On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:15:20 -0400, Stormin Mormon
wrote:

You bought a new drive and - presumably - installed XP on it and OE doesn't
work? What's it not doing, should be no problem whatsoever.
CY: The OE won't work on the old internet explorer, and the old IE won't
do updates or much else on the web.

I don't see how OE and IE are connected.

It's hard to understand why you can't update IE or anything else. You
say it's a new install and it doesn't work. Literally millions upon
millions of people have done a generic install with no problems.

Had you not formated your old drive you could have easily gotten all your
stuff - including the emails - off of it. Too late now, gone
forever...unless you are willing to spend Big Bucks with a data recovery
service.
CY: No got big bucks. No got recovery programs.

I see you ignored some clues I gave you that are free and low cost.

For those emails which you still have and which Thunderbird can't read,
Thunderbird can certainly read them if they are in the form of discrete
files (*.eml); i.e., not all jammed into a MS dbx file.

CY: I did save the dbx files from OE. But,t hat's not much help?

That should do the job. What's the problem? Details would help us.

If they are, TB
can import them if both it and OE are on the same computer; if not, there
are third party programs that will extract them from the *dbx and save them
as *.eml which can then be imported or read by TB.

CY: Oops.

What Oops. Get the converter. Done.

Personally, I dislike TB. I recently bought a laptop with Winn8, tried at
least a dozen email programs trying to find one that would do what OE does
and as easily. I found none. I finally set up a virtual machine, installed
XP on it and am now using OE again.

CY: Lucky you.

Is there something in your religion that says you can't do the same
thing? Or does it take away your victim status?