get info from old C drive

[mrpergo]

Here's the deal, I bought a new Samsung 830 SSD.
I took the old HD out put the Samsung in and loaded Windows 7 clean install thinking all I had to do to get the info from the old C was to put it in my external esata enclosure and get the info. I'm finding its not that easy.
I pretty much have everything back to normal on the new drive but cannot get my folders and contacts from Outlook 2003. I've gone to users/me/appdata/outlook on the old drive and copied the files to the new drive and it doesn't show the old stuff.
Any tips , hints, software HELP 🙂

 

[kleinkinstein]

You simply need to import the old/original *.ost and *.pst files.

 

[sm625]

Be very careful importing outlook files. I found that my old files appeared to import successfully, but when I actually browsed through my old files one day, I found that all my old files were all the same. Somehow it had botched the import in such a way that it got all the names correct, and subject, and sender. (All the headers were fine.) But all the bodies of all the files were the same. I had to redo my import and was lucky I had kept my backup after importing.

This is why I hate using tools like this to import and export. I'm much rather just copy files from one location to another. That way I know everything is right. I dont know why this basic functionality in outlook is dumbed down and simultaneously complexified (like typical apple software).

 

[rsutoratosu]

just copy the psts file over if you have them in pst and go to file open - open pst and it'll mount

 

[mrpergo]

Okay I finally got the mail & contacts, for anyone needing to do this in the future on the old drive it was in C/users/name/appdata/local/microsoft/outlook
I kept trying to import from roaming and getting nothing.
All is good. I won't forget this learning lesson thats for sure lol