How to recover data from a pst file of 0KB

[Guest]

Some time yesterday my machine crashed (Windows 2000 NTFS) and lost the OS
and almost all of the files data and programs. However, I was able to access
the disk by installing it into a second machine with the same OS, and
virtually all the files and directories have gome and a found.000 directory
was created with ~7GB of data. A large number of files had completely
vanished and when I did a search for outlook I got and several .chk files and
a pst file of 0KB amongst others.

Is it possible to recover the data from the pst file as I need some of the
emails?

Does the pst file save the data as text format or binary as if it is the
latter I could grep for strings such as .com?

Thanks in advance
David

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can try running Scanpst.exe against it, but I wouldn't hold out much hope.

If you set up the .pst file to be encrypted, which is the default, it will be in binary format.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers