Need Urgent Help With Outlook 2003.

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Need Urgent Help With Outlook 2003.

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Uraiser View Member Profile	Apr 8 2008, 02:29 PM Post #1
Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 226 Joined: 28-December 04 From: San Antonio, Tx Member No.: 8,071	Yesterday we had a disc drive failure within windows, and the only solution was to format the drive. So I backed up what I was told to back up, completely forgetting about the .pst file for outlook to import on the fresh install. So, long story short, I was sweating like mad trying to find the fragmented files, I found 26 different .pst files within the drive, spanning from 2kb all the way to 1.99 GB. (Read: I recovered these files after the format was complete) I tried to import the larger ones as I know those are usually the personal folders, well errors came back and it could not be completed. So I tried the scanpst.exe built in with outlook, it said it fixed the errors, so I tried to import again, it said values were outside the parameters and canceled itself. There are about 2 years worth of orders in there that I need to recover, I have them right in front of me, I just hope they're able to be fully imported within outlook. Does anyone have any solutions? Or suggestions?

garmanma View Member Profile	Apr 8 2008, 06:33 PM Post #2
Computer Masochist Group: Moderator Posts: 7,405 Joined: 27-January 07 From: Cleveland, Ohio Member No.: 108,618	Worth a shot "For seriously corrupted PST files, try running Scandisk.exe (look under Programs \| Accessories \| System Tools) first, then Scanpst.exe, repeating 3-4 times until neither program returns an error. We've know this technique to restore data that the user though was lost forever." -------------------- Mark why won't my laptop work? Having grandkids is God's way of giving you a 2nd chance because you were too busy working your butt off the 1st time around Avatar by Handplane

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