A question or two.

[Patrick]

I have been setting up my new laptop.

I formatted the H/D into three partitions.

One with XP installed, the second with Vista installed and the third for data. This idea was recommended by a computer magazine for duel boot systems as the third partition can be accessed from whichever operating system being worked from. But they omitted to tell the reader how.
I remember some time ago on one of my set ups moving the My Documents folder to a separate partition but I cant remember how. I can copy it but not move it. Any one know how.

Second question, restoring my files and settings wont appear to restore email settings or emails.To either Outlook Express or Thunderbird.

Third, nor will it automatically restore my data-base in Microsoft Outlook


Further help would be appreciated

Patrick

[vlarcombe]

Re: A question or two.

Hi Patrick,

I can't be much help, I've not used a duel boot machine in years (had bad experiences back in the days of OS/2) so I've nothing to offer here.

On the email settings I use Outlook rather than Outlook express so I'm not sure if the same applies. When I recovered my email after a motherboard failure I recreated the account by hand and then replaced the mail file which as a PST extension and lives in the ...\LocalSettings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ folder. I know that address book data is normally stored by Outlook in files with a WAB extension. If you still have the old system working (I can't recall if your tribulations allowed this) you could try the Export and Import options in OutlookExpress.

Hopefully there will be someone with more helpful help lurking.

Vernon.

[Ian]

Re: A question or two.

Hi Patrick,

I can't be much help, I've not used a duel boot machine in years (had bad experiences back in the days of OS/2) so I've nothing to offer here.

On the email settings I use Outlook rather than Outlook express so I'm not sure if the same applies. When I recovered my email after a motherboard failure I recreated the account by hand and then replaced the mail file which as a PST extension and lives in the ...\LocalSettings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\ folder. I know that address book data is normally stored by Outlook in files with a WAB extension. If you still have the old system working (I can't recall if your tribulations allowed this) you could try the Export and Import options in OutlookExpress.

Hopefully there will be someone with more helpful help lurking.

Vernon.

Outlook (full version, not Express) has a 'Save my Settings' wizard (look in the Microsoft Office programs folder) that creates an OPS file. This file archives all your settings, including rules, folders, PST file locations, email accounts, etc., though not account passwords. Once you have reinstalled Office, run te wizard to import the OPS file, ensure your PST files are in the same file location as before and then your will only need to re-enter any missing mail account passwords.

Ian

[Patrick]

Re: A question or two.

Outlook (full version, not Express) has a 'Save my Settings' wizard (look in the Microsoft Office programs folder) that creates an OPS file. This file archives all your settings, including rules, folders, PST file locations, email accounts, etc., though not account passwords. Once you have reinstalled Office, run te wizard to import the OPS file, ensure your PST files are in the same file location as before and then your will only need to re-enter any missing mail account passwords.

Ian