Problem solved. Installed Vista Home Premium yesterday Haven't played around
with it to backup mail. Thanks

"Dale" wrote:

> Yes, I caught that from your first post. My mistake.
>
>
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.eu> wrote in message
> news:eYlmBcWQHHA.2252@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Dale wrote:
> >> Outlook can create PST files, not just Outlook Express.
> >
> > Correction: Outlook Express *cannot* create .pst files. It creates .dbx
> > files.
> >
> > Alias
> >>
> >>
> >> "Stinger" <Stinger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:9662F498-04B4-4189-AA6B-DD5AAABB8EAA@microsoft.com...
> >>> There is no such file in Vista. Vista has Microsoft Mail, NOT Outlook
> >>> Express, so no such .pst file. I have Knoppix.
> >>>
> >>> "Paul-B" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Stinger wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > 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.
> >>>> >
> >>>> Depends how desperate you are, but you can download a copy of Knoppix
> >>>> from http://www.knoppix.org/, 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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