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    Outlook recovery in DOS - Possible?

    A person I know has a defective drive, and is trying to recover some data (family pictures, documents, etc) before he sends it in for replacement.
    I've been successful in entering DOS mode and saving the images and documents onto floppy, but then he asked if it was possible to recover Outlook data as well. More specifically, he was using Outlook to manage his Hotmail account, but had the majority of his contacts in Outlook.
    Is there any way of recovering those addresses in DOS? I know that Outlook stores data using its own extensions, so I'm hoping that it stores addresses as well.

    Thanks! Nautilus
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    Outlook Express message files have an a file extension of ".DBX" and personal address book files are ".WAB".
    Vernon Frazee, Microsoft MVP (Windows - Shell/User)

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    Thanks Vernon!

    That's twice in a row you've replied to my posts and answered my questions!

    Many thanks!


    Nautilus
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    You're more than Welcome. Glad I was able to help.
    Vernon Frazee, Microsoft MVP (Windows - Shell/User)

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