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[jasony]

I need to reinstall Win98, but must first back up all of my email to my &quot;D&quot; drive. The problem is that I cannot get into Windows, so I need to find these files, and copy them to &quot;D&quot; in DOS. Does anyone know where these files are, what the file extensions are, and how i get them to copy to &quot;D&quot; ?? I am using Outlook Express, and win98se if it means anything.<br>
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Thanks,<br>

 

[pmkincaid]

You should find them in C:\windows\application data\microsoft --- somewhere in there. Sorry I don't have a 98 machine to give you the exact place, but hopefully that helps.

 

[gsd]

I am using win98 se and outlook express 5.<br>
Sorry if this is to simple I am not sure what you do or do not need to know<br>
My e-mail files are stored:<br>
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C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\*******\Microsoft\Outlook Express<br>
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The above ***** will be numbers and letters unique to your id. There should be .dbx files that have your sent, drafts, folders, deleted, etc. I would backup the full directory.<br>
To copy in dos. First go to the directory ( I assume your at a dos prompt now)<br>
cd C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Identities\*******\Microsoft\Outlook Express<br>
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Say you want the files to go to d:\bkupmail<br>
type <br>
d: enter(this takes you to d drive)<br>
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md d:\bkupmail (this makes a directory on your d drive)<br>
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type while in the directory you want to copy from:<br>
copy *.* d:\bkupmail\*.*<br>
the above command will copy the files from the c: to the d:<br>
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type d:<br>
type cd d:\bkupmail<br>
type dir (When you type dir this will list the files in this folder probably a good idea to make sure they copied). <br>
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? when you reinstall win98 are you going to format the hard drive or fdisk?<br>
Is your d drive a partition or second physical drive? Depending on what you are doing you may want to back up your data on a tape drive or some other backup device.<br>