Restoring old Outlook address book

[Josh]

I recently reformatted my computer which had been running
windows 98. Before I did this I made a complete backup of
the hard drive onto an external drive.

I have now installed windows 2000 on the freshly cleaned
drive and I would like to retrieve my address book from
the backup.

In which file is my address book located if I was using
Outlook running on Windows 98? And where would I move
this file to allow my new copy of Outlook to read it?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook has no address book. All Outlook data is in one file. 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:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm