Why does scanpst.exe not work? What is the message? Did Office Maintenance
work? Do you have a bad sector where the .pst file resides? Try running
chkdsk /r.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, afterhours asked:

| An outlook 2007 pst file is corrupt, and we have to retrieve as much
| info as possible from it. scanpst.exe doesn't fix it. It is 1.2 Gb
| in size. Our focus is primarily the contacts and calendar, but
| any/all information recovered has value.
|
| There are a lot of different software repair tools (shareware and
| commercial) out there, but no one seems to rate them.
|
| If you have first-hand experience using these tools good or bad,
| please tell me what you used and how well it worked with your 2007
| pst recovery efforts. I'm not looking for shills for products --
| just real world experiences so we can eval what may be worth
| buying/using.
|
| thanks.