Importing Outlook Express Contacts and Messages

My old computer motherboard died. Was using XP and Outlook Express. I took
off the hard drive, bought a new computer with Vista AND and external hard
drive enclosure with old hard drive installed. All came up ok. Now I use
Microsoft Mail, BUT how do I get my contacts and old messages from the old
hard drive into Microsoft Mail??

Here is the whole procedure, print it out:

ACCOUNT DETAILS
1. Go to Outlook Express > Tools > Accounts > Mail Tab and select the first
one you want to export. Click on it and then press Export. Save it to an
external device. Repeat this procedure for any other e-mail accounts you want
to export to Windows Mail.
2. In Vista’s Windows Mail, go to Tools > Accounts > Import > Browse to the
location of the file to be imported.

MAIL BOXES
1. Go to Outlook Express > Tools > Maintenance Tab > Store Folder.
2. Make a note of its location and navigate to it. If you haven't moved it,
it's here C:\Documents and Settings\{user name}\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{long name}\Microsoft\Outlook Express. You may have to show
'hidden' files in Folder Options to see it. Close Outlook Express.
3. Copy the whole folder (not just the .dbx files) to an external source.
Remove any ‘Read only’ attributes via right-click > Properties.
4. In Vista’s Windows Mail go to File > Import > Messages > OE6 > Next >
Import Mail and follow the wizard to import your mail boxes from the exported
folder you made earlier.
5. Once these are imported, a sub-folder named Imported Folder is created
for each one imported. Go to it and drag the messages to the proper boxes.

As an alternative to 2 above, you could move the mail boxes to an
‘easier-to-get-at’ location, i.e. Open My Documents and create a folder named
Mail Boxes. Now go to Outlook Express > Tools > Maintenance Tab > Store
Folder > Change and type the location of the new folder, e.g. My Docs\Mail
Boxes. Close Outlook Express. The store location is now easier to navigate to
and it is not hidden.

ADDRESS BOOK/CONTACTS
1. Go to Outlook Express > File > Export > Address Book and select Comma
Separated Values (CSV) > Export, select the fields you want or, for more
safety, select all the fields and save it to an external device.
2. In Vista’s Windows Mail go to File > Import > Windows Contacts, select
CSV > Import and browse to the file you exported from Outlook Express.

"Doug" wrote:

> My old computer motherboard died. Was using XP and Outlook Express. I took
> off the hard drive, bought a new computer with Vista AND and external hard
> drive enclosure with old hard drive installed. All came up ok. Now I use
> Microsoft Mail, BUT how do I get my contacts and old messages from the old
> hard drive into Microsoft Mail??