Help with Outlook and Explorer Please

ecchi · 2005-01-05, 09:13 PM

It's a long and boring story as to how I got in this state (and more importantly it makes me look stupid) so I won't post it here. But the situation is this:

I have got Windows 2000 Professional on my master (boot) drive and a Windows 98 in a corrupted form on my slave drive. Although much of Windows is corrupted on the slave, it still has working copies of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express on it. These have bookmarks and (most importantly) emails on them that I need to get at.

The problem is that whatever I try to do to open them, they always use the bookmarks and emails on the master drive, not their own ones. I would guess that this is because they automatically look on the C drive rather than the drive they are on.

My problem is that I desperately need to get at the bookmarks and emails on the old drive. Particularly the emails (I can live without the bookmarks, but I must get to the emails ASAP). So I want to be able to do one of two things.

1. Open Outlook and Explorer and make them look on the old drive for the emails and bookmarks, so I can read them.

OR 2. Move the files containing the emails and bookmarks on my E drive to my C drive.

However I have no idea how to make (1) happen and I cannot find the correct files to do (2).

Please can anyone help me, getting to the emails is urgent, and I am about to loose clients if I don't do it ASAP.

HC-Majick · 2005-01-05, 09:22 PM

this should help:

http://www.noccc.org/bytes/articles/v01/551.html

tiny · 2005-01-05, 10:30 PM

Don't know about the bookmarks but I use this for outlook if you don't have anything in win2000 outlook you'd do fine

http://www.abf-soft.com/outlook-express-backup.shtml

and worth paying for

ecchi · 2005-01-08, 02:19 PM

majick - Thanks, it was a nightmare job but I have now seceded. The info on http://www.noccc.org/bytes/articles/v01/551.html was just what I needed but it only works if both Outlooks are on the same version of Windows, so I just spent 2 days changing drives, formatting with one version of Windows, transferring files, forwarding the emais to myself, then formatting the drives again, changing drives, downloading and sorting emails, etc.. It was not my idea of fun, but it had to be done or I was going to loose clients. Thanks a lot for saving my bacon.

tiny - Thanks, although that did not help with my previous problem (as I could not open the old version of Outlook to use it) I will look into it tomorrow to back up in future to prevent me ever getting into this mess again. However my first task is to go out and get drunk, I need it after the last few days.

2005-01-05, 09:13 PM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Help with Outlook and Explorer Please It's a long and boring story as to how I got in this state (and more importantly it makes me look stupid) so I won't post it here. But the situation is this: I have got Windows 2000 Professional on my master (boot) drive and a Windows 98 in a corrupted form on my slave drive. Although much of Windows is corrupted on the slave, it still has working copies of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express on it. These have bookmarks and (most importantly) emails on them that I need to get at. The problem is that whatever I try to do to open them, they always use the bookmarks and emails on the master drive, not their own ones. I would guess that this is because they automatically look on the C drive rather than the drive they are on. My problem is that I desperately need to get at the bookmarks and emails on the old drive. Particularly the emails (I can live without the bookmarks, but I must get to the emails ASAP). So I want to be able to do one of two things. 1. Open Outlook and Explorer and make them look on the old drive for the emails and bookmarks, so I can read them. OR 2. Move the files containing the emails and bookmarks on my E drive to my C drive. However I have no idea how to make (1) happen and I cannot find the correct files to do (2). Please can anyone help me, getting to the emails is urgent, and I am about to loose clients if I don't do it ASAP.

2005-01-05, 09:22 PM	#2
HC-Majick You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 541	this should help: http://www.noccc.org/bytes/articles/v01/551.html

2005-01-05, 10:30 PM	#3
tiny Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some tang it would be you Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: maine Posts: 447	Don't know about the bookmarks but I use this for outlook if you don't have anything in win2000 outlook you'd do fine http://www.abf-soft.com/outlook-express-backup.shtml and worth paying for

2005-01-08, 02:19 PM	#4
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	majick - Thanks, it was a nightmare job but I have now seceded. The info on http://www.noccc.org/bytes/articles/v01/551.html was just what I needed but it only works if both Outlooks are on the same version of Windows, so I just spent 2 days changing drives, formatting with one version of Windows, transferring files, forwarding the emais to myself, then formatting the drives again, changing drives, downloading and sorting emails, etc.. It was not my idea of fun, but it had to be done or I was going to loose clients. Thanks a lot for saving my bacon. tiny - Thanks, although that did not help with my previous problem (as I could not open the old version of Outlook to use it) I will look into it tomorrow to back up in future to prevent me ever getting into this mess again. However my first task is to go out and get drunk, I need it after the last few days.