Running MS Outlook from a slave drive?

[mroels]

My laptop's motherboard recently went to hell but the hard drive was still good. So i bought a new laptop yesterday and am currently trying to transfer all my crap from my old drive onto my new laptop. Basically i'm running my old hard drive as a slave drive through a USB port. Anyway I'm having a hard time with Outlook. I can't find my old saved emails anywhere nor my old adress list. These things are very important to me. Does anyone know what the extensions are or where i would find this stuff on my old hard drive. Now basically everytime i run Outlook it just fires up the program installed on the new comp. Help please..

[TheTROLL]

The file you need to recover will have a *.pst extension. There may be several on the old drive, the biggest one is likely the one you need. Choose File/Open/Outlook Data File from your new Outlook installation to use it.

[mroels]

no *.pst extensions found? now what? any specific folders i should look in? i ran a search for the whole drive.

[stabn]

Are you sure we are talking outlook and not outlook express? OE would be .dbx i believe.

[mroels]

yeah it is MS Outlook not Outlook Express

[stabn]

Had to ask on the OE thing, a lot of people confuse it :P.

The directory to look in for the files would be:
C:\Documents and Settings\OLDWINDOWSUSERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Where c:\ and OLDWINDOWSUSERNAME should be replaced with the drive letter of your slave drive and the username you were using for your old windows login on the other drive. Both \local settings \ and \application data\ will be hidden if you browse the folders instead of directly typing the path in the address bar.

[mroels]

Thanks I found it. One more question though: Do I have to copy these files?

EDIT: I guess I do since I just ran Outlook without the slave drive hooked up and it didn't work but do I copy these files to C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook? Or put them elsewhere? Will they then automatically load when I start up Outlook?