Is it possible to retreive a deleted outlook file?

[Patty]

I used to have my entire data fie for my ooutlook, I would archive to it
everyday, leaving only the day's work on the personal folder located on the
CPU hard drive, there was a problem with the community power the other day
and after that I could not retrive my data from the external hard drive. I
have tried and tried, nut I have not been able to get it, when I try to open
it by using file/open/data file it gives a message: archive.pst has errors. I
used the scanpst.exe and it tells me that there are errors and it appears to
fix them, but I keep getting the same error when I try to open it, also I
made the mistake of responding yes, when the system told that the old .bat
would be replace, so I am now terrified that I lost all my data, I had e-mail
messages dating back to 1999, my data was huge and extrmelly important, could
some one help me?

My e-mail is (e-mail address removed)

Thanks.

 

[DL]

If you had a power outage its possible that the HD became corrupted and also
any data files.
Try runing chkdsk on the hard drive (see win Help)
then run scanpst.exe if it finds / fixes error run it again until it reports
no err's
(All with OL closed)
PS A UPS may be a good idea

 

[Patty]

Thanks, it did not work! is there a software that I could buy in order to
retreive these .pst files, I know that Norton has a feature that you can run
and it will find files that were erased, either by mistake or because the
user wanted to, do you know of any that I could use to find the erased .pst,
I think that aside from the power, I also got nervous and I perhaps did
something terribly wrong, I cannot recall.

Thanks.

 

[Pat Willener]

If these data are so extremely important, then I am sure you make
regular backups. Restoring from the latest backup will not restore the
messages since the backup date, but everything else before that.

 

[DL]

You did'nt mention deleting, you stated your archive file has errors.
If you deleted a file it would be in your recycle bin.
Removing a data file, within OL doesnt delete it.
Creating a new archive, within OL, does not ovewrite the existing one.
What *.pst files are on your external HD & what are their sizes?