Help restoring BCM from failed BCM 2003

I desperately trying to move my BCM 2003 from my old laptop to a new laptop.
The BCM on the old laptop no longer has the BUSINESS TOOLS link on the menu.
I tried copying the MDF files over to the BCM folder in the APPS DATA folder
in the user profile folder but it says that the MDF is of a newer version. I
have applied all the patches, including the SBA patch.

There may be a work around! I also noticed that I have a new instance of SQL
on the called SQL EXPRESS. When I setup my profile, I can connect to the new
instance called [MACHINENAME]\SQLEXPRESS, and actually link to the new
version of the MDF. However, when I restart or open the PROFILE, it wants to
view the previous MDF/profile. Is there a registry entry or a setting
somewhere that I can tell BCM to look for the new instance and use the proper
MDF? In this way, I won't have to every battle exporting the database from
my old laptop, whose BCM is kindly broken.

I would really appreciate the help.... Mui mui mui thanks in advance.

On Aug 21, 2:53 pm, John Cosmas <JohnCos... DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I desperately trying to move my BCM 2003 from my old laptop to a new laptop.  
> The BCM on the old laptop no longer has the BUSINESS TOOLS link on the menu.  
> I tried copying the MDF files over to the BCM folder in the APPS DATA folder
> in the user profile folder but it says that the MDF is of a newer version..  I
> have applied all the patches, including the SBA patch.
>
> There may be a work around! I also noticed that I have a new instance of SQL
> on the called SQL EXPRESS.  When I setup my profile, I can connect to the new
> instance called [MACHINENAME]\SQLEXPRESS, and actually link to the new
> version of the MDF.  However, when I restart or open the PROFILE, it wants to
> view the previous MDF/profile.  Is there a registry entry or a setting
> somewhere that I can tell BCM to look for the new instance and use the proper
> MDF?  In this way, I won't have to every battle exporting the database from
> my old laptop, whose BCM is kindly broken.
>
> I would really appreciate the help.... Mui mui mui thanks in advance.

I'm not quite sure I understand what's going on, but I do know that
Outlook profiles are stored in the Registry using a private Outlook
binary format, so I don't think you can edit them to change an
instance name.