Migrate Outlook XP pst to Vista Mail

[ctyankeeinok]

I recovered an Outlook.pst file from a failing machine running Office XP and want to migrate the contents to a new machine running Vista. I want to bring over all the old messages, folders, and address book. I have not done this migration before and I don't want to mess it up ;-)

 

[smah]

Windows mail can import the messages from the .pst file directly. However contacts are going to be more of a problem - I don't see any direct import path.

 

[ctyankeeinok]

Thanks for the prompt reply. I am not sure if the email addresses to save are in the address book or contacts. I could not get Outlook to run on the failing machine (it was going down fast!).

Can I rename the old Outlook file to save.pst and open it in Vista to see what is in it?

 

[smah]

pst files will only open with outlook. So if Outlook is not installed on the vista machine, you will not be able to directly open it. However, since this is all the data that you have, it's very prudent to make a copy of the pst file & work with the copy.