Is PST file hopelessly corrupted?

[CRG]

User has Outlook 2003. A 400mb PST file suddenly will not open.

When opening with File/Open Outlook Data File the error is "out of memory or
system resources. Close applications and try again".

When trying to copy the pst file to the network or the local drive, the
error is something like "Failed cyclic redundancy check." I did a chkdsk on
the drive; no help. SCANPST.EXE failed too.

Is there any way to recover this file?

TYIA!

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Make sure the file is not marked read-only -- Outlook needs write access to
the file. Also, the cyclic redundancy check error usually occurs when a file
is coming from a bad CD/DVD and the file has been damaged. However, it's not
necessarily unfixable.

Try the different ideas on this page (it's not just about the scanpst.exe
file): http://www.slipstick.com/problems/scanpst.htm

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Pat Willener]

Despite the good chkdsk result, this may still be a hardware error. Try
a full chkdsk with the /R option.