Copy accounts when export not possible?

[eman6]

Following a Windows XP hopeless damage, I installed Vista Business in another partition.
I also installed Outlook 2003 with Vista (in addition to Office 2003)

NOW:
I want to have my email accounts from the XP outlook, but I cannot start XP anymore to run Outlook and export or anything.
I still have all the files and folders from XP in the other partition.

There must be a folder that I can copy and past in the new Outlook.

Any clue??

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Eman6
Technical User

 

[smah]

If it was a standalone installation of Outlook, you'll be looking for a single .pst file. Most commonly named outlook.pst, but it could be something else. You might also find an archive.pst which will be older, archived items.

 

[eman6]

Hi Smah
Thank you for the reply.
I copied the pst file already.
It contains the messages with all the folders and subfolders, but NOT the email accounts (



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Eman6
Technical User

 

[Servamatic]

The only way I know that you can do the email accounts is if you had used the "Save Office Settings" tools, it will save the accounts minus the password.
I tried this with older versions and never could find a file that held this information. Gave up trying when MS came out with "Save Office Settings" tool.

Richard S. Anderson, RCDD

http://www.servamatic.net

 

[donb01]

Try looking in here. This might just be where the data files are stored and have nothing to do with the actual accounts, but I've recovered systems before with this data - I just can't remember whether I had to recreate the accounts or not....

In an exchange environment this data is stashed somewhere else I have never found yet - probably on the server.

C:\Documents and Settings\<YOUR LOGIN NAME>\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\

Sorry if this was a wild goose chase...

 

[smah]

The actual account information (username, password, mailserver, etc) is stored in the windows registry, not a simple file.

 

[eman6]

Thank you all for this input.
Somehow you forgot that I said my previous Windows XP has been damaged, so there is no way I can export or use a tool. The only windows I have running now is Vista.
Is there a way I can reach the XP registry when I am running Vista in a different partition?
I have Vista in C: and XP (damaged, not runable, looping eternally at the start point) in the D:
See what I mean?

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Eman6
Technical User

 

[smah]

I did not forget what you wrote, that's where the account info is (despite the fact that you can't get to it). How many accounts could there be? Why not just re-enter the account info into this new installation? It could have already been done in the time it took to type this.

 

[eman6]

Smah
I guess you are absolutely right.
My wife and myself have a number of accounts managed in Outlook. Having taken so much time to re-install all the software, one feels lazy to re-enter everything.
Also, it would be good to know if it is at all possible to copy information even from the registry without having to actually run Windows XP itself.
Isn't the registry a file written somewhere in the hard disk? Probably only God and Microsoft know where it could be found and how to extract information from it.

I will re-enter the email accounts this week-end, I guess, because during the week I work, and I work far away from home.

Thanks for trying to help

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Eman6
Technical User

 

[smah]

The windows registry is comprised of several files, but these files can not normally be directly examined/accessed from another windows installation. Information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_registry

There are some third party utiilities that supposedly can access the data in the damaged operating system's registry, but I have no experience with them. In addition, even if they do work, the potential exists that these utilities could inadvertently import some damaged registry entries which could conceivably been the cause of the problem in the first place (unlikely in your case since you're only after mail account info, but nonetheless quite possible). Here's one example of such an application that I ran across with a quick search.

http://www.mitec.cz/wrr.html

I'm sure that there are plenty of others that google can come up with. I still think that it's safer & easier to manually enter the 4 pieces of information needed for each account.