Files and Settings Transfer Wizard

Hello,

I recently did a clean install on my parents computer, which is part of my
annual maintenance routine. I have used the Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard several times on several machines to successfully restore data after
this procedure. Unfortunately, when I did this on my parents machine, it
lost all data in Outlook 2003 - contacts, emails, account settings,
everything. It attempted to restore some settings in Outlook Express, but
without any success. Once I reinstalled the OS and all the apps, I ran
Windows Update and installed every hotfix, which gave me an identical
environment from which I migrated from.

As my parents heavily rely on Outlook, I am looking for a way to extract
these settings before deleting the backup files (which are over 12 Gig for
each profile, one for Mom, and one for Dad). Of course, I spent an hour
searching through Microsoft's help page before becoming desperate and
looking for information here. The error message that I receive when
attempting to perform the restore indicates that 'some files' weren't
successfully migrated and were placed in the "My Documents" folder,
although, none of these are .pst files.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Ed Janx

Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
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Ed Janx wrote:
Hello,

I recently did a clean install on my parents computer, which is part of my
annual maintenance routine. I have used the Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard several times on several machines to successfully restore data
after this procedure. Unfortunately, when I did this on my parents
machine, it lost all data in Outlook 2003 - contacts, emails, account
settings, everything. It attempted to restore some settings in Outlook
Express, but without any success. Once I reinstalled the OS and all the
apps, I ran Windows Update and installed every hotfix, which gave me an
identical environment from which I migrated from.

As my parents heavily rely on Outlook, I am looking for a way to extract
these settings before deleting the backup files (which are over 12 Gig for
each profile, one for Mom, and one for Dad). Of course, I spent an hour
searching through Microsoft's help page before becoming desperate and
looking for information here. The error message that I receive when
attempting to perform the restore indicates that 'some files' weren't
successfully migrated and were placed in the "My Documents" folder,
although, none of these are .pst files.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Ed Janx

Thanks Bear,

I have read this and found nothing that applies specifically to my scenario.
As I mentioned, I have used this procedure several times successfully, and
never was unable to complete the Outlook information migration until now. Is
there any tool, or any way to extract my outlook files manually from the
F.A.S.T. .DAT backup file, or am I screwed? If I have no other recourse, the
file is over 12G so I'd like to delete it.

thanks again,
Ed

"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

AumHa Forums
http://forum.aumha.org

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

Ed Janx wrote:
Hello,

I recently did a clean install on my parents computer, which is part of
my
annual maintenance routine. I have used the Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard several times on several machines to successfully restore data
after this procedure. Unfortunately, when I did this on my parents
machine, it lost all data in Outlook 2003 - contacts, emails, account
settings, everything. It attempted to restore some settings in Outlook
Express, but without any success. Once I reinstalled the OS and all the
apps, I ran Windows Update and installed every hotfix, which gave me an
identical environment from which I migrated from.

As my parents heavily rely on Outlook, I am looking for a way to extract
these settings before deleting the backup files (which are over 12 Gig
for
each profile, one for Mom, and one for Dad). Of course, I spent an hour
searching through Microsoft's help page before becoming desperate and
looking for information here. The error message that I receive when
attempting to perform the restore indicates that 'some files' weren't
successfully migrated and were placed in the "My Documents" folder,
although, none of these are .pst files.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Ed Janx

Someone from the Outlook NGs may have some ideas. Please eliminate the
unnecessary cross-posting in future replies.
--
~PA Bear

Ed Janx wrote:
Thanks Bear,

I have read this and found nothing that applies specifically to my
scenario. As I mentioned, I have used this procedure several times
successfully, and never was unable to complete the Outlook information
migration until now. Is there any tool, or any way to extract my outlook
files manually from the F.A.S.T. .DAT backup file, or am I screwed? If I
have no other recourse, the file is over 12G so I'd like to delete it.

thanks again,
Ed

"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Using WinXP's FAST Wizard, by MVP Gary Woodruff
(Please read the caveats about Outlook Express)
http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.htm
--
HTH - Please Reply to This Thread

~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

AumHa Forums
http://forum.aumha.org

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect

Ed Janx wrote:
Hello,

I recently did a clean install on my parents computer, which is part of
my annual maintenance routine. I have used the Files and Settings
Transfer Wizard several times on several machines to successfully
restore data after this procedure. Unfortunately, when I did this on my
parents machine, it lost all data in Outlook 2003 - contacts, emails,
account settings, everything. It attempted to restore some settings in
Outlook Express, but without any success. Once I reinstalled the OS and
all the apps, I ran Windows Update and installed every hotfix, which
gave me an identical environment from which I migrated from.

As my parents heavily rely on Outlook, I am looking for a way to extract
these settings before deleting the backup files (which are over 12 Gig
for each profile, one for Mom, and one for Dad). Of course, I spent an
hour searching through Microsoft's help page before becoming desperate
and looking for information here. The error message that I receive when
attempting to perform the restore indicates that 'some files' weren't
successfully migrated and were placed in the "My Documents" folder,
although, none of these are .pst files.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,
Ed Janx