Restore Contact / Address book from OLD PC

[chesspupil]

I have my friends motherboard-dead PC here at my home and she needs her
outlook address book retored to her new computer (I think she means
contacts, but perhaps they are one and the same.)

I have her hard drive removed and am able to read the hard drive data
in it perfectly via USB. The OUTLOOK program I have (07) was able to
open the PST file she had, (and review the email she had) but I could
not find the PAB file.

Oddly enough her PST file was in the ROOT folder (C:\)

I Do not believe she ever exported the address book with the old PC.
Her new PC does not yet have OUTLOOK installed yet, but we can proceed
with that once she has the files needed.

She has a separate (initial email plus one other) PST file in the
application data folder, and a 1KB dat file.

I realize she should be able to manually rebuild the address book from
her emails, but I was hoping for a simpler solution.

Any ideas?

 

[alice1975]

I have my friends motherboard-dead PC here at my home and she needs he
outlook address book retored to her new computer (I think she mean
contacts, but perhaps they are one and the same.)

I have her hard drive removed and am able to read the hard drive dat
in it perfectly via USB. The OUTLOOK program I have (07) was able t
open the PST file she had, (and review the email she had) but I coul
not find the PAB file.

Oddly enough her PST file was in the ROOT folder (C:\)

I Do not believe she ever exported the address book with the old PC
Her new PC does not yet have OUTLOOK installed yet, but we can procee
with that once she has the files needed.

She has a separate (initial email plus one other) PST file in th
application data folder, and a 1KB dat file.

I realize she should be able to manually rebuild the address book fro
her emails, but I was hoping for a simpler solution.

Any ideas?

What version of Outlook does she use? PAB (personal address book) is
really old format. Most people use the contacts folder for contacts, s
if you can get the PST file, you'll have the contacts too

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I have her hard drive removed and am able to read the hard drive data
in it perfectly via USB. The OUTLOOK program I have (07) was able to
open the PST file she had, (and review the email she had) but I could
not find the PAB file.

The PAB has been obsolete for over ten years. No one should be using it any
more. All your contacts should be in the Contacts folder.

Oddly enough her PST file was in the ROOT folder (C:\)

There is no magical location for a PST. You can place it in any folder where
you have read/write permission.

She has a separate (initial email plus one other) PST file in the
application data folder, and a 1KB dat file.

You can have as many PSTs as you like. The DAT file contains add-in
references, built when Outlook is run for the first time. Delete it and it
will be recreated when Outlook next starts.

I realize she should be able to manually rebuild the address book from
her emails, but I was hoping for a simpler solution.

There is no separate address book.

 

[chesspupil]

OK, I have seen DBX files and have confirmation from my noob friend tha
sheet was using OUTLOOK EXPRESS, so O an looking for OUTLOOK EXPRESS o
XP restore instructions.

Thank

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Posted already. Suggest learning to read newsgroups instead of continuing to
send so many folks off to help you.