Change of drive letter and export of messages from Outlook Express 6

Published on July 2, 2004 By PixelPirate In Stardock Software

I just bought my dad a new harddrive cuz the old one wasn't behaving (IBM Deskstar - like a DC 10 guaranteed to go down).

I installed XP Pro on it but the drive letter is F: and his 10 GB secondary harddrive is now C: (D: and E: are the CD drives). It works like it should but why has the letters changed? The jumpers and cables are set as they should. I want to change them so they are correct. I've seen this in an application sometime a while ago but can't remember which. Perhaps TweakXP? Could anyone point me to the right application and tell me if there are any dangers involved regarding bootup, compability etc.?

Another annoyance...Outlook Express. I've exported his contacts and setup and it works like a charm. I would like to export his old e-mail messages too, it just does it automatically somewhere on the disk - it won't allow me to a specific place. So how do I do that? Or how do I locate the old messages? They're not kept online by his ISP.

The old disk was running ME - I ordered him to change it to XP

Thanks in advance

Comments

Snowman

on Jul 03, 2004

In Outlook Destress you cant manually export messages or define where it should (auto)export them.
They are stored in a .pst file *somewhere*..
(The full version of Outlook (comes with the Office pack) can manually export everything.)

(Dunno about the drive letter change though)

PixelPirate

on Jul 04, 2004

Thanks Snowman, I'll give it a shot.

Anybody on the drive letter?

Cafeend

on Jul 04, 2004

Actually, you can relocate your stuff in Outlook Express! Select Tools > Options from the menu, go to the Maintenance tab, click on the Store Folder button.

From memory, it asked wether you want to move existing contents or just change the setting - but I haven't done it for a while! Better take a good backup first

yrag

on Jul 04, 2004

Change the drive letters in Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management

PixelPirate

on Jul 05, 2004

You guys rock! Just what I needed - found the Outlook stuff.

I'm also able to change the drive letters - to some point...I can't change the system disk's drive letter - so it's stuck with F:

After I took a look at your suggestion yrag, the computer is behaving strangely. The only drive letter I changed was C: to G: but now the computer doesn't shut down automatically it just keeps rebooting. Any suggestions? I could just reinstall everything to make it fine, but it takes time on this slowpoke of a machine.

PixelPirate

on Jul 05, 2004

Oh and the icons in Explorer's treeview are missing in action...

PixelPirate

on Jul 05, 2004

Ok, changing the drive letter back to C: got the icons back.

The issue with rebooting was caused by old Logitech iTouch drivers that caused an error in kbdclass.sys

All fixed now.

Looks like the old man's gotta live with the drive letters, or I'll have to reinstall everything.

Case closed.

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