Error Importing Saved .pst file

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Tonino

I formatted my PC and then installed Office 2003 on a fresh and clean XP
pro. I created an account in Outlook, closed the program, and started it
again. Then I tried to import a Personal File Folder previously saved.
Outlook refused to do so, showing a message saying it was not a valid .pst
file. Sure it was! What went wrong and how can I fix this? There are emails
and contacts of the last 2 years in that file. It would be really awful to
lose all that job.
Thanks in advance.
Antonio
 
If backup was on cd you have to copy from cd to hd, then ensure read only is
off, before in OL File/Open/Personal Folders.........browse to yr pst
David
 
I have the same problem. After exporting the file tp a pst file I burne
it on a disk. Then I resinstalled my system and Outlook XP and it say
the PST file is invalid.

THings I've tried already:
- Going back to Outlook 2000 - all the same.
- removing the read-only property. File is still invalid
- recovering the pst file with the windostool scanpst.exe. This seeme
like the solution, but then there is no more error message, but th
e-mails still don't appear in my inbox.

Please please, anybody, help me-
Cheers
Nic
 
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