How do I back up windows mail to an external Hard Drive?

I am currently running Vista Home Premium and windows mail.
I am looking forhelpon backing up windows mail to an external Hard Drive.
I also have a memory stick 16G. Can anyone please help me out and show me a path
as to how I can backup the windows mail files onto the externa; hard drive. Itis a
Seagate 3.0.

Thank you

JIm

Welcome
Im not currently at home and am going by memory. If you look at the top of your inbox email, you will see (on top) file. I believe if you click on that you will see export and import, hit export.

To help with what Richard posted.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/90298-windows-mail-messages.html

Re: Windows Mail - Messages

Hi, This is Jim thank you for the help.
I did try and follow the steps given yo me with no success. I am very new to this and I believe the reason for the fix is not working is my error. Would someone out there be willing to perhaps walk me thru the steps one at a time so I can learn this correctly'
really would appreciate all the help I can get.
Thanks again for your efforts.

Hello Jim,

I'm sorry to hear that. What were your results, or what part didn't work for you?

The key step is step 1 of creating a empty new folder to import your email messages into at step 6.

Hi Brink
Thank you for getting back to me.
My problem is that I don't know were or how to create the new folder. I imagine I can copy and paste the link that was was given to me.,
but were do I create theflder... microsoft word , my email.. etc. etc.
I believe that is why I need to have a one on one phone chat. This way I can take quick notes and eable to proceed on my own.
thanks again

You can right click on your desktop, click on New, and Folder to create a "New Folder" on your desktop. From there, you would follow the steps in the tutorial link below to export your messages into the "New Folder".

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/90298-windows-mail-messages.html