Windows 10: Need help with Importing Outlook. pst from restored external hardrive.

My wife's Win7 hard drive crashed (with Outlook 2007) and it has been rebuilt/restored to an external USB drive by a drive rescue company (our regular Acronis image backup did not have the .pst file).

She has been using a brand new Win10-Home 10.0.8363 computer with Office 2016 for several weeks.

She desires to retrieve at least her 1-200 saved email addresses off of the old drive.

Based on past experience, I know I can probably Copy the old outlook.pst file directly onto the same location where the Win10 copy is and it will overwrite the existing Win10 file, erasing the current data.

1. Can I instead Import the outlook.pst file to Win10 from from the external rescue drive even tho it has not previously been "Exported"?

2. Will using the Import function just Append the old data to the new and not delete anything on the Win10 leaving the new combination of both on the Win10?

3. Will that bring over all her old Incoming/Outgoing emails as well?

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Outlook PST File Problem

That is exactly what I was going to suggest. Export everything to another PST file, delete the old(or rather move it out of the default folder) and replace it with the new PST file that you exported.

 

Outlook PST File Problem

Outlook .PST files are maxed at 2GB's anything over that and they become corrupted. You can try the scanpst.exe from above. Also this might help you.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296088

 

Outlook PST File Problem

Thanks again everyone. I just did an export on the troubled PST file to create a new PST file from it and the file size went from 3.9GB down to 850MB. Then I installed the new PST file into Outlook that I just created and removed the old PST file from Outlook and all seems to be working fine so far. I think I am good now, but I will give it some time just to make sure there are no problems before I delete the old file. Thanks again.