Parallel Win 2K Installation: IEXP Favs & Email Addresses

[TomAJohnson]

Disaster struck yesterday and the only way out was to do a parallel (new) installation of Win 2K (this time in \WINNT2, instead of \WINNT).

With the new operation system, I have installed musicmatch and found all my playlists and music (it was NOT a hard drive problem which did me in). I have installed word processing programs and found and loaded files. I have installed the software for my sound card and it all works fine.

HOWEVER, I cannot find (and DREAD the prospect that they are lost) my Internet favorites (for Internet Explorer) and I also cannot find my email address book and old email. Anyone know where to look? Surely the parallel operating system did not erase them or write over them.

Tom Johnson

[glc]

It probably did overwrite them if you used the same username on the new install. All that stuff is in documents and settings\username. There is a CHANCE they are still there if it was smart enough to rename the old profile to \username.something. You need to enable show hidden and system files in your folder options.

[TomAJohnson]

FOLLOWUP: I did use a different name for the parallel installation and all the IE favorites, email addresses and mail, etc. were retrievable. If anyone wants the glorious details, add to this posting and I will provide them