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[pexton]

I had a user with an archive.pst sitting on docs and settings/local settings/application data/office/outlook/archive.pst which I stupidly deleted when deleting her corrupt profile before creating a new one. I have run recuvaa twice now and although it finds it, it says it is 0 bytes in size and unrecoverable. It was nearly Gb in size and contained some very important emails. Is this common with .pst files? Can it ever be recovered? Anyone with any suggestions that can help me bring this back, I will gladly take you out to dinner and drinks as getting this back will save my life.

[mikesw]

pexton, on Aug 26 2008, 07:28 AM, said:

I had a user with an archive.pst sitting on docs and settings/local settings/application data/office/outlook/archive.pst which I stupidly deleted when deleting her corrupt profile before creating a new one. I have run recuvaa twice now and although it finds it, it says it is 0 bytes in size and unrecoverable. It was nearly Gb in size and contained some very important emails. Is this common with .pst files? Can it ever be recovered? Anyone with any suggestions that can help me bring this back, I will gladly take you out to dinner and drinks as getting this back will save my life.

Maybe it's something simple and its in the recycle bin?

http://www.officerec...m/freeundelete/
http://undelete-plus.com/
http://www.cgsecurit...g/wiki/TestDisk
http://www.runtime.org/ called getbackdata first 5 files recovered are free.

Be careful not to install this software on the disk drive you are trying to undelete files from. since it
may use the data blocks on the disk thinking they are free to use, but it may be the locations of the
datablocks of the file you are trying to recover.

[Alex Krenvalk]

For work with outlook files try-pst recovery utility,tool helped me many times,as far as i know it is free,utility can process PST and OST files and extract all critical data, no need to wait, it is very fast,supports all Microsoft Windows operating systems, starting from Windows 98 to Windows Vista,working with Outlook pst data recovery software and .pst recovery program,will recreate folder structure and all messages, which are found in your mailbox,preview the results and make sure, that all emails are successfully repaired.

[hazelnut]

Free demo version, but pst recovery utility is actually a shareware.