Hi all,
i have a drive that was reformatted and windows xp reinstalled on it and all data on the drive was lost.
I need to extract a pst file from the old partition, am not sure of the exact size of the pst, but the user estimates it to be btwn 1.5gb to 6gb.
i have been using winhex 13 to try and recovery by type, winhex is able to recover some pst's (over 20 files) but i am not able to import them to microsoft outlook.
what could i be missing?
i have used most of the other known tools and i am able to get all the old data that was there but am not able to get any pst
or whats the best approach shoul i take to try and get this pst out.
your kind assistance is appreciated.
One of the best pst recovery tools I've used is scanpst. What's even better is that you probably already have it. It is a Microsoft application and is stored (at least in my version) in the Program Files\Windows Messaging folder. It will probably pull it out in pieces as a 6 gig pst will likely be fairly fragmented.
i think i have been able to do it, i curved out the files using winhex and got the many pst files
then i got this application; Recovery For Outlook
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Which i have used to recover the emails then import recovered pst files to Microsoft outlook
i am still doing it as at now but i am very hopefully i will get good results.
My main worry is that i am getting very old mails like year 2004 and 2005 but none for 2006, i dont know if the pst's files i curved out are not part of the recent emails send but i am hoping i will get them.
Also none of the pst recovered has no contacts.
best wishes