Corrupt PST File

[wilksj01]

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

[Moby-Dick]

have you tried scanpst ?

[wilksj01]

Yeah, it just says the file is invalid.

[ultimate]

Try this link and try the demo file.

http://www.scandbx.com/

[Splash]

the file extension is .pst right?

[Nick F]

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?

[fyz]

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

[shaithis]

If the PST has been corrupted by ransomware, then nothing will fix it.

Do you know the source of the corruption?

[peterb]

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!