How do I recover email from outlook? -See details -?

Question

PC had Win2k installed in c:\winnt and outlook 2k
I updated the machine to office 2003 (including outlook 2003)
I backed up all email/folders/contacts/etc. to a .PST (on a network drive)
Rather than doing a HDD wipe and fresh install I installed WinXP (fresh from CD) into c:\windows Leaving the install of win2k in c:\winnt
Then I installed office 2003 and many other programs.
I imported the backup file (from a network drive) thinking everything went great.
A few days later they call saying all the e-mail is not there.
They had e-mail from 2003-present. It only had e-mail from this past year.

I tried grabbing the original .pst files (the mail file, and the archive) from the old \documents and setting directory and importing them.

The best result I got was the original welcome message from outlook, dated in 2003. From there the e-mail started back up in 2006.

I need to know if there is anything else I can do to recover these missing messages. (yes I did see them in before this)

Answer 1

click on help in outlook and also here is a tip site. search their archive.

http://www.outlook-tips.net/

also look for help here

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☞ http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/default.mspx

◙ Official Internet Explorer 7+ Blog

☞ http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/03/24/560095.aspx

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◙ Here is another great forum for discussing Microsoft Windows and Linux problems.

☞ http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/

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Answer 2

Hopefully the backups are still there (pst files). Sounds as if I may be telling you something you already know, but on the very slim chance you don't: one ********* thing Outlook may do to them (did it to me, watch out!) is if they have ActiveSync, set up with a PDA as peer? If Outlook detects the PDA is "senior" in dates, Outlook may "wipe" emails. I suppose the same sort of thing could happen across any sort of sync-ing network. If *that*'s not it, then maybe he import happened into a folder *not* the main email folder but rather a "personal" email copy of the main email folder? (At one time I had a client who had "inbox" subfolder under "archive" and things ended up really messy for awhile...)

Answer 3

Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express ?? There is export/import feature pls try this