Guest DRod Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Hi, I just changed hard drives on my laptop but I forgot to export my info from Outlook. Is it possible to copy/paste a file(s) from my old hard drive to get back all my contacts and calendar? I use Outlook 2007, XP Pro SP2
Guest Gordon Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Re: migrate outlook from old hard drive "DRod" <DRod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DBF36CB1-F8B4-492B-9936-48D998585F27@microsoft.com... > Hi, > I just changed hard drives on my laptop but I forgot to export my info > from > Outlook. Is it possible to copy/paste a file(s) from my old hard drive to > get > back all my contacts and calendar? > > I use Outlook 2007, XP Pro SP2 > Do NOT use the import/export function to move Outlook data. Why? (Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]) Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose: 1. Custom Forms 2. Custom Views 3. Connections between contacts and activities 4. Received dates on mail 5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar 6. Journal connections 7. Distribution Lists Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise people to import a native file into Outlook. As to the answer, buy a USB drive case for your old drive, install it and connect to your laptop. Search for *.pst. Copy it to your new HDD. DO NOT OVERWRITE THE EXISTING PST FILE. In Outlook do File-Open-Outlook Data File and browse to your copied file. You then have two options - either set that pst file as the default mail delivery location, or copy the data from that file to your new file. HTH
Guest WShackelford Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 Re: migrate outlook from old hard drive I tried this route and it worked just fine, but I now have two sets of calendars and email inboxes/etc. onboard at the same time. For example, under My Calendars, there's a box for Calendar and 2nd box for Calendar in Personal Folder. Checking both gives me two side-by-calendars, one in white background, the older one in green. The "new" calendar is empty btw -- I'm recovering from a hard drive mishap and data rescue that worked: it's reading the old .pst file just fine, it seems. Also, all accumulated emails received since the crash are stored separately on my server, so I think they'd make into Outlook somehow. Is there a way to consolidate them into one? Or, is this perhaps a situation where overwriting the current empty "new" .pst file with the recovered one is a good idea? "Gordon" wrote: > "DRod" <DRod@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:DBF36CB1-F8B4-492B-9936-48D998585F27@microsoft.com... > > Hi, > > I just changed hard drives on my laptop but I forgot to export my info > > from > > Outlook. Is it possible to copy/paste a file(s) from my old hard drive to > > get > > back all my contacts and calendar? > > > > I use Outlook 2007, XP Pro SP2 > > > > > Do NOT use the import/export function to move Outlook data. > Why? > (Courtesy of Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]) > > Importing an entire PST may well corrupt your profile and may create a ghost > PST that you can't close. Importing PST's will lose: > 1. Custom Forms > 2. Custom Views > 3. Connections between contacts and activities > 4. Received dates on mail > 5. Birthdays and anniversaries in calendar > 6. Journal connections > 7. Distribution Lists > > Opening a PST file will preserve all of these. That is why we do not advise > people to import a native file into Outlook. > > As to the answer, buy a USB drive case for your old drive, install it and > connect to your laptop. Search for *.pst. Copy it to your new HDD. DO NOT > OVERWRITE THE EXISTING PST FILE. In Outlook do File-Open-Outlook Data File > and browse to your copied file. You then have two options - either set that > pst file as the default mail delivery location, or copy the data from that > file to your new file. > > HTH > > >
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