Recovering lost outlook.pst

[Guest]

For long time i was using my laptop as standalone PC. But last week I tried to connect to Novell LAN in my office, i was unable to connect to the LAN server. On further trials i came to conclusion that my personal PC profile name was clashing with the LAN user login. Therefore I changed my personal profile to the LAN name. The PC asked me about the saving the data of all the last profile which I said Yes. But after sucessful change in the name, I saw all the word and excel files are intact but the outlook files are not existing. It was not having the outlook.pst file. I am currently using the Windows XP and outlook 2003. My outlook.pst is missing. I tried to search the file but it is not found. I used the "Get the file" recovery software... It gave me my one year old outlook.pst but the latest outlook.pst is not to be traced. My outlook.pst file is less than 1GB. The archive.pst is available. Pl help me

Mohan Jain

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Search for *.pst and make sure you're looking in hidden/system folders as
well.

 

[Guest]

already searched. the outlook.pst is not to be traced
Mohan Jain

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Do you still see the old profile name in your c:\documents & settings\...
folder in Explorer? Did you take ownership of it? See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product=winxp

Then re-run your search - of all your local hard drives.

Afterwards, if it hasn't shown up, and you are quite sure that a) your PST
file was indeed located on your local computer and b) it isn't showing up in
system/hidden folders, it's gone....

Not sure what you meant about changing your profile. Do you mean you changed
your computer name? Login name? What exact steps did you take?

 

[John]

Hi, I was wondering about sharing and 'ownership' too.
When I right click on a shared file (logged in as
administrator on Win XP) I don't get a "Security" tab.
How can I enable it?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Sounds like you're not using NTFS as your disk format. FAT32 doesn't have
any security to speak of. You can convert to NTFS if you want, but note that
the cluster size will be 512k if you use the native convert command, which
isn't as good for performance...this may or may not make any difference for
you. I believe PartitionMagic has a utility that lets you convert and select
a more optimal cluster size.

Probably best to post WinXP questions to one of the WinXP groups, in the
future.

 

[Reg Hamilton]

Go to www.recovermyfiles.com and download their demo program. Search for
deleted PST files. Also add your 'C:' to the search criteria and search all
your active files in case it has become hidden or moved. If it is still
there, Recover My Files should find it.

Good luck


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"