Unable to Open PST file, message (.pst is not a personal folders f

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here i copied my .pst file, may be while copying outlook was opened,

Now i formatted my PC. how to recover my .pst file. any suggestion will be
highly appreciated, thanks.


MAK
 
Installing Outlook will not recover a .pst file from a formatted drive.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Peter Foldes asked:

| Install Outlook
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| || here i copied my .pst file, may be while copying outlook was opened,
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|| Now i formatted my PC. how to recover my .pst file. any suggestion
|| will be highly appreciated, thanks.
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|| MAK
 
Yes, but just installing Outlook will not recover his .pst file for use.

He must use FIle->Open->Outlook Data File. Then make the newly opened file
the default using Data File Management. As he stated, he cannot open it so
I suggested running scanpst.exe.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Peter Foldes asked:

| Milly
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| He has the pst files on a back up but he cannot open them
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| || Installing Outlook will not recover a .pst file from a formatted
|| drive.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||
||
|| After furious head scratching, Peter Foldes asked:
||
||| Install Outlook
|||
|||
||| |||| here i copied my .pst file, may be while copying outlook was
|||| opened,
||||
|||| Now i formatted my PC. how to recover my .pst file. any suggestion
|||| will be highly appreciated, thanks.
||||
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|||| MAK
 
Make sure that the read-only attribute is not set, run scanpst against
the file (make another backup before that), then open it with Outlook.
 
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