Unable to import or use old .pst file

[Guest]

After my PC crashed when installing XP SP2 (now known registery file error
with 64 bit Athlons!) I managed to go in in "safe mode" and copy my
outlook.pst file to CD (about 14MB), but couldn't recover windows. So, I then
completely re-loaded XP / SP2 / Office 2003 successfully and tried importing
my old outlook.pst file, but it keeps coming up with an error saying the file
is not a personal folders file. It won't open as an Outlook data file or
import within Outlook. Is it possible the original file is corrupted, or am I
missing something obvious? It shows as an Outlook file in Windows Explorer.
An ideas?

 

[Guest]

P.S. I've already copied the outlook.pst file from CD to my hard drive and in
doing so it removed the "read only" status. so it's no that! I'm lost...

 

[Guest]

P.P.S. I've now tried running scanpst.exe and it says it cannot recognise the
file and that no data can be recovered. Oh well...