Inbox Repair Tool

[Greg Ennis]

Everyone,

I am running Outlook2000 SP-3 on an XP Professional system. I have a large
archive Outlook *.pst file that has become corupt. When I try to access it
I get a message from Outlook telling me to run the "Inbox Repair Tool".

I do not have any menu reference for this tool but did find it on my system
as 'scanpst.exe' in two versions. One version for W95 and the other for
NT. I tried running both of them on my file but both abort with a message
that the file is corupt.

Is there another version of scanpst.exe that might work, or are there other
things I could try to recover this file. Your help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Greg Ennis

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Try alternating Scanpst.exe with Scandisk.exe or another hard disk repair
tool 3-4 times. The problem may be deeper than the file. See
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/scanpst.htm for more information.

 

[Greg Ennis]

Sue,

Thanks much! I'll give it a try!

Greg