Stinger wrote:[color=blue]
> There is no such file in Vista. Vista has Microsoft Mail, NOT Outlook
> Express, so no such .pst file. I have Knoppix.[/color]

..pst is for Outlook, not Outlook Express. Outlook Express has .dbx
files. Are you saying that Windows Mail doesn't have a way to back up or
is it that you just don't know how to do it? And, if the latter, what in
the world are you doing being a beta tester if you don't know that and
the difference between Outlook and Outlook Express' message stores?

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> "Paul-B" wrote:
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>> Stinger wrote:
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>>> My 30 day trial is up and I am unable to use Vista RTM, so backing up
>>> the emiail is out of the question. I bought an OEM copy of Vista this
>>> morning from Newegg.com. I suppose it won't ship till the 30th but
>>> them I will prolly do a fresh install. I thought I could just get it
>>> activated online, but am afraid it's too late for it.
>>>[/color]
>> Depends how desperate you are, but you can download a copy of Knoppix
>> from [url]http://www.knoppix.org/[/url], burn it onto a cd and boot from the CD,
>> then find the outlook.pst file from your hard drive (Knoppix has
>> ntfs-3g so can read and write ntfs partitions) and save it onto a usb
>> memory stick.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul-B
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