don't know if anyone can help, last week four transistors on my mainboard decided to have a fry up, so i had to replace the mainboard. when i booted up, my C: drive would not log onto windows, i assume it was because the board was not from the same manufacturer. so in the end i bought a new hard drive and installed windows with sp2 and all the updates, i have it all working now and i can access the old hard drive, but i have 2 problems that i would like to sort, is it possible to retrieve emails and my address book from outlook express from my old D: drive. the files are there, and also since then when i send a shortcut to my desktop i.e. fiat126 they loose there icon and are replaced with the big E. Explorer icon. any help would be much appreciated, thanks. Pete.