PST issues

[NickFRP]

got a problem, a member of staff's pc has had a heart attack, and died. NOW
i have taken the HD out and started to pull desktop docs over to mine via a IDE usb drive. i have copied over 6 PST files, but his MAIN one wont come over saying its corrupt. i cant run a scanpst.exe on it either.

Any ideas how to recover the er

Thanks
Nick

[TheGriffalo]

Are you importing directly from the files into Outlook or just performing a file copy from HDD to HDD?

Firstly, chkdsk the donor disc to see that all's well. Then copy the file to the new HDD, check it's not flagged RO (happens when you copy .PST files using CD and makes it an arse to import... I would imagine )

Where does that leave you?

[Podie]

How large is the PST in question..? Older types over 2GB are notorious for corrupting...

Can you open it within the Outlook client, or is that a no go?

[NickFRP]

thanks you 2, im restarting my PC to checkdisc the donor disk. il be back in a few mins and let you knwo what happens

[NickFRP]

lots of corrupt parts coming up on check disc

[NickFRP]

Sorting index $I30 in file 154609.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178111.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178111.
Sorting index $I30 in file 178111.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178155.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178155.
Sorting index $I30 in file 178155.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178206.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178206.
Sorting index $I30 in file 178206.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178513.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178513.
Sorting index $I30 in file 178513.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178543.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178543.
Sorting index $I30 in file 178543.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178544.
Correcting error in index $I30 for file 178544.
Sorting index $I30 in file 178544.
13 percent completed.
14 percent completed.
An unspecified error occurred.

is this the end of the HD? the Chkdisk stops there

Edited by NickFRP on Monday 18th February 11:59

Edited by NickFRP on Monday 18th February 12:05

[TheGriffalo]

Keep running it till it runs clean. It often says it can't go on.... And then does

[NickFRP]

TheGriffalo said:

Keep running it till it runs clean. It often says it can't go on.... And then does

your right, but once i had done the 4th scan it said all was fine. went to the PST file and it was 0kb so from 1.7gig is now 0 ohh well, user should have backed it up

never mind