damaged personal folders file

[Harry Lubansky]

I have a user that could not open his personal folders
after he crashed in Outlook 2001 two weekends ago. I
discovered that you can only repair the file by copying to
a PC and running the repair tool there, scanpst.exe. The
repair tool read the 1.06 Gb pst (too large, I know) and
repaired it, but showed nothing in recovered files except
a trashcan that was empty.

I am trying to find alternatives for repair, if there are
any, and chances for success. If you try to open the app
with the pst file, you get a message saying that errors
were found in a folder within personal folders.

Here's hoping someone has seen this, and either succeeded
in repair, or says it can't be done. That's my view for
now.

 

[M. Amir Haque [MSFT]]

Make sure you make a copy of the original PST file and then work with that
copy and keep the original safe. I know there are many third party tools
available out there on web which provide more ways to retrieve your data
from a PST or OST file. Search on web for these tools using search strings,
"data recovery pst", for instance.

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M. Amir Haque
Microsoft Enterprise Messaging

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