Posted: 8/16/2013 4:25:51 PM EDT
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I have a bunch (16) of old hard drives. I want to clean up and consolidate all the old data files and emails.
I add the drive to the PC and boot up. The BIOS recognizes new HDD. I can access the various files via Windows Explorer, view photos, open documents and spreadsheets, etc. So, everything looks to be functioning properly. However, I was unsuccessful at importing the old emails and contacts into my currently active Outlook 2010 User account. I am getting a message about not having permission to access the data. How do I retrieve these data? Old HDD's may most likely Windows7 and Windows XP Pro. Some may even be Windows 98SE. Email files are in <name>.pst format. Current OS - Windows 7 (64 bit) Email client - Outlook 2010 |
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Yes, that was the problem. It took me a while to figure it out, then I saw your post.
There was another aspect to this problem which I will share with the hive. If you have sufficient permission, you can simply "Open" the old *.pst files in Outlook (File>Open>Open Outlook Data File). You don't need to import them. The thing is, it just opens them very "quietly" and if you don't know where to look, you will not likely see the data is available. It opens as a single line entitled, "Personal Folders". It appears on the left side of Outlook beneath your existing account's folder structure. You have to expand the Personal Folders to access its contents. As it turns out, those file permissions are restricted only on an NTFS-formatted HDD. The other format (ATSC?) is less restrictive. |