Need to restore Outlook contacts and e-mail, contents never saved

[Cobra281]

wasn't sure which section this belonged in, so i thought i'd ask here.

a serious disruption caused me to have to reinstall windows 7 again, but the old windows 7 copy(windows.old) was saved. however, the outlook 2007 contacts and e-mails were never saved, so now, how can i retrieve the e-mails and contacts? thanks in advance!

 

[DeaconFrost]

Search the Windows.old folder for any .pst or .ost files. Those can be imported back into Outlook.

 

[Cobra281]

Search the Windows.old folder for any .pst or .ost files. Those can be imported back into Outlook.

would those files still be there if they were never saved?

 

[DeaconFrost]

I'm not sure what all gets captured and put into the Windows.old folder, but if one of those files was present, you'd have what you needed.