IT help required.

[turbo pete]

I have just rebuilt my PC. It has gone from a 1.5gb hard drive to 40Gb, Processor and board is up from 133mhz to 800Mhz and stacks more memory. I have kept the old 1.5Gb hard drive and put it in as a slave.

Now for the question. I had been using outlook express for reading my emails. I have a newly installed Win 98 on my new hard drive. the old one was win 95. Inside the outlook expresss screen I had set up folders containing emails from all my friends and associates.

How can I copy the old folders into the new hard drive. i have not wiped the old content off the small hard drive which is now operating as the slave?


Help much appreciated.

turbo pete

[turbo pete]

Help

[Chris_Lacey]

Errm.. what most people do is export all their mail first.. before annihaltating the OS :p

However, I will look into it for you, should have an answer in about 2 mins :-)

[Chris_Lacey]

Okay, the files you require are all with .dbx extensions.

In the case of Outlook Express they are found in c:\windows\application data\identities\?????\mircrosoft\Outlook Express

The ??? Corresponds to a folder name created by the Windows product key, and is machine specific.

The specific files you want to keep are inbox.dbx, sent.dbx and folders.dbx

Hope this helps. :)

[ 28-02-2002: Message edited by: DL ]

[turbo pete]

Cheers

Do you know where all the address book files will have been kept?

Turbo pete

[andyf]

address book files usually show up as .WAB - I'm not sure if these are naturally visible or whether you have to have exported first ?

[andyf]

Ah yes,

C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book

that's where my Win98 one was found

[BabyBrother]

Assuming you intend to keep the old disk as a slave you don't need to copy anything.
Just go into the options of Outlook and tell it to look on the D drive rather than the C drive for your user files.

BB

[beavertron]

yep - open outlook - tools, options, maintenance, store folder. :D