Windows crashed outlook pst cannot be used in reinstalled outlook

[Gaboe]

Hello!

Can anybody help. My windows crashed. I could reinstall it
and since I stored pst on different partition I still have
it but I can not open it in Outlook 2002. it sais it is
not a valid personal folder file.
What can I do......??????


Thanks for help
Gábor

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Make sure the file is read/write accessible. Then run scanpst.exe against it
to check for errors. If this is succesful you should be able to open it via
File-> Open-> Outlook Data File...

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Hello!

Can anybody help. My windows crashed. I could reinstall it
and since I stored pst on different partition I still have
it but I can not open it in Outlook 2002. it sais it is
not a valid personal folder file.
What can I do......??????


Thanks for help
Gábor