Recover Outlook 2000 Files from a removed Hard Drive

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Brett

I have removed (all data intact) a hard drive from a PC that has a
motherboard issue.

How can I recover the Outlook 2000 files from the drive and incorporate into
the new machine, Office alreay loaded, all software versions are identical.
 
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Tim

Install the hard drive temporarily in the new PC (you may have to change the
jumpers from Master to Slave), copy the file, and remove the hard drive. If
you can't add the hard drive to the new PC (maybe the new PC is SATA only
and your hard drive is EIDE), you could purchase an external USB enclosure,
install the drive in the enclosure, connect it to the new PC via the USB
port and copy your file.

Oh...by "recover the Outlook 2000 files" I am assuming you mean your pst
file and not the Outlook program itself.

Tim
 
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Brett

Installing the "old" drive into the "new PC is not an option. The operating
system wil not run (Windows XP Pro).

The "old" drive is in an external enclosure now and I have already extracted
the data files from the owners account except for the Outlook files.

In the interim, I will try to boot from a USB drive on a simlar machine.....

More idaes can be helpful....

Time, I appreciate your help.
 
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gls858

Brett said:
Installing the "old" drive into the "new PC is not an option. The operating
system wil not run (Windows XP Pro).

The "old" drive is in an external enclosure now and I have already extracted
the data files from the owners account except for the Outlook files.

In the interim, I will try to boot from a USB drive on a simlar machine.....

More idaes can be helpful....

Time, I appreciate your help.
Click to expand...

You don't need to boot from the drive only access it. If it's already in
an enclosure and you can access the drive look for a .pst file. It
contains all of the Outlook info. Just copy it to the same location
as the .pst on the new install and tell it to replace it. Keep in mind
this will overwrite the current .pst file. I'm assuming the new install
of Outlook hasn't been used yet.

gls858
 
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DL

"Dont overwrite" any existing pst as it will likely corrupt it.
Copy it to any accessible hd location, eg My Documents, then open it within
OL
 
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Brett

okay folks, I have looked for a .pst and it appears that that particular file
is created when you export your outlook data.

Can anyone tell me the name(s) of the files that contain the emails, contact
list, task list, etc. in an operational copy of Outlook 2000??
 
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Tim

I didn't mean to imply that you should boot from the "old" drive. Either
make it a secondary drive (that's what I meant by changing the jumper from
Master to Slave) or put it in an external enclosure. Any OS that supports
NTFS (assuming that is how the drive is formatted) will be able to read the
drive. In general, that means XP, Win2k, and Vista.

Since you have already copied other needed data files, it's obvious you have
access to the old drive. Now you just need to find the pst file and copy it
to the new PC. Is your question really where to find the pst file?

Tim
 
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XS11E

Brett said:
Can anyone tell me the name(s) of the files that contain the
emails, contact list, task list, etc. in an operational copy of
Outlook 2000??
Click to expand...

It's Outlook.pst and Personal Folders.pst in Outlook2003, should be
similar in Outlook2000.
 
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gls858

DL said:
"Dont overwrite" any existing pst as it will likely corrupt it.
Copy it to any accessible hd location, eg My Documents, then open it within
OL
Click to expand...

Copying over the existing .pst simply replaces it with the one the user
had in the previous installation program. I have heard that importing
the pst can cause corruption.

gls858
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Overwriting WILL cause corruption. Importing simply loses data.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, gls858 asked:

| DL wrote:
|| "Dont overwrite" any existing pst as it will likely corrupt it.
|| Copy it to any accessible hd location, eg My Documents, then open it
|| within OL
||
|| ||| Brett wrote:
|||| Installing the "old" drive into the "new PC is not an option. The
|||| operating system wil not run (Windows XP Pro).
||||
|||| The "old" drive is in an external enclosure now and I have already
|||| extracted the data files from the owners account except for the
|||| Outlook files.
||||
|||| In the interim, I will try to boot from a USB drive on a simlar
|||| machine.....
||||
|||| More idaes can be helpful.... Time, I appreciate your help.
||| You don't need to boot from the drive only access it. If it's
||| already in an enclosure and you can access the drive look for a
||| .pst file. It contains all of the Outlook info. Just copy it to the
||| same location
||| as the .pst on the new install and tell it to replace it. Keep in
||| mind this will overwrite the current .pst file. I'm assuming the
||| new install of Outlook hasn't been used yet.
|||
||| gls858
||
||
|
| Copying over the existing .pst simply replaces it with the one the
| user had in the previous installation program. I have heard that
| importing the pst can cause corruption.
|
| gls858
 
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Tim

Hi Milly,

Would you please clarify something for me? For many years (since back to
when they first came up with pst files) when I have re-installed Outlook or
changed to another PC I have used the following steps:

1) Install Outlook and allow it to create the default pst file.
2) Create an e-mail account with bogus server information so I do not
accidentally download new messages to this empty pst file
3) Exit from Outlook
3) Rename the new (and empty) pst from outlook.pst to outlook_old.pst
4) Copy the "real" pst file to Outlook's default folder
4) Start Outlook, enter proper server information, and I'm back in business

Is this what you would term as "overwriting" the pst? Or are you talking
about replacing the pst file while Outlook is still running? I just want to
be sure about what your definition of "overwriting" is. I have never had a
problem with corrupting a pst file but maybe I've just been lucky all these
years.

Thanks,

Tim

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Overwriting WILL cause corruption. Importing simply loses data.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, gls858 asked:

| DL wrote:
|| "Dont overwrite" any existing pst as it will likely corrupt it.
|| Copy it to any accessible hd location, eg My Documents, then open it
|| within OL
||
|| ||| Brett wrote:
|||| Installing the "old" drive into the "new PC is not an option. The
|||| operating system wil not run (Windows XP Pro).
||||
|||| The "old" drive is in an external enclosure now and I have already
|||| extracted the data files from the owners account except for the
|||| Outlook files.
||||
|||| In the interim, I will try to boot from a USB drive on a simlar
|||| machine.....
||||
|||| More idaes can be helpful.... Time, I appreciate your help.
||| You don't need to boot from the drive only access it. If it's
||| already in an enclosure and you can access the drive look for a
||| .pst file. It contains all of the Outlook info. Just copy it to the
||| same location
||| as the .pst on the new install and tell it to replace it. Keep in
||| mind this will overwrite the current .pst file. I'm assuming the
||| new install of Outlook hasn't been used yet.
|||
||| gls858
||
||
|
| Copying over the existing .pst simply replaces it with the one the
| user had in the previous installation program. I have heard that
| importing the pst can cause corruption.
|
| gls858
 
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DL

No, that isnt overwriting the pst
Overwriting is when you replace a same name pst with another of the same
name.
Allways ensure OL is closed, and not shown in running processes, before
doing anything with the *.pst

Tim said:
Hi Milly,

Would you please clarify something for me? For many years (since back to
when they first came up with pst files) when I have re-installed Outlook
or changed to another PC I have used the following steps:

1) Install Outlook and allow it to create the default pst file.
2) Create an e-mail account with bogus server information so I do not
accidentally download new messages to this empty pst file
3) Exit from Outlook
3) Rename the new (and empty) pst from outlook.pst to outlook_old.pst
4) Copy the "real" pst file to Outlook's default folder
4) Start Outlook, enter proper server information, and I'm back in
business

Is this what you would term as "overwriting" the pst? Or are you talking
about replacing the pst file while Outlook is still running? I just want
to be sure about what your definition of "overwriting" is. I have never
had a problem with corrupting a pst file but maybe I've just been lucky
all these years.

Thanks,

Tim

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Overwriting WILL cause corruption. Importing simply loses data.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, gls858 asked:

| DL wrote:
|| "Dont overwrite" any existing pst as it will likely corrupt it.
|| Copy it to any accessible hd location, eg My Documents, then open it
|| within OL
||
|| ||| Brett wrote:
|||| Installing the "old" drive into the "new PC is not an option. The
|||| operating system wil not run (Windows XP Pro).
||||
|||| The "old" drive is in an external enclosure now and I have already
|||| extracted the data files from the owners account except for the
|||| Outlook files.
||||
|||| In the interim, I will try to boot from a USB drive on a simlar
|||| machine.....
||||
|||| More idaes can be helpful.... Time, I appreciate your help.
||| You don't need to boot from the drive only access it. If it's
||| already in an enclosure and you can access the drive look for a
||| .pst file. It contains all of the Outlook info. Just copy it to the
||| same location
||| as the .pst on the new install and tell it to replace it. Keep in
||| mind this will overwrite the current .pst file. I'm assuming the
||| new install of Outlook hasn't been used yet.
|||
||| gls858
||
||
|
| Copying over the existing .pst simply replaces it with the one the
| user had in the previous installation program. I have heard that
| importing the pst can cause corruption.
|
| gls858
Click to expand...
 
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Tim

Thanks DL...follow-up question: as long as Outlook isn't running and does
not appear as a running process, what is wrong with replacing a pst file
using the same name as the original (hope that made sense)? I'll guess that
you will say that you risk corrupting the pst...if so, why *would* that
corrupt the pst? Is there something in the registry that would/could get
screwed up?

Thanks.

DL said:
No, that isnt overwriting the pst
Overwriting is when you replace a same name pst with another of the same
name.
Allways ensure OL is closed, and not shown in running processes, before
doing anything with the *.pst

Tim said:
Hi Milly,

Would you please clarify something for me? For many years (since back to
when they first came up with pst files) when I have re-installed Outlook
or changed to another PC I have used the following steps:

1) Install Outlook and allow it to create the default pst file.
2) Create an e-mail account with bogus server information so I do not
accidentally download new messages to this empty pst file
3) Exit from Outlook
3) Rename the new (and empty) pst from outlook.pst to outlook_old.pst
4) Copy the "real" pst file to Outlook's default folder
4) Start Outlook, enter proper server information, and I'm back in
business

Is this what you would term as "overwriting" the pst? Or are you talking
about replacing the pst file while Outlook is still running? I just want
to be sure about what your definition of "overwriting" is. I have never
had a problem with corrupting a pst file but maybe I've just been lucky
all these years.

Thanks,

Tim

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Overwriting WILL cause corruption. Importing simply loses data.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, gls858 asked:

| DL wrote:
|| "Dont overwrite" any existing pst as it will likely corrupt it.
|| Copy it to any accessible hd location, eg My Documents, then open it
|| within OL
||
|| ||| Brett wrote:
|||| Installing the "old" drive into the "new PC is not an option. The
|||| operating system wil not run (Windows XP Pro).
||||
|||| The "old" drive is in an external enclosure now and I have already
|||| extracted the data files from the owners account except for the
|||| Outlook files.
||||
|||| In the interim, I will try to boot from a USB drive on a simlar
|||| machine.....
||||
|||| More idaes can be helpful.... Time, I appreciate your help.
||| You don't need to boot from the drive only access it. If it's
||| already in an enclosure and you can access the drive look for a
||| .pst file. It contains all of the Outlook info. Just copy it to the
||| same location
||| as the .pst on the new install and tell it to replace it. Keep in
||| mind this will overwrite the current .pst file. I'm assuming the
||| new install of Outlook hasn't been used yet.
|||
||| gls858
||
||
|
| Copying over the existing .pst simply replaces it with the one the
| user had in the previous installation program. I have heard that
| importing the pst can cause corruption.
|
| gls858
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