How can i get a address book and emails back in outlook express when the old outlook express dir is on another HD ?

[WyteWatt]

Ok this person copied all of the files from the orginal C drive to a new D drive then formated the C drive and reinstalled windows. All the old data from the last windows 98 is on D. How would this person get their address book and emails back in their outlook express? They still have the outlook express directory and everything. We tried copying the .wab in D:/windows/application date/Microsoft/Outlook express i think it was to the C drive in C:/windows/application date/Microsoft/Outlook express. But outexpress just created a new .wab file when we started it up again. We tried imports the .wab file from D:/windows/application date/Microsoft/Outlook express but it said it had a error. Also how would i get all of the emails back for this person?

Thanks

 

[JustStarting]

open your address book in outlook on the machine where the addresses are that you want to recover. choose export, and choose where you want to store it. open outlook on the other drive and import the adress book. just forward the emails to yourself, then log off quickly, and open them on the other drive when you log in.

 

[WyteWatt]

JustStarting opening the address book on the other hard drive (D) by the .wab file just opens the C drive address book which is blank. How do i open the address book on the D drive then?

 

[JustStarting]

how did you copy the files?? I think you are getting errors becuase the d drive is looking for the registry entries on c which you have formatted. you should have installed outlook on d instead of copying from c. basically, if you just copied everything to d, outlook is looking for the registy entry on the c drive and its not there anymore.

 

[WyteWatt]

JustStarting ok. So how would i get my address book back then please?

Thanks