Outlook 2002 Recovery

[Paul W. Jones]

I had a problem or conflict with a WinXP Service Pack
update that seems to have made a WinXP partition
unusable, rebooting just runs into errors, various
recovery attempts did not work, so I went to a backup and
put that on another hard disk. The backup was a bit old,
so it doesn't have my current Outlook 2002 mail. The
corrupted disk is still readable, it just won't boot, so
what I'd like to do now is figure out how to copy my
Outlook 2002 data over the recovery directories. I
cannot run export/import on the corrupted partition,
since WinXP won't run there, but I would think if there
was a way of identifying the old data, I could just xcopy
it over. Any hints on where Outlook 2002 stores all of
its data?

Thanks.

 

[Conrad Pfleging]

The default location is C:\documents and settings\<username>\local
settings\application data\microsoft\outlook. It's a hidden file/folder, so
make sure you're searching in hidden folders.