as I decribed above and move all of the info
from the old to the proper folders in the new. You can then close the old
and when you close Outlook, delete the old PST file.
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Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
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