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Ian Ponting - 11 Aug 2006 22:51 GMT

Several weeks ago my motherboard died. The disk drive was ok and I had the
M/B processor and power supply plus a new drive installed. Since it
essentially is a new computer my old drive is a data drive. So I reinstalled
outlook onto my old drive where it resided before the new M/B and as well as
word etc. So far all I been able to find is my emails. I know the contacts
with email addresses are there somewhere. How do I retrieve them? I had a
suggestion from a user group that did not work.

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Brian Tillman - 14 Aug 2006 21:31 GMT

> Several weeks ago my motherboard died. The disk drive was ok and I
> had the M/B processor and power supply plus a new drive installed.
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> somewhere. How do I retrieve them? I had a suggestion from a user
> group that did not work.

All Outlook data (i.e., mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, journal) is
kept in the same file. If you opened the old PST properly and set it up as
your delivery location you'll haev access to everything you has before.
State exactly how you configured Outlook and we may be able to tell you
what's wrong. Make sure you include your version of Outlook because there
are differences between each version.

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Ian Ponting - 15 Aug 2006 02:32 GMT

Thanks Brian, I changed location of the old pst file and it worked perfectly.
My error was originally copying the file to the new location not pointing to
it.

> > Several weeks ago my motherboard died. The disk drive was ok and I
> > had the M/B processor and power supply plus a new drive installed.
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> what's wrong. Make sure you include your version of Outlook because there
> are differences between each version.

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