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In theory, no, but my experience is otherwise (however, that WAS with a different copy of XP to replace the existing one, and yours should be an identical copy to the existing one).

 

It WAS an identical copy. There is some kind of 120-day requirement and I have read somewhere that there are 2 specific files that can be copied over to the new install that bypasses that. Ring a bell at all??

 

OMG, one more thing. Will Windows Update "know" that my SP2 install is bare or will it still detect that I had been fully updated up until recently? Thanks.

 

Lar,

I wouldn't be concerned about this at all. You should be able to validate your new installation automatically but even if that were to fail (highly unlikely), you can still do a phone validation. Microsoft is very accomodating in this regard.

Most problems occur when one uses an installation CD that is "mis-matched ". Specific examples would include using a Gold Volume User CD on a machine that originally used an OEM CD or using a vendor specific (Dell, HP etc) CD on a machine that originally used an OEM CD. Even then, Microsoft is more than fair to most users who can't get past the automatic validation.

As to updates required after the installation, Windows Update is going to scan your current installation. Whatever you had previously installed for patches or security updates will have no bearing on this whatsoever.

In summation, your fears are unfounded. Did you ever get that "other" CD we had discussed?

 

That is excellent news. Thanks. I still have not been able to independently confirm the state of the PCIe video card beyond that from MSI. When it comes to newer mainboards (SATA/PCIe) in my little circle, I stand alone. Esp when upwind.

 

Well I am at my first challenge... of course, probably because of a mistake. I named my own user ID wrong... Dad instead of the original Larry.

I copied all of my dbx files over to the right location but the emails do not show up. Also, my custom folders are nowhere to be found. Is the user ID issue why that is happening??

My wife's dbx files transferred beautifully (same ID as before).

Oh, I tried changing my user ID but that only changes the ID, not the directories and folders. So, I made a new ID (Larry, just like before) and copied the dbx folders again but it STILL does not show my old emails.

I also tried importing the messages from within OE from a desktop folder of the dbx files and the importing was successful but with no benefit.

Hmmmm. My old dbx files are a lot larger than the new ones. I also had made a lot of personal folders in my OE to store the emails in a more organized fashion and to try to keep the folder sizes down. None of those personal dbx files were listed by Knoppix in the original OE folder of my suspicious HDD. Are non-standard dbx files stored elsewhere?

The folders that I saved from the old OE folder acct are Deleted Items (8.2Mb), Folders (74Kb), Inbox (8.7Mb), Offline (10Kb), Outbox (971Kb), pop3uidl (74Kb) and Sent Items (1.4Mb).

As a test, I created a TEST folder in the new OE. Then I did a search for it in Documents and Settings... and it does not show up anywhere. All of the others did, though. The search was for *test*.* and nothing even remotely related was found. So, it does not seem to be a user ID issue, after all. Then what??

I also went back into Koppix to confirm that I did get all of the dbx folders in the correct folder and I did. Rebooting did not help, too.

Thanks, Larry

 

Here's where we are probably going to need some expertise from PeteC or another scholar on the intracacies of Outlook Express. For starters, your folders are way to big (deleted items and inbox in particular) but you are going to counter that they worked before. I'm told 2MB is a safe threshold in total although I know mine are considerably larger.

I've always used my same name and set up OE on the new drive before trying to transfer anything. That will establish your basic folders. Then I've just copied and pasted all of my old DBX files to the new drive and it will over write the basic folders with whatever.

Not knowing what to tell you, I'm going to defer to Pete and ask that any others chirp in.

I will throw one more at you with caution. Please backup the registry entry I'm giving you before doing this. Navigate to HKCU > Software > Microsoft > Internet Account Manager and look at the entries in the 00000001 , 00000002 & etc. You may be able to change your Dad to Larry there and provided you are backed up, you may be able to delete an entire sub key and start from scratch - I don't know so make darn sure you have your backside covered before you start playing around there.

In addition to backing up individaul entries, if you haven't installed erunt - do it before trying this and backup your entire registry.

Good Luck Lar


Edit from #89 - 2MB above should be 2 Gigs. Thanks Pete .....

 

Hi Rock, man oh man. I fired up the questionable 2nd HDD and it works fine. XP, of course, will not let me into the old Documents and Settings\Larry folder but when I searched the c:\ drive I got all of my dbx folders listed, including my personal ones like Computer, Humor, etc. Funny how they did not show on Knoppix at all. So, I copied them to the Shared Computer folder and pasted them into the new OE and they do not show up when you run OE, as well.

I reread my last post and decided that the 6th paragraph was a mess. So, I edited it in the hopes that the mess makes a little more sense (to someone beside me).

Thanks for stopping by, Lar

 

Well now, I have stumbled (as usual) into a interesting fact.

It has been a well documented that the dbx files should exist in C: > Documents and Settings > your user name > Local Settings > Application Data > Identities > {a string of numbers} > Microsoft > Outlook Express.

I just did a dbx search on the old, suspicous G drive and the pathname for my dbx files came up as windows > Application Data > Identities > {a string of numbers} > Microsoft > Outlook Express. All of my OE dbx folders are there including my MANY newsgroup dbx files. The main folders and all of the subfolders are there without any directory structure hierarcy. So now what?

If I just paste them into the proper folder will the Folder.dbx file take care of the hierarcies? What about the newsgroup dbx files?

Lauries personal folders (that I forgot about) are in there, too, but with a different (string of numbers).

I have not created a new identity within my OE. Laurie and I both use the Main Identity within our own OE.

OH, I also checked the new Windows install (from the same ol' XP disc) and there is no such thing as a Windows/Application Data folder.

 

Hi Pete,

My XP was a new install 3 years ago on a new build. No upgrades. Weird, huh. The dbx files from my last XP install (before the OS or HDD went bad on me) are apparently in the windows/application data folder now.

Should I go ahead and try to copy/paste all of the folders within that {numbers} folder to the proper folder on my new XP and see what happens?

 

Well, I may not be in full possession of my faculties, but I AM in full possession of my emails!!!! Their home was just in the wrong neighborhood!

Back to loading up drivers. Thanks Rock and Pete. Thanks.

Lar

 

Thanks Pete - I hope you stick around on this thread - Larry is no slouch.

Nice Job Lar ........

 

Thanks guys.

More minutia. Even though I pasted the newsgroup dbx files into the same folder along with email dbx files, the newsgroups do not show up on OE. I have created the proper NEWS account for Earthlink and restarted OE.

Also, I am showing the yellow? in Device Mgr for Multimeda Video Controller. Not sure what that is but I am having trouble installing my Haupaugge TV board. XP will not find it as New Hardware. Any suggestions?

 

Device Status:

The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)

To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver

But when I go to install from the CD, it says that the Hardware has not been installed... when it has.