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Originally Posted by lauriedatlen
Once you have reinstalled everything you just setup outlook with the same settings you have now. Click Send/Recieve and any emails in your account (all of them as you have formatted the HD) will be downloaded back to your PC.
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That's not 100% strictly true.
If your e-mails are kept locally in a mail store, you won't be able to do a send and recieve to recover them.
They are stored in DBX files on the local hard drive.
They can be found in :
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER NAME \Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{YOUR USER IDENTITY (STRING OF NUMBERS AND LETTERS}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
Browse to these using your "my computer" icon (windows explorer) and copy them to your external hard drive.
When you re-install windows, you can got to outlook express and import the messages back into outlook express by going to :
File
Import
Messages
HTH
Mick
Incidentally, you may not be able to see your "local settings" folder.
To make sure you can view this go to windows explorer again and select :
Tools
Folder Options
View
(under hidden files and folders select) Show hidden files and folders
Then click ok...