Can I view Outlook Calendar on old hard drive in external caddy

twiglet98

My old computer's hard drive is full and it will load Windows but nothing will open - I should have cleared some space on it before allowing updates as the disk has 0Mb of space and can't even manage to delete anything.

I've taken the hard drive out and installed it in an external caddy attached to a beefier computer. I've been able to import Outlook Express email messages but I can't get into the Outlook calendar on the old drive. Following the sequence >computername/Documents&Settings/username/LocalSettings/ApplicationData/Microsoft/Outlook I get a pop-up box saying 'you are attempting to open a file of type 'Office Data File' (.pst)

I have MS Office 2003 on both computers. I guess I'm missing something that should be obvious but if anyone can tell me how to see (and ideally copy) the calendar from the hard drive in the caddy, onto the host computer, I'll be really grateful. My MSE success is greatly dependent on seeing when payments are due into or out of my account, and it's all on that calendar...

Any advice on how to back it up for the future, in a way that I can still find it easily, would be most helpful too.

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1. Open Outlook.
2. On the File menu, click Import And Export. If the menu item is not available, move your pointer over the chevrons at the bottom of the menu, and then click Import and Export.
3. Click Import, and then click Next.
4. Click Personal Folder File (.pst), and then click Next..

to backup, just that file, you just need to copy it somewhere, but ideally you should backup the whole machine with something like macrium reflect free

if the old disk wont boot because it's full, just delete something, tmp files, dmp files etc

twiglet98

Many thanks, yes that should have been obvious - successfully imported my old calendar.

Now you've lost me with tmp and dmp files - where do I locate them in order to delete them? I'm trying to get my iTunes over from the full drive, and have moved other docs and photos, not sure what else I can free up from the caddy. The backup program you have recommended looks very useful, thank you.

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If you can get it to boot in safe mode, probably easiest to tidy things up that way, but you could install search everything to easily find large files or tmp or dump files while its in a caddy, is there another partition on the hard disk?

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