contacts "file"

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dennis

I recently recovered from a virus on my hard drive. sadly
some windows files were corrupted and I decided to copy my
data files from the "old" hard drive to a second computers
hard drive. Was going to reinstall windows, but a friend
asked me about all my contacts i had with outlook.

What I am wondering is this... is there i file i can copy
from the "old" hard drive (assuming that it was not
corrupted) to the new drive so that when i install outlook
again, i will retain all my contacts. any help or ideas
on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

As my windows in currently coppurt, I cannot even access
outlook to do an export now. Am I just SOL, or can this
be salvaged?
 
A friend of mine sent this to me and wanted to run it past
this forum first.....

Open Outlook.
Go to File, then "Import/Export".

In the "Import/Export Wizard", select "Import from another
program or file". Then Next.

In "Import a File" box, select "Personal Folder File
(.pst)". Then Next.

In file to import, select browse, then "Look In"... via
the drop-down menu, look for your contacts folder on the
old drive....Locate the "Contacts" folder, open it, and
single click/select the file named "contacts".
Then "Open".

After getting back to the Import Personal Folders box, you
are now faced with some options. Be careful here.
Select "Replace duplicates with items imported" only if
you want to replace the contact listings you currently
have. If you have manually edited certain contacts (i.e if
you enhanced contact information beyond the usual email
and phone information), then this will replace it. If you
select "Allow duplicates to be created", then you will get
the updates (i.e new hires) but also you will have 2
entries for the many contacts you already have. You will
then need to review the Contacts and delete the duplicate
item you do not want to keep. Or, you can select "Do not
import duplicates". This is probably the best choice, as
it will update only the contacts you do not have. This
will keep what you have but update the new contacts.
Finally, select Next.

At the "Select the Folder to import from" prompt, single-
click/select "Contacts" only. There is no need to
check "Include subfolders" here. Import items into the
same folder in "personal Folders". Then Finish.
 
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