joni

The backround to this is long, complicated and unnecassary, but what I have is a Windows XP PC fresh from repairs that has two 120gb hard drives. One has Windows XP and the other has all my other data, programmes etc. My aim is to copy everything from the second hard drive to the drive with Windows on it and use the second drive eventually for storeage and backup.

Not being too clever in things computerised, I guess that copy and paste would work but I have got into real problems in the past with transfer of Outlook Express account details address book etc. and also Favourites.

Can any of you good people give advice to a layman?

Neil Smalley

In outlook you can export your address book etc into a file, which you can then import again. The best place to find messages is to look in the tools>options>maintenance>store folder. Find the folder and copy all them all out to where you want them to go. Then point Outlook to the new folder and restart.

In your case the Outlook stuff will probably be in \Documents and Settings\{your user name}\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook

Favourites are in the documents and settings>{your user name}>favourites. It's usually a good idea to copy cookies too as they hold a lot of info about sites you're registered on and it's a pain to login to all of them again(esp banking ones). Another folder I tend to copy out is Desktop

Again copy them out to a new folder.

Then when you come to re-install just copy them back to where they came from

joni

That's great Neil....many thanks.

XRS

Blimey Joni, why don't you call me?

I can swap you doing this for some information on which is the best PDA.

Plus I could also show you the car

joni

Will do