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re: recovering email files XP Professional Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 11:50 am Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) Which email client are you/were you using ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: recovering email files XP Professional Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 12:07 pm Posted by Mark (422 messages posted) If you are using Outlook Express that comes with XP, you will need to locate the ".dbx" files that comprise your various OE folders and import them, for instance, on my login, mine are kept in :C:\Documents and Settings\Mark L\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{0561C0B3-1B8F-46E2-8921-4ECFFB951DD3}\Microsoft\Outlook Express Hope this helps... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: recovering email files XP Professional Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 2:29 pm Posted by alex (2812 messages posted) "I've got an image of the the drives before things "restore the image that's what the image is for,it is all there.Don't know what program you used to create the image but I think all of them ask you to make a rescue floppy in DOS. On Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 10:42 am, Frank Beech wrote: >Following a 'melt down' hard drive failure I'm in the process of restoring programs >and data onto a new hard drive. I'm at a loss to incorporate previously received >emails into the newly constituted 'In box'. > >I've got an image of the the drives before things took a turn for the worse! > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >FTB [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: recovering email files XP Professional Monday, January 5, 2009 at 6:40 am Posted by Romasurus !!! (413 messages posted) Most IMAGING programs have a program built into the software (IMAGEExplorer or a name something like that) to look at the files and folders in the IMAGE and to replace just the needed files to anywhere you would like. So if after your reload, install the IMAGING program and then you should be able to EXPLORE your IMAGE for the files needed at the previous posters location. On Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 10:42 am, Frank Beech wrote: >Following a 'melt down' hard drive failure I'm in the process of restoring programs >and data onto a new hard drive. I'm at a loss to incorporate previously received >emails into the newly constituted 'In box'. > >I've got an image of the the drives before things took a turn for the worse! > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >FTB [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: recovering email files XP Professional Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 2:37 am Posted by Frank Beech (3 messages posted) Thanks to Mark, MartinM, Alex and Romasurus -I've been on a learning curve with this - thus far I've recovered about 2.5K emails (Outlook Express) but nothing after 2005 - so I continue to work at it! Thanks. FTB On Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 10:42 am, Frank Beech wrote: >Following a 'melt down' hard drive failure I'm in the process of restoring programs >and data onto a new hard drive. I'm at a loss to incorporate previously received >emails into the newly constituted 'In box'. > >I've got an image of the the drives before things took a turn for the worse! > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >FTB [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: recovering email files XP Professional Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 5:19 am Posted by Romasurus !!! (413 messages posted) Just because your original HD stopped working properly, doesn't mean that it is unaccessible. You may still be able to connect it as a slave drive and still access the data. Just make sure after it is properly connected, the BIOSm is set to boot to the new drive. Of course if your old drive had the terrible click click clik sound coming from it, you are then probably out of luck. On Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 10:42 am, Frank Beech wrote: >Following a 'melt down' hard drive failure I'm in the process of restoring programs >and data onto a new hard drive. I'm at a loss to incorporate previously received >emails into the newly constituted 'In box'. > >I've got an image of the the drives before things took a turn for the worse! > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >FTB [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: recovering email files XP Professional Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 2:12 am Posted by Frank Beech (3 messages posted) Following my 'sojourn in the wilderness' - a 'clinical' approach to this problem has evolved - which is: Using Windows Explorer applied to the saved image go - Documents & settings -then named folder (in my case Frank Beech )- , then, Local Settings - Application data - Identities - copy folder to new hard drive and import under File in Outlook Express. Thanks to everyone - you've been helping a slow learner! FTB On Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 5:19 am, Romasurus !!! wrote: >Just because your original HD stopped working properly, doesn't mean that it is unaccessible. >You may still be able to connect it as a slave drive and still access the data. Just >make sure after it is properly connected, the BIOSm is set to boot to the new drive. >Of course if your old drive had the terrible click click clik sound coming from it, >you are then probably out of luck. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum