MS Outlook crashes Windows when importing large pst file

[Haris Riris]

I recently had to reinstall MS office and Win2K on my PC
because of a virus attack.
I was able to import old archive pst files into outlook
2000 that were relatively small (<1 GByte). My most recent
pst archive which had grown to 1.89 Gbytes crashes the
Operating System (WIn2K) when I try to import it.
As far as I can determine it is free of viruses/worms and
has been scanned by the same SW (Network associates) that
repaired my PCs.

The MS utility to read large pst files (supplied on the MS
support website) does not work - it needs a file that is a
minimum of 2 GB.
The Windows utility (SCANPST.EXE) to repair a pst file
also crashes the OS.
Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
BTW the same problem exists with Outlook97.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

You're still in the danger zone, even at 1.89GB - most people have problems
between 1.2 - 1.5GB.

Can you open up the PST file (not import it) and move some items out to
another PST file, and then compress this one?