Windows 7 Recovering old outlook emails?

[joshy]

Im new to W7, installed it yesterday.

As I was sick and tired of my computer and how slow it has been recently I decided to do a completely fresh install.

Halfway through I realise that I didnt back up my emails in my outlook! Is there any way these can be retrieved from windows.old?

 

[antt]

maybe. dont know the procedure, but outlook saves old emails in .pst files. They are located somewhere in "C:\*Documents and Settings\username\*Application Data\*Microsoft\*Outlook\". (you might need to turn on hidden files: go start and type folder, then look in folder options - view tab i think).
Have a look at this knowledge base article on importing it into outlook> How to manage .pst files in Outlook 2007, in Outlook 2003, and in Outlook 2002