Recovering Office after a system state restore

[puggit]

OK, I've recovered my Win2000 Pro desktop OS (see topic 'Help! Reboot Loop'). My OS was on E: drive, all applications/data are on D: drive. Obviously I only recovered the E: drive.

Everything is now back in place (I used to work for Veritas ) EXCEPT for Office...

My Outlook icon is showing the windows generic icon in the task bar. If I try to start any Office product it tries to install Office.

If I install - will my old emails still be there?! I haven't restored over them...

[ultimasimon]

puggit said:

OK, I've recovered my Win2000 Pro desktop OS (see topic 'Help! Reboot Loop'). My OS was on E: drive, all applications/data are on D: drive. Obviously I only recovered the E: drive. Everything is now back in place (I used to work for Veritas ) EXCEPT for Office... My Outlook icon is showing the windows generic icon in the task bar. If I try to start any Office product it tries to install Office. If I install - will my old emails still be there?! I haven't restored over them...

All you emails should be safe if you backed up the 'Documents and Settings/Puggit/My Docs folder' which is the default folder for Office to save docs to, unless you changed the path. Re-installing Office should have no bearing on your previously saved docs.

Odd that you have your Os on 'E' and your progs on 'D' As for Office trying to install when you run it first time, it normally does something quirky like that IIRC, I have long since left 2k, and moved onto XP, which is somewhat 'chunderous' but since SP1 is a lot more stable, although I expect I will get flamed for saying that

Hope this helps. It wil be interesting to see what other advice is recieved from the PH collective.

[malman]

Your mail should be in a .pst (personal folders) file somewhere if your were using Outlook. If it was outlook Express it sin some dbx file I think.

You can just open .pst file with outlook from the file menu. Or add to services as a delivery location to put new mail in there. If you use Auto Archive you will also have an archive .pst file. Search for these and backup if in doubt