Vista Professional to Windows 7 Home Premium


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    Windows 7
       #1

    Vista Professional to Windows 7 Home Premium


    I'm hoping I didn't damage myself too badly. I backed up my laptop to an external drive using the Vista Backup utility. Unfortunately, I did not create a pst file for Outlook 2007, I was in a hurry and assumed I could restore everything after the up(down)grade from Vista Professional to Windows Home Premium.

    Like a dope, I reinstalled my Office 2007 disk and of course Outlook wants me to start all over. Soooo...I have an external drive with everything on it but don't know how, or if, I can restore any Outlook features so that I can save five years of email.....please help.
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  2. Posts : 1,557
    XP, Seven, 2008R2
       #2

    go into Outlook and look for an "Import Mail" option in the menus. You should be able to import it even if you didn't create a pst file.
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  3. Posts : 833
    Windows 7 x64 HP, Windows 7 HP, Windows 7 Ult
       #3

    Reindeer said:
    I'm hoping I didn't damage myself too badly. I backed up my laptop to an external drive using the Vista Backup utility. Unfortunately, I did not create a pst file for Outlook 2007, I was in a hurry and assumed I could restore everything after the up(down)grade from Vista Professional to Windows Home Premium.

    Like a dope, I reinstalled my Office 2007 disk and of course Outlook wants me to start all over. Soooo...I have an external drive with everything on it but don't know how, or if, I can restore any Outlook features so that I can save five years of email.....please help.
    I'm not familiar with how Vista Backup works - can you see the ".pst" file on the backup? If you can, then you can point Outlook to the external drive: File - Data File Management - Add.

    If you cannot, you may have to re-install Vista from the backup, then save off the ".pst" file, then re-load Windows 7.
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  4. Posts : 2
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #4

    The Vista backup creates a couple hundred folders of zip files...
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  5. Posts : 1,557
    XP, Seven, 2008R2
       #5

    TheSchaft said:
    If you cannot, you may have to re-install Vista from the backup, then save off the ".pst" file, then re-load Windows 7.
    It sounds like a pretty good suggestion at this point.
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  6. Posts : 68
    Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) / OS X Snow Leopard
       #6

    Create an image of your installed Windows 7.
    Re-install Vista. Save the ".pst" file on some accessible media.
    Restore the image of your Windows 7.
    This should be quicker, I think.

    I use third-party imaging, like Paragon or Macrium Reflect.
    Not sure how the native imaging works for re-install.
    Last edited by ahriman; 25 Oct 2009 at 12:37. Reason: Added note on third-party imaging.
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