How do I restore my Outlook from an archive.pst file?

[jonin6]

I've had to redo my HDD, therefore Win XP and Office 2003 have been
re-installed from scratch. I have an archive.pst file and I've tried going
to File>Import and Export and importing the file and I've also tried
File>Open>Outlook Data File and select the "archive.pst" and I get an error
that the file is not a personal folders file. Can anyone offer any solution?

 

[DL]

The pst has to be located on the HD, with read only flag off.
Do not use Import, use Open, if there are still errors, and the repair tool,
scanpst.exe, cannot help then likely the origonal copy process failed

I've had to redo my HDD, therefore Win XP and Office 2003 have been
re-installed from scratch. I have an archive.pst file and I've tried going
to File>Import and Export and importing the file and I've also tried
File>Open>Outlook Data File and select the "archive.pst" and I get an error
that the file is not a personal folders file. Can anyone offer any

solution?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've had to redo my HDD, therefore Win XP and Office 2003 have been
re-installed from scratch. I have an archive.pst file and I've tried
going to File>Import and Export and importing the file and I've also
tried File>Open>Outlook Data File and select the "archive.pst" and I
get an error that the file is not a personal folders file. Can
anyone offer any solution?

If your PST is on your hard drive and not read-only, if you get the message
that the file is not a personal folders file, then it is toast. If the data
it contained is very valuable, you'll have to purchase one of the PST
recovery tools available commercially.

 

[jonin6]

The pst file is located on the HDD and the read only flag is off. I didn't
use import, I used Open and the same error still appeared. I ran the
scanpst.exe and it said file was repaired, but there lik 97% of the data
missing from the file. None of my contacts or calendar data was retrieved.
What can I do?