The pst has to be located on the HD, with read only flag off.
Do not use Import, use Open, if there are still errors, and the repair tool,
scanpst.exe, cannot help then likely the origonal copy process failed

"jonin6" wrote in message
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I've had to redo my HDD, therefore Win XP and Office 2003 have been
re-installed from scratch. I have an archive.pst file and I've tried
going
to FileImport and Export and importing the file and I've also tried
FileOpenOutlook Data File and select the "archive.pst" and I get an
error
that the file is not a personal folders file. Can anyone offer any
solution?