Changed out mobo, can I retrieve my old mail?

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I recently had a motherboard fail. With the new motherboard I am unable to
boot into the old install of XP I had. After I tried it not properly find
all the chipset/devices and rendered that XP install corrupt. With another
drive I re-installed XP. Is there a way, since I cant boot into the old
drive, to retrieve my Outlook XP stuff (mail specifically) such as mail,
contacts, accounts. I am sure this has been brought up before, but I havnt
found an answer yet.

Thanks.
 
You don't need the operating system on your old drive; you just need to be
able to access the files. If you can see the old drive, just do a search for
"pst." When you find that "outlook.pst" file you will have located the file
that contains all of your stuff.
jor
 
Scott said:
I recently had a motherboard fail. With the new motherboard I am
unable to boot into the old install of XP I had. After I tried it
not properly find all the chipset/devices and rendered that XP
install corrupt. With another drive I re-installed XP. Is there a
way, since I cant boot into the old drive, to retrieve my Outlook XP
stuff (mail specifically) such as mail, contacts, accounts. I am
sure this has been brought up before, but I havnt found an answer yet.
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You should have done a repair installation of Winxp, there was no need to
install to a diff.hd
 
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