Transferring emails from Windows Vista Mail into Outlook 2003 on new computer

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Probably an unusual question but would appreciate help with it.

My Windows Vista laptop hard drive has been diagnosed as all but dead and there is a particular email folder that I would like to preserve in its entirety for future reference. I'd like to export it from Vista to a USB stick then into Outlook 2003 which I have successfully installed on a new Windows 10 laptop (because I like the format). I am finding that emails saved onto the USB drive (and this is taking a while because the computer keeps freezing) are in random order and with no identifiable name so I can't tell which is which without opening them all. They are also stored way down a hierarchy of folders which seems never-ending. Is there no way that emails can simply be copied over, maintaining their date order and some kind of recognizable identification?

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