FYI I tried a veiwer and it does seem to have all the folders and all the contents. The Contacts however seem to be missing the Notes: section, which is all the stuff I really need.

But it may...

Thanks so much! It's less about the most recently updated contacts as it is I was using contacts for information sheets that contained list of URLs and phone numbers for my various financial...

ah this came in while i was typing previous reply. I will look into the conversion idea. Thanks!

Thanks but I cannot. I reinstalled Windows 10 two weeks ago. Just now really missing those Contacts and was going to try to get them back.

Also, I mispoke. There was a pst file, but they are from...

Thanks. Sigh. I do see there is outlook.pst on the computer now.

But no .pst existed on the computer after the crash. At least no searches for *.pst found anything, searching as administrator,...

Thanks. It is my understanding that you do not get a PST file unless you are on an exchange server or something similar. People who are using webmail through Outlook only get an OST file.

This was...

I manually mined the files from my crashed laptop before I reinstalled Windows 10 and Office 2010.

I lost all my contacts - it is an Outlook.com account but the contacts were not synched with the...

Thanks! It worked well.

And yes, I have the DVD with key code.

Nothing to back up yet, just loading up a new Windows 10 install. So I kept OneNote this time, never used it, but actually it...

So, that will not mess up all the Microsoft tentacles running through Windows? I know how integrated Office can be.

But better to do it now before I start using all this stuff. I will look up how...

Thanks everyone. I had decided to load Office 2010 Home Premium or whatever it is called, on the SSD - forgetting that I do not need the database or Powerpoint. Sigh. But it really didn't take up...

OK, I reinstalled W10 and Office 2010. I use outlook.com as my email.

I lost all my contacts and calendar information.

I did try to save my ost file before reinstalling. But I read that is not...

I spoke too soon.

The incoming passed the test, the outgoing test message times out.

Turns out the outgoing server is now 587!

Thanks for your help it is working now.

I am following instructions on line to make my Outlook.com address work in my newly re-installed Outlook 2010.

This is what I was instructed to put:

Account Type: IMAP
Incoming Mail Server:...

I had to reinstall W10 (worked, yay!)

Now I have to install my Office 2010 discs and get any updates from way back when.

I installed W10 on my SSD.

Is it ok to install Office 2010 on the...

Thanks. It would not allow it at first. But a reboot then did allow it! Yay!

I was able to reinstall Windows 10 on my SSD and it solved my boot issue, after saving all important files to external drives. Thanks to all who offered help and suggestions.

BUT the first time...

I can no longer edit the post above, I was going to erase it.

I reinstalled Windows on the correct SSD drive and it solved my boot problem. But I now have Windows on my storage drive But I...

Help!

After backing up my files, I used an external drive to make the installation software and it installed Windows 10 and it actually worked

BUT it installed it on the WRONG drive.

It...

I was able to use cmd to save all important files to external drives, thanks to advice from this forum.

Now I want to delete files and subdirectories from default folders like Pictures, Documents,...

My PC will no longer boot into windows. It is a Sager gaming laptop that has been my desktop for 2.5 years.

If this is fixable but W10 needs to be reinstalled, how do I do that? I have no disks as...

THANK YOU, thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!

I had read about the quotes but no one posted the correct syntax, so I had them in the wrong place.

Whew!

Hi.

I am hoping someone knows a cmd string that will allow me to copy a desktop folder and its subfolders, or at least the files within, to an external drive on a laptop that crashed with what...