Contact Backup

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Chris Davinroy

Pardon me for repeating my question, but i added a new
post to an old question and cannot even find my original
question. So I guess that no one even found it to read
it so i will repeat it. -- phew! that was a mouthful.

Anyway. I have a machine where Windows XP Pro locks up on
boot. I am in the middle of fixing that by doing a
complete clean install. but I want to get the contacts
and the mail off of that system. I installed the hard
drive on this computer and went looking for
the .pst, .ost, and .pab files that I have read about in
the newsgroups. I cannot find them in the Mircrosoft
Office directory. I then further read where it could be
anywhere on the system, but I've already deleted the
Windows directory.

Also, I have tried to load up the other system's Office
XP on this system that i am using, but it keeps pulling
up MY information and contacts and old mail.

Thanks in advance and many gratitudes for a quick answer.

CD
 
********** thank you very much. I did that 3 times last
night, but figured since I had my folders set to show
hidden and system files, they would show up. They will
not unless you go into your search options and set it. I
found both the outlook.pst and the archive.pst files.

Thanks again.
Chris

-----Original Message-----
They could be anywhere. Just search for *.pst and make sure you've enabled
the search and display of hidden files.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Chris Davinroy said:
Pardon me for repeating my question, but i added a new
post to an old question and cannot even find my original
question. So I guess that no one even found it to read
it so i will repeat it. -- phew! that was a mouthful.

Anyway. I have a machine where Windows XP Pro locks up on
boot. I am in the middle of fixing that by doing a
complete clean install. but I want to get the contacts
and the mail off of that system. I installed the hard
drive on this computer and went looking for
the .pst, .ost, and .pab files that I have read about in
the newsgroups. I cannot find them in the Mircrosoft
Office directory. I then further read where it could be
anywhere on the system, but I've already deleted the
Windows directory.

Also, I have tried to load up the other system's Office
XP on this system that i am using, but it keeps pulling
up MY information and contacts and old mail.

Thanks in advance and many gratitudes for a quick answer.

CD
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