I have just attempted an upgrade from Vista Business to Windows 7 on my HP nx7400 laptop. I have win 7 but no access to any Microsoft programs. I have Office 2007. Thankfully, I backed up my .pst file beforehand.



I also have a desktop, running XP, and I have Office 2010 installed. My Outlook is fully functional but I haven't used it recently but it does have some years of mails etc in its pst.
Whilst working on a full OS reinstall for my laptop, I would like to add that office pst's contents to the existing mails etc that I have on my desktop.
Can that be done with a straight restore, or will I find that I have overwritten the existing data held within my desktop Outlook files?

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Many thanks

falcodriver

You can simply import the pst from the laptop on the desktop by running the import/export wizard in Outlook. This will import the laptop data into the pst file of the desktop. Since your are only importing nothing should be overwritten unless it is duplicate data.

Excellent!

Very many thanks.

Regards

Falcodriver