recover address book from OE 4 --can't import

[ftechguy]

I have a computer that was running Outlook Express v4 (I think, could be older). Its windows config was corrupted and it can no longer boot. I setup a new hard drive with new win98 install with OE 5. Is there anyway to recover the addresses from the original computer to the new one?

The main problem is that the old PC address book was never exported and there is no WAB file. I can still access all the files from it but I can't get the address book. Does anybody know what file OE4 stores the addressbook in and how I can import it to OE5??

 

[jmatt]

See if anything here helps .

http://www.sover.net/~whoi/WinUtils4.html

Panic Over ( POP ) saves your email, address book, favorites and docs so you can restore them after a reload of Windows 98. You must have a D or E drive to run this program.

http://www.joshie.com/projects/dawn/

Requirementsentium 90, and Windows 9x, NT, 2000, or Me

Purchase Information: Free

Ever wish you could convert the address database from one email program's format to another? Dawn is a free utility that makes it possible. It's rather spartan main interface could be more intuitive, but luckily it can be run in a much friendlier wizard mode. You can use Dawn to convert data between Netscape Communicator 4.x, Netscape Navigator 3.x, Internet Explorer/Outlook Express/Windows Address Book, MS Outlook 98/2000, Juno, WordPerfect 8.x, Eudora 3.x and 4.x, and Pegasus Mail 3.x. (It can't help you with Netscape 6, though.)
Dawn should also work with other programs that can use/import/export LDAP/LDIF, Comma Separated Value (CSV), plain text, or one-per-line or comma-separated formats or store addresses in a text file suitable for extraction.