How do I restore my contacts in Outlook 2003 after replacing the .

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Dewey - 28 Mar 2006 16:19 GMT

I have a backup copy of the contents of the old hard drive on an external
drive, but I haven't been able to find the contact list in order to move it
to the new drive and use my address book.

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William [MVP] - 29 Mar 2006 09:09 GMT

Find any .pst files on the old drive?

Then File --> Open --> Outlook Data File

You can then drag and drop between data files.

>I have a backup copy of the contents of the old hard drive on an external
> drive, but I haven't been able to find the contact list in order to move
> it
> to the new drive and use my address book.

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Brian Tillman - 29 Mar 2006 20:06 GMT

> I have a backup copy of the contents of the old hard drive on an
> external drive, but I haven't been able to find the contact list in
> order to move it to the new drive and use my address book.

If your old drive was a Windows XP drive, enable viewing hidden files and
folders and then look in

x:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook

This folder should contain your old PST which, in addition to your Contacts,
contains all your other Outlook data as well, like the calendar, the email ,
the tasks, and so on. Open it in Outlook with File>Open>Outlook Data File.

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