By: clivejones

clivejones — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:20:39 +0000

Thanks to all the problem is partly solved. I followed Ugauga’s advice and located the *.pst file on the old corrupted hard drive I had removed. I then looked at Microsoft’s article on how to repair e-mail messages and tried to follow their advice. In the end, I cut and pasted the Outlook.pst file from the corrupt hard disk into the C:documents and settingsUSERlocal settingsapplication dataMicrosoftOutlook file. The result is that all my emails have been restored into the current Inbox although the folders have not been restored. In the location, I now have extend.dat outlook.pst and personal folders(1).pst. I guess I can go through all the emails and transfer them to new folders to match what I had before. At least, I have the emails! Any further advice welcome but, in the meantime, many thanks to both of you. This is my very first visit to the itknowledgeexchange and it has certainly proved profitable!

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:30:31 +0000

In case your PST file is hidden, make sure you have enabled the ‘Show hidden files and folders’ setting on your drive’s folder options.

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