Recovering Outlook Express data after switching to Outlook 2002

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Howard D

My motherboard recently failed, so I upgraded my computer
to a faster motherboard, new disk as drive C:, and I
moved my previous drive C: to drive D: so that I could
retain old data files. I also installed Microsoft XP
Professional and Microsoft Office XP Professional, which
includes Outlook 2002. Previously, we used Outlook
Express as our mail program.

We still have old mail messages and contacts on our D:
drive, but the Outlook Express program is no longer
available as an installed program.

Does anyone have any ideas how I could recover some of
the information from the old mail messages and contact
information?

Thanks in advance,

Howard D.
 
Thanks for your idea, Michael. I didn't get the prompt,
and I'll bet that it's because Outlook Express was
installed on the drive I moved to drive D:, and when the
new drive C: was made the "system" drive under the new
operating system (XP), all the programs previously
installed were no longer operational (not registered,
etc.)

That's probably why Import doesn't work either -- it
can't find my old messages and contact addresses, because
there is no longer an installed Outlook Express program.

Howard D.
 
Outlook 2002 needs Outlook Express to work properly, anyhow, so you
might as well make sure OE is installed on your new hard drive. Once it
is, you can import your old OE data into the new copy of OE -- see
http://insideOE.tomsterdam.com for help with that -- and then export it
to Outlook.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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