How do I export public folder data from inactive exchange server?

I have migrated from SBS2003 (old) to SBS2008 (new)
Used migration wizard / answer etc... All went well, expect for the public folders; which failed.
Question: How do I retrieve the public folder information from the OLD (inactive) server and import it to the NEW server?
The OLD server has been removed from the domain. I have backups of the OLD server and its original hard drive; where the public store info is located.
I tried PDDAVAdmin.exe; did not work for me.
All help is greatly appreciated.
Bill

Hi Amit,
I did as Zoltán said; searched the Internet for edb recovery tools and found a number of companies and Software Products which might help. I also considered your option as well but I have limited experience with building a recovery server and it sounds time consuming.
Our office is small we have 10 users; we keep contact lists in the public folders. I want to restore the contact lists from the inactive source server to the active destination.
I believe the process is called "rehoming" (from the web -- "In a Windows environment, rehoming is the process of moving public folders from one Exchange server to another. It involves the creation of a replica of the public folders on the target destination server, waiting for replication to complete, and then removing the public folders from the original source server.")
Background:
We have two servers FHHSERVER (the source, SBS2003) and FHHSERVER2 (the destination, SBS2008).
I used the SBS2008 migration wizard. The important stuff in the exchange database transferred ok; all emails, schedules, tasks, notes, etc. Everything appeared to work; including public folders.
Microsoft allows a 21 day grace period to complete the migration. I believed the migration was successful so on the 21st day, I followed Microsoft’s instructions and demoted the source server, removing it from the domain.
That’s when the trouble started….
Unknown to me; the public folders remained on the old source server. I did not detect this problem since, during the 21 day migration grace period, the destination server was using the old source server to replicate public folders. As long as the old source server was active, eveyone could open public folder contact lists. After the source server was demoted, the destination server lost its replicate and now our users cannot access that information.
Another problem is that the inactive server is n o longer licensed and the Exchange console cannot connect to its stores.
It would seem to me that this problem should be relatively simple to fix. I need some way to open the public folder stores and export the contact lists. I’m not even sure where the public folder database is located on the hard drive.
I hope this explains the situation in greater detail and that you may be able to offer some insight on how I might resolve this issue.
Oh, I also tried using EXMerge but cannot seem to make it work either. <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=429163EC-DCDF-47DC-96DA-1C12D67327D5&displaylang=en>
Thanks!
Bill

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