Corrupted PST file

[Nerm]

I have a crashed hard drive that I was able to recover the customer's Outlook PST file off of via Recover my Files recovery software, however Outlook and scanpst both say the file is corrupt/unrecognizable. Anyone have any suggestions or know of any software that can repair badly damaged PST files?

 

[NYJimbo]

Check this out and see if you can produce any usable results:

http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/repair_outlook.html

 

[Jory]

http://www.technibble.com/repair-tool-of-the-week-scanpst/

 

[Nerm]

Check this out and see if you can produce any usable results:

http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/repair_outlook.html

Thanks, I will check into that!

Jory, as I said originally I have already tried scanpst and it was unsuccessful.

 

[Nerm]

I tried the recovery toolbox software and no luck.

 

[NYJimbo]

I tried the recovery toolbox software and no luck.

You might try sending emails to the tech supports of the products you try, since you are a "potential customer" they might spend a little time trying to help you get through this. Work them over real good. I doubt they will just blow you off if they want to sell the product and you might really find out if the file is toast.

ps- I think the file is toast, but don't take my word for it.

 

[Jory]

My bad, I have a problem with only skimming posts.

 

[JRDtechnet]

Have you tried the hexeditor trick yet?
1. open up your pst with a hex editor.
2. change the first byte from 21 to 00 and save it under a different name
3. run scanpst on the new file.
4. *cross fingers*

 

[Larry Sabo]

Lots of suggestions at this site. You can try deleting chunks of the file using a hex editor and hopefully retrieve some of it. Found this while helping a buddy with a PST larger than 2GB that wouldn't let Outlook open, although I haven't tried it myself.