My desktop’s power supply fried. Hard drive is fine, thankfully.
So I take the hard drive out, put it in an IDE->USB enclosure, plug it into my laptop. The laptop reads the drive just fine.
I want to access the inbox of MS Outlook on the old drive. How to? If I wind my way to the outlook.exe on that drive and run it, it loads the inbox on the laptop’s primary drive.
The latop DOES have the contacts and calendar already, since I was smart enough to export/import that prior to the crash.
Have you tried importing outlook.pst from C:\Documents and Settings\user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook ?
Can’t find any such folder. Under Documents and Settings on the old drive, there are three folders, Administrator, All Users and my user_id. None of those folders have anything labeled local settings or application data.
Actually a search did turn up such a folder, but its hidden I think. How do I unhide in Vista? (Sorry, this laptop is my first time with Vista).
Open up a file explorer window, and then hold down the alt key to show the menu. Then, select Tools/Folder Options/View. One of the items on that list should be “Show hidden folders…”
This worked perfectly, once I knew where and how to look. Many, many thanks Mystery.