Hi Guys,

I wonder if some one could please help me.  My wifes Dell XPS laptop has just died with a power supply fault on the mother board.   This will take a few weeks to fix.  In the mean time i need to WORK out how I can set her up to continue to work with her e-mail, and I'm struggling, so advice is sort.

Her system is running Vista, with outlook 2007, and SINCE the laptop will no longer power up, I have removed her hard drive, and installed it onto my desk top PC (as drive D, not the boot disk) USING the SATA drive cables.  My PC runs windows XP pro, and outlook 2002.  I can SEE her disk, and access the files on it.   I have also been able to set her up to receive and send new emails on my PC, but my question is does anyone know if and how I can import the outlook files from the hard drive of a Vista PC, into my XP pro PC, so she can VIEW her old correspondence for the next week or two while we wait for Dell to come and fix the problem.  Clearly anything solution has to be able to be run form XP, not Vista.  (To be honest I'm having trouble finding the files on the vista hard drive - but I know they are there somewhere)

Thank for your help.

kind regards
Jester9erI would not personally attempt to load a later version of an Outlook data store into an earlier one.  Well, I might, but I would make darn sure I had a backup copy first.  I don't have much hope of success, but you should find the file somewhere under the hidden "Application Data" folder or the "Local Settings" folder. These will be in your wife's User Data folder.  Ensure Windows Explorer is configured to view hidden files and folders.

Let us know if you need more guidance.Thanks for the quick reply Rob.

I've managed to find the files now, and I must say I too don't hold up much hope of getting the new files to open in an older version of Outlook, but I'm ever hopeful that, given all the trouble with vista in the early days, someone has worked out how to do it.  Anyway, I'll back up the files and hope someone here might be able to help.

So attached in the word document, is the screen shot of Zorana's (my wife) outlook directory.  Anyone know of any free tools that might be able to down save these files (one or more, I'm not sure how many I need), to work in Outlook 2002.  Or any suggestions of which files I might need to copy over?

Thanks
Dave




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