Cyclic Redundancy Error

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Outlook has been very sluggish and in fact makes my whole pc sluggish.

Recently when trying to do a search of my emails I got an error that
it couldn't access the .pst file due to a cyclic data redundancy. Is
there a way to fix this? It was actually happening earlier and I
uninstalled it and bought a fresh copy and reinstalled. Any thoughts
appreciated (well good ones at least )

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Aloha (e-mail address removed),

Hmmm...I don't recall seeing that error before. What version of Outlook
are you using?

You might see if this article helps: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319128/en-us


-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr - MVP
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[Raul]

It looks like the PST file has gone corrupt. You could possible use a third
party tool to restore data

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You might want to run chkdsk /r from a command prompt to see if your disk has some bad sectors.

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After furious head scratching, (e-mail address removed) asked:

| Outlook has been very sluggish and in fact makes my whole pc sluggish.
|
| Recently when trying to do a search of my emails I got an error that
| it couldn't access the .pst file due to a cyclic data redundancy. Is
| there a way to fix this? It was actually happening earlier and I
| uninstalled it and bought a fresh copy and reinstalled. Any thoughts
| appreciated (well good ones at least )

 

[K. Orland]

Milly is right. This is the result of bad sectors on the harddrive where the
PST is located. Run the command Milly suggested and then use scanpst.exe to
try and correct any errors in the PST file - you may have to run it multiple
times.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/crcerror.htm

 

[cncf]

Milly is right. This is the result of bad sectors on the harddrive where the
PST is located. Run the command Milly suggested and then use scanpst.exe to
try and correct any errors in the PST file - you may have to run it multiple
times.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/crcerror.htm

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Kathleen Orland
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You might want to run chkdsk /r from a command prompt to see if your disk has some bad sectors.

Hmm, I don't seem to have scanpst.exe (Win XP). Is there a way do
download it?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hmm, I don't seem to have scanpst.exe (Win XP). Is there a way do
download it?

It's usually in %CommonProgramFiles%\System\MSMAPI\1033 for U.S. English
installations.