Microsoft Outlook 2003 & corrupt back up - nil success with Inbox repair.!?!?
 

Hi All,
Found your great site whilst looking for alternative ideas to fix problem that has arisen of late. I run Microsoft Outlook Pro 2003 (not exchange server) and recently I have had an increasing amount of problems with Outlook.

It would appear that I have a corrupt section of my hard drive because I very frequently get error / corrupt messages relating to my back up .pst file and location. I have done chkdsk and scanpst to no avail. The attempt to "repair" one of the folders always comes up with "Not responding" and has to be shut down. I am also unable to run a System back up on the machine for some unknown reason.

I now appear to not have the abiltiy to send / receive through Outlook. Also information would not appear in the Reading Pane or I cannot delete certain emails from the Deleted folder in Outlook. It again comes up with "error" type messages.

Questions for you all..
1) Can I somehow delete the current backup files / folders and set up somewhere else. (assuming that the problem relates to a corrupt section of my hard drive).

2) Can I re-install Outlook over the top of the current set up. Wouldn't think that that would help, but not sure.

3) Buy a new Hard drive and transfer info across to new hard drive and bin current / corrupt one

I am at a loss now and would appreciate some assistance.

Cheers
Shane

Re: Microsoft Outlook 2003 & corrupt back up - nil success with Inbox repair.!?!?
 

Reinstalling outlook won't do much.

Ideally you could have done a system restore but you say you can't.

Hmm that makes things messy cos now you have to start playing with registry cleaners etc.

I don't know. Personally, I would back all the .pst files first then do a reformat of the entire harddrive. To me that would be the easiest and quickest solution. If it is only the one pc that is causing all your problems.

Re: Microsoft Outlook 2003 & corrupt back up - nil success with Inbox repair.!?!?
 

Hi, your file is corrupted!

You can try a popular Outlook recovery tool called Advanced Outlook Repair to repair your PST file. It is a powerful tool to recover messages, folders and other objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft Outlook PST files.

Detailed information about Advanced Outlook Repair can be found at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/

And you can also download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe

Alan

Re: Microsoft Outlook 2003 & corrupt back up - nil success with Inbox repair.!?!?
 

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