I had a virus and you folks helped me clean it out of my system.
http://forums.whatthetech.com/Audio_clips_...781#entry461781

Now it's clean, but it came with another problem. I can no longer open my Outlook 2007. It says that the PST file is corrupt. I have run scanpst.exe and the problem still presists.

I figured it out.
I used the scanpst.exe app found in one of the following folders:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033

The scan found some errors and fixed them but Outlook would still not open the PST file.

What I missed was that the scanpst.exe application found in these folders is for Outlook 2003, I has since upgraded to Outlook 2007 Enterprise Ed.
The scanpst app is different for this version and in another location:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

I ran this version on the corrupt PST and it fixed some errors found and I was able to open the PST in Outlook with no further issues.

This post has been edited by kreep: May 16 2008, 08:11 PM

Glad you got it fixed

Hi,

You can try a 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.

And you can just download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe

Hope this helps.

Alan

Your pst file seems to be corrupted badly since you are not able to repair your file. But you need not to worry. You can repair it with the help of pst repair software. It is easy to use and provides best recovery solution.It will scan the entire damaged .pst file and extract and save information in a new usable .pst file. It creates the unique profile for individual PST files. It restores formatting from RTF and HTML messages. The pst repair software also helps repair and recover password protected and encrypted .pst files. It provides Download the free demo version of software from the site:
http://www.repair-outlook-pst.com/
In demo you will able to see preview of 5 emails and 20% of your contacts and calender entries.After getting desired results go for full version to complete your recovery.

What have others experienced using this or other tools? I need to recover an address book and calendar from a 1.2Gb PST that Outlook can't open (crashes with error message that it can't use the file) after using the mailbox repair tool. While the above looks to be a useful post, I'd rather have realworld success recommendations, or stay-away-froms.

Thx.