Post-crash, what to do (Outlook q.)

[Mommadeez4u]

Well, after a fucking week of working on it I ended up completely reinstalling windows xp. I can't say precisely what the fucking problem was, except that it was most likely either a very root level driver conflict, out of date mother board drivers, or a hardware failure which will happen again soon.

I was able to essentially upload both my hard drives onto a large external hard drive so I wouldn't lose critical info like drawing CAD files and email addresses. Which leads me to this question: I know that Microsoft Outlook's email and other info is stored in a proprietary .pst file, right? Is there any way that I can migrate all my old emails and email addresses into my newly installed copy of Outlook?

[circpro]

Did you save the pst file before reinstalling? What version of Outlook?

[Mommadeez4u]

Yes, it was saved when I was able to rescue everything from the crashed hard drives and copy it over to this external I have.

It's Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.

[circpro]

Try this:

Importing a pst-file can only be done in a working Outlook situation like when you've reinstalled your machine, configured Outlook and now want to restore your Inbox and Contacts. Importing a pst-file can be done in two different ways; automatically through a wizard or manually by dragging and dropping. Before importing restore your pst-file; Copy the file to the location where you want to work with it like D:\My Documents\My Outlook\Temp. If you restored from CD/DVD make sure you uncheck the "Read Only" file attribute by right clicking the file and choose Properties.

Restore through the Import and Export Wizard

1. Choose File-> Import and Export...
2. Choose Import from another program or file
3. Choose Personal Folder File (.pst)
4. Browse to the location where you've restored the pst file (D:\My Documents\My Outlook\Temp)
5. Set the options to "Include subfolders" and "Import items into the same folder in:" and select the folder that is listed as your Outlook Today folder set in the dropdown list
6. Press Finish to complete the import
7. Restart Outlook and remove the export.pst file from the Temp directory if desired

Restore manually

1. Choose File-> Open-> Outlook Data File...
2. Browse to the location where you've restored the pst file (D:\My Documents\My Outlook\Temp)
3. You'll now see an additional set of folders added to your folder list which you can expand. Expand the list and select the Inbox folder
4. In this folder select the messages you want to restore to the original Inbox folder
5. Drag & drop them to the default Inbox folder
6. Do the same for the Contacts folder. You might want to set your view to a list view so you can easily select and move the items. To change the view choose View-> Arrange By-> Category
7. Now that the importing is complete right click the pst-file added in step 2 and choose Disconnect
8. Restart Outlook and remove the export.pst file from the Temp directory if desired


or search here if that doesn't help http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/

[Mommadeez4u]

Thanks Mister!