I have just installed a new hard drive. I reinstalled Office 2003 on the new
drive and configured my e-mail. Now I have put the old drive in as a "slave"
to my new hard drive. I am trying to get my e-mail and contacts from my old
installation on the old drive. I have had no luck so far. I was not able to
create backups before I put the new drive. Computer power supply crash
issue.

So how can I access the old files on the old hard drive?

Thanks for any and all help
Keith in Las Vegas

Re: New HDD old files? by DL

DL
Fri Jul 04 17:46:58 PDT 2008

You will probably have to 'take ownership' see win help. then simply open
your old data file within outlook and copy stuff from old to the new data
file

"Keith Howard" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Gazbk.14469$rH1.7827@newsfe20.lga...
>I have just installed a new hard drive. I reinstalled Office 2003 on the
>new drive and configured my e-mail. Now I have put the old drive in as a
>"slave" to my new hard drive. I am trying to get my e-mail and contacts
>from my old installation on the old drive. I have had no luck so far. I was
>not able to create backups before I put the new drive. Computer power
>supply crash issue.
>
> So how can I access the old files on the old hard drive?
>
> Thanks for any and all help
> Keith in Las Vegas
>



Re: New HDD old files? by John

John
Mon Jul 07 15:32:23 PDT 2008


"Keith Howard" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:Gazbk.14469$rH1.7827@newsfe20.lga...
>I have just installed a new hard drive. I reinstalled Office 2003 on the
>new drive and configured my e-mail. Now I have put the old drive in as a
>"slave" to my new hard drive. I am trying to get my e-mail and contacts
>from my old installation on the old drive. I have had no luck so far. I was
>not able to create backups before I put the new drive. Computer power
>supply crash issue.

Did the PS crash affect the (old) hard disk? I've had a burned PS (loud
*pop* + smoke and stinking burned smell) that killed the HD as well.

> So how can I access the old files on the old hard drive?

So you've connected the old HD as slave but you didn't say what happened
when you accessed the data. Can you access the data?