Restoring Outlook Emails From HD

[sitalchauhan]

My windows xp started reporting errors of missing DLLs on boot and wouldnt load XP. A repair installation wasnt working and I searched the internet and basically the only way was to install a fresh copy and start from scratch.

I have installed a fresh copy of xp onto another hard drive and inserted my original hard drive as a slave data drive.

I am copying all of my important files from my old HD onto my new one.

However, I had many emails in Outlook on my original hard drive.

Is there any way I can restore my emails?

I foolishly never thought of exporting my outlook emails for a backup and now realise how many important emails I had

Thanks for any help you are able to provide,
Sital

[sitalchauhan]

Just to let you know that I have now sorted this and incase anybody else is wondering I will post my solution.

I installed Outlook onto my new XP install.

Then on my old hard drive, I navigated to:
C:\Documents and Settings\(*Username*)\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Then there is a file in there called "outlook.pst".

On my new XP HD I just opened outlook and imported this .pst file and it restored every single email again

I think Ive learnt my lesson now on backing emails up