CHKDSK has destroyed Outlook and my life! Please help!

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Kind of brings the old saw BUSS to mind! Look for a file called archive.pst
and read Outlook's help for importing it. Everythiung should be there.
BTW, CHKDSK? on XP? Why were you running chkdsk?

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"RobinInTrouble" <RobinInTrouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:56F53B94-8440-4113-B645-B55418D4DA3C@microsoft.com...
> Excuse the hyperbole - but I am in a terrible bind. Windows ran ChkDsk
> for
> problems when it booted up. It spent a long time, so I left the computer.
> I
> peeked back and I notice it had done a ton of operations (deleting things,
> I
> think), but I didn't think to really pay attention.
>
> So after a while WIndows finally loads, I come back, and I log in. I go
> to
> start Outlook and I receive a message saying: "Cannot start Microsoft
> Outlook. The file C;\Documents and Settings\robin\Local
> Settings\Application
> Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file." I
> then
> went to that path and saw that the pst file was 0 KB (as opposed to the
>>100MB I know it used to be.
>
> Is there anyway to recover my old pst file??? Please help me! I a really
> need help. Thank you so much!!!