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This will only work if you did not delete the content of your old drive, of course.

For instance (my case), I have a Vista on my C Drive and decided to install a Windows7 on my D Drive. Those are the Drive names based on my Vista perspective.

Which OS perspective is important to note because the drive names switch once you've logged into the second OS because it treats the Drive where you installed it as the primary Drive.

After successfully logging into my Windows7 account, I install Skype but could not access my Skype logs from my Vista.

How to get your old Skype logs?

1. Close your Skype application. Hit Exit, and don't just close the window because that's still running on the background.

2. Go to your Old OS primary drive to access your old Skype conversation history. (Let's assume that C is your new primary drive for your new OS and D is your Old OS primary drive because that's the most common scenario):

D:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\SkypePM
D:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Skype

3. Copy these over to your new Skype logs folder (the same path, but with a different drive):

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\SkypePM
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Skype

Done!

WARNING:
If you copy over the old Skype log files into the new folder then you're also erasing the existing conversations you have on your new Skype installation.

Unfortunately, there's no way to merge the old and the new conversation history. Best do this on your fresh installation, before you incur any