My old PC died, main board crash, I have the old hard drive connected to my new PC through a USB cable, it comes up as drive F: - I want to transfer my email files and ADDRESS book from the old drive Outlook, to the new drive C: Outlook - both use MS Office XP (Office 10) - I can't find the old files, there is no .PAB or .PST file that I can find. I've also searched the terms mail and contacts but can"t find anything I can recognize. I tried the Import function in Outlook but could not find anything appropriate to import. Can you help?? What am I missing?? (Can you tell this is my first forum??)What method did you use to attempt to find .PST on the old hard drive?I changed viewing to see hidden files then did a search of the old drive.So, right click on Start, Search, then what? Did you check the box for subfolders? Did you select the entire drive F as the starting point?I searched the entire old drive INCLUDING sub folders. I actually found a pst file but it was old data.Have you retrieved anything from that hard drive?

I don't KNOW what else to suggest. I just plan to continue avoiding such a dilemma by backing up stuff to an external hard drive. If that hard drive works OK, you might get an external enclosure for a hard drive and install that hard drive in it, thereby creating an external hard drive. Thanks for TRYING.