OUTLOOK- Where are my saved emails?

[Bugler]

My machine has crashed and I am sending it in for warranty repair to determine if it is a motherboard or cpu type issue, as I have ruled out most everything else. I want to wipe my harddrive before I send it in as I do not want anyone going thru my data. I have the harddrive pulled out and tethered to another machine while I copy files off onto a portible harddrive (xdrive).

Most of the stuff is moved. I want to also save and later reload, my saved sent and received outlook emails. I just have to determine where those files are located on the harddrive so that I can use windows explorer to drag them over to the portible device.

Where would I find these records on the harddrive? The system that crashed was running win xp pro and office xp. The harddrive is tethered to a win98 machine and I am running software to allow the 98 machine to see the xp pro drive.

Thanks

 

[WobbleWobble]

Are you talking about the individual mail messages that you dragged and dropped into a Windows folder of the Outlook mail box?

Do a search for *.pst on the drive and you should be able to find them.

 

[Megatomic]

The default filename is outlook.pst. On my XP computers it is located in C:\Documents and Settings\Megatomic\Local Files (?)\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Hope this helps.

 

[Bugler]

Cool. Thank you guys.

I presume that once my system is repaired and software reinstalled, that I can simply put this file back in the same location and it will work as normal and my prior sent and received emails will be in the same place in outlook.

Thanks again.

 

[Megatomic]

I usually just import from the location that I saved the .pst to. That way I keep the original file. But yes, it should work that way.

 

[bluemax]

I had the same problem. Again.

Glad I used Search rather than Post!

Posting and you!

And once again the same saviours to the rescue.