recover outlook contacts data from broken computer's hard drive

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I'm trying to recover my contacts folder from my outlook files on a hard
drive of a computer with a fried motherboard. We are using the hard drive by
attaching it to the new computer via a usb port. The computer sees it as
another hard drive. I have searched for .pst files and tried copying them,
and importing them, but nothing has worked. In the instructions here for
copying files from one computer to another, it first says to backup the data
into a .pst file, copy it to media, and copy it to the other computer. In my
case, I can't backup anything to a .pst file because the original computer is
dead. Any ideas?
 
What happens when you try to copy a PST file from the old hard drive to the
new one? That's probably the first thing you have to do.
 
Lots of us said:
I'm trying to recover my contacts folder from my outlook files on a
hard drive of a computer with a fried motherboard. We are using the
hard drive by attaching it to the new computer via a usb port. The
computer sees it as another hard drive. I have searched for .pst
files and tried copying them, and importing them, but nothing has
worked.
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What happens when you try?
In the instructions here for copying files from one computer
to another, it first says to backup the data into a .pst file, copy
it to media, and copy it to the other computer. In my case, I can't
backup anything to a .pst file because the original computer is dead.
Any ideas?
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Since the PSTs reside on the old computer's HD and you have that attached to
your new PC, they should be available.
 
I'm beginning to think that we already overwrote the PST file while trying to
move it to the new hard drive. At one point my husband created a contact
record in outlook(not sure why), and right now, there is no PST file on the C
drive of the machine, only on the E drive--the hard drive from the other
machine. When I locate Outlook.pst on the E drive, left click on it, and use
the open with Outlook function, all I get is this new record that he created.
Outlook must have used the E drive because that is the only place it found
the right kind of file????? Is there any way that the old data is still
recoverable?
 
Could there be more than one PST on the E drive? It doesn't have to be named
Outlook.PST as long as it has a PST extension
 
lots of us said:
When I locate
Outlook.pst on the E drive, left click on it, and use the open with
Outlook function, all I get is this new record that he created.
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That's not how to open a PST. Start Outlook first and then click
File>Open>Outlook Data File, browse to the PST, select it, and click OK.
 
We just installed a "new" used motherboard and cpu into the old laptop and it
is up and running. The only problem is still my pst file. We corrupted it
somehow. When we bring up Outlook on the now working computer it says that
c:....outlook.pst is not an outlook data file. Is there a way to recover the
original file? If not, should I just delete it and let outlook create a new
one?
 
lots of us said:
We just installed a "new" used motherboard and cpu into the old
laptop and it is up and running. The only problem is still my pst
file. We corrupted it somehow. When we bring up Outlook on the now
working computer it says that c:....outlook.pst is not an outlook
data file. Is there a way to recover the original file? If not,
should I just delete it and let outlook create a new one?
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There are companies that offer tools that may help. Check
http://www.recover-my-email.com/ ,
http://www.officerecovery.com/outlook/index.htm , I saw a post in one of
the other Outlook groups from someone working for a company that is
developing a PST recovery tool and is offering to fix PSTs free, but after
twenty minutes with Google Groups I wasn't able to find the post again.
 
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