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[Closed] Help with Microsoft Outlook Backup - pleeease!
My laptop has been getting grumpier and grumpier over the last few weeks and now it's decided not to boot up in anything except safe mode.
So it looks like a re-install of Windows is required. It's an HP laptop and there is a proprietary "Recover" facility that takes it back to how it was when it was a few days old. I wonder if it's going to sing nursery rhymes to me like HAL in 2001.
Anyhoo...I've got loads of stuff in Outlook that I don't want to lose (emails and attachments - I've got all my calendar and contacts backed up to my phone) and the .pst file is about 650Mb.
Do I just save that to my removable hard drive, do I "export" to a .pst or is there a proper way of backing it up?
I usually just copy the .pst file, but you can export too I think. Microsoft have released an [url= http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8b081f3a-b7d0-4b16-b8af-5a6322f4fd01 ]Outlook .pst backup addin[/url] that allows you to save out the .pst file wherever you want but it's probably just as easy to drag the .pst file to a removable drive.
Hmmm. Good link, got the download but PC won't let me install it in Safe Mode.
But I backed up the PST and now PC Recovery is formatting the disc. Here's hoping!
You'll be fine, I reckon.