recovering email account info (messages, address book) from external drive

[thomenglish]

Hi This is my first post here. I searched first and didn't find anything, so I hope I'm not repeating. Anyway...
I just bought a Dell Inspiron because my 5-year-old Gateway crashed. I was able to save the hard drive from the old computer and have it in an enclosure and hooked to the new one through a USB. I know nothing about partitioning, so I haven't done anything other than plug the old drive in.
OK, my question concerns getting my saved email messages and address books from the old drive. I have two email accounts and two different email programs: Outlook and Outlook Express. The old drive (the new external drive) appears to be working fine and I am able to access my documents and other files (thank God!) but I'm just wondering about email.
Thanks y'all

[patio]

Welcome Thom...

You should be able to Import both Outlook and Outlook Express info including old emails...
By all means don't do anything to change the drive.
Be patient and Soybean or one of our other Outlook experts will be along shortly with instructions...