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Hi,
I recently had a corrupt hard drive and so I decided to exportmy e-mails to a pst file to put on my new drive. This went as planned, however when trying to restore the pst file outlook 2003 tells me that it is not a valid file. I have tried ontracks e-mail recovery tool plus various others all to no success,
Please, please help!!
Thanks,
James
have you tried scanpst ?
Yeah, it just says the file is invalid.
Try this link and try the demo file.
http://www.scandbx.com/
the file extension is .pst right?
I'm sure I had this problem a couple of years ago with an outlook personal file. Can't you open it with a database program or something then convert it back?
Hi,
You can try a popular Outlook recovery tool called Advanced Outlook Repair to repair your PST file. It is a powerful tool to recover messages, folders and other objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft Outlook PST files.
Hope this still can help.
Alan
If the PST has been corrupted by ransomware, then nothing will fix it.
Do you know the source of the corruption?
I hope that in the intervening 11 years, the OP has solved the problem, otherwise he will have a lot of emails to deal with when his system comes back to life!
Given the age of the thread, I think Ill close it!