where to find contacts in C-Drive

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Post December 7th, 2006, 11:55 pm

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone here might be able to help me here. With the outlook 2003, where are the contact or calendar usually stored under?

I have a situation here in which my hard drive has been corrupted and need to be re-formatted. Fortunately, i have backed up the whole C-Drive. So i wonder if it's possible for me to find the contacts there. The thing is there are quite a number of contact entries there.

Thank you in advance
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Post December 7th, 2006, 11:55 pm

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Post December 8th, 2006, 6:37 am

I would try the application data file. I don't think it would be in the .pst file although copies of sent and received emails with those contacts would.
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Post December 13th, 2006, 11:47 am

Outlook stores everything (contacts, appointments, emails, notes, etc) all in one file, the PST file. Usually outlook.pst but sometimes mailbox.pst depending on the install. You are likely to find an archive.pst in the same directory with all the archived emails. file location is usually C:\Documents and Settings\username\local settings\application data\Microsoft\Outlook
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Post December 13th, 2006, 1:28 pm

This may be helpul also. You will need to import your old pst file into your Outlook profile which will be different after reinstalling

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070
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