Recover Outlook from crashed computer

[Mike Paulus]

Lighting recently hit near my brothers business, and fried most of the electronics and surge protectors, including his business computer. We went out and bought a new one from Best Buy(Time constraints). I put in the hard drive from his fried computer, and it is working fine as a slave in the new system now, so I can get all his files off. He used outlook for pop3 email through yahoo premium, as well as contacts for all his clients, and the calender he used for scheduling. This is the only place he has all the contact information for some 500+ clients. Hes needless to say kinda freaking out, the calender has all his appointments and he will miss most of them until we can get it recovered.
The Fried computer is Windows XP with Office 2007 professional, and new computer is Vista Home Premium with Office 2007 Professional.
How do I recover from this?
Thanks,
Mike

 

[DL]

So he ran a business, using a PC and didnt have any backups - lesson learnt?
Generally you copy the old outlook data files, *.pst files, from the
origonal disk to Documents in Vista, then in Outlook, File>Open>Data
File......browse to the location.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/backupandrestore.htm
You will also likely need to 'take ownership' of the origonal
Folders/Files - see win Help
PS You dont copy the data files to the Vista/Outlook default location