Outlook PST repair [Archive]

Darat

22nd October 2006, 03:46 AM

I had a power loss yesterday and it seems my Outlook 2007 main PST file has become corrupted.

I've tried to run scanpst but it falls over without repairing it - I've found some on-line utilities and tried them in demo mode and they seem to be able to recover the data from the corrupted file however they are very expensive.

Anyone know a *free* utility?

Ian Osborne

22nd October 2006, 08:17 AM

What are the expensive ones?

Darat

22nd October 2006, 08:22 AM

$129 & $249

Ian Osborne

22nd October 2006, 08:29 AM

But what's the name of the utilities?

Darat

22nd October 2006, 08:32 AM

Oh right Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Professional and ... can't remember!

kittykatkarma

22nd October 2006, 08:41 AM

If your .pst is larger than 2 GB that could cause the repair tool to fail and you may need to create a truncated copy of the file.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296088/