Rising from the flames?

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My hard disk has developed hard disk dandruff and Windows
2003 is no more.

So I've got a new hard disk (actually mirrored this time)
and installed 2003 and so on.

Now I want to put outlook on there and have it look JUST
like it did before the crash. I still have access to the
Document and Settings folder which is where most of the
files are.

I've had to do this a few times before, but I've never
quite got it right and generally had to re-enter my
accounts and rules and stuff. I've also usually spent
AGES messing around with this. Obviously I don't have
access to the original registry (as much of the disk is
toast). I've also never found anything to the point
through Google...

Can anyone provide a short succinct description of the
files that need to be copied across and or whatever to
make this an easy transition?

Thanks,

Iain
 
-----Original Message-----
Hello Iain,
first read this to recreate your "old" Outlook.
Rules will be import by the Rules wizard.
http://home.arcor.de/andreas.roeder-privat/English% 20Help.htm#18
If you want to get permission to your "old" registry go in regedt32 and
there you could change the permissions.
Click to expand...

Thanks for this, Andreas. It's VERY useful.

I was hoping to skip the import per se. My main pst file
is 600MB and my archive 1.5GB. But I do know how to copy
and reconnect my Archive folder. The main pst seems to
have come across, but right at the end it says *error*
(with no more information!). But most stuff seems to be
there.

I do not have access to the registry. The old machine is
dead as a computer (though survives as a hard disk).

Actually the most important thing is probably the email
accounts - I have a dozen or more and it will be hard to
find all the passwords and so on.

Finally (!) You have to do something to get the rules
option to show up but I can't remember what!

thanks for your help - Oh, I'm on Win 2003 Outlook 2003.

Iain
 
Importing the pst should apparently be avoided, if possible.
Simply open pst in OL
With the archive; set the various archive properties to point to the
location of yr archive
I assume yr refering to OL2003, with a pst in 2003 format, there is a pst
size limit on previous versions.
 
-----Original Message-----
Importing the pst should apparently be avoided, if possible.
Simply open pst in OL
With the archive; set the various archive properties to point to the
location of yr archive
I assume yr refering to OL2003, with a pst in 2003 format, there is a pst
size limit on previous versions.
Click to expand...

thanks.

I seem to have imported the pst - at least there's
nothing obvious missing.

What I'm keen to do is to restore my email accounts (and
rules) but I don't know where to find the account info
(nor have I managed to turn this info up in msdn or
technet). Can anyone help?

Iain
 
email account details are stored in the registry, I'm not sure of the
practibility in trying to recover them, other than if you had previously
used OL to export them, in any case I dont believe passwords would have been
saved.
 
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