Transferring Emails to New Hard Drive

[pjphilli (Peter)]

Hi
I have been transferring all my astro programs etc to a new computer.
The old drive has crashed and I cannot start it as a master and it will not reload Windows XP. However, I have set the old hard drive to a slave so that all my data is available.
All is going well but I would like to transfer my old email information across to the new drive. The Files and Settings Transfer Wizard in XP is supposed to aid in this. However, although I appear to have captured the .dbx files in a folder, transfer to the new drive does not happen.
Any clues?
Cheers Peter

[Tandum (Robin)]

Setup outlook express on the new machine and then select file/import from the overhead menus. Tell it to import from a data store and point it to the directory where the old mail files live. It will suck em into the new outlook.

[pjphilli (Peter)]

Thanks Robin - I believe that the old .dbx files are located in my Documents and Setting folders but I cannot find the folder. Is it a hidden folder?
Cheers Peter

[Tandum (Robin)]

Yes it hidden. It's doc & settings/user/local settings/identities/microsoft/outlook I think.

[pjphilli (Peter)]

Ah Robin - After a bit of looking and fiddling I managed to achieve the transfer! Incidentally, I also found a free .dbx reader called MiTec on the net and it works well for reading old .dbx files not otherwise readily accessible. Thanks again for your help.
Cheers Peter