Outlook contacts recovery

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Terry B. - 13 Nov 2003 16:39 GMT

My hard drive recently failed (with MS Outlook 2002 on it containing
MANY Contacts!) and will not boot up so I installed a new drive and
installed "MS Outlook 2002" I can access my data on my original drive
(I set it up as a slave drive)...is there any way that I can retrieve
those contacts fron my original drive??? I can't "run" the program
from my old hard drive, or can I???

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 13 Nov 2003 21:43 GMT

The file you need is your Personal Folders file (*.pst) It's where all the
mail, calendar, contacts etc are stored.

Take a look at these pages for info on Outlook data backup:
http://www.slipstick.com/config/backup.htm

Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

> My hard drive recently failed (with MS Outlook 2002 on it containing
> MANY Contacts!) and will not boot up so I installed a new drive and
> installed "MS Outlook 2002" I can access my data on my original drive
> (I set it up as a slave drive)...is there any way that I can retrieve
> those contacts fron my original drive??? I can't "run" the program
> from my old hard drive, or can I???

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