Recover inbox after disk crash

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Dave

After a recent problem with a hard drive I have had to uninstall MS
office XP from the computer. The disk was part of a mirrored set and
some very strange things have happened. Anyway I can now load outlook
up and see all my email messages but then an error message pops up and
says "Outlook in not installed for this user" then exits.

Where does outlook store the emails? and how can I get to them. I will
install office again soon but I am going to do a complete reinstall of
windows and format the disk so I want to back up everything first.

Any ideas? TIA.
 
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neo [mvp outlook]

If working with a POP3/IMAP account, the items should be stored in file(s)
with a *.PST file extension. Since you didn't state what operating system
you are working with, I would open a command prompt and do the following.

1) Start | Run | type: command.com | ok button
2) cd c:\
3) c:
4) dir *.pst /a /s
5) note path/filename locations
 
D

Dave

If working with a POP3/IMAP account, the items should be stored in file(s)
with a *.PST file extension. Since you didn't state what operating system
you are working with, I would open a command prompt and do the following.

1) Start | Run | type: command.com | ok button
2) cd c:\
3) c:
4) dir *.pst /a /s
5) note path/filename locations
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Thanks for the help - I found a copy of outlook from an old SPV mobile
phone so I installed that an everything is working fine now.
 
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