restore truncated file

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Hi,

Take a look for outlook.bak in the following path.
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
With this information and the version of Outlook in question, ask the
folks on the appropriate Outlook newsgroup for help in restoring it.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://dts-l.org/

dazedandconfused wrote:
> Hi
> for a reason unknown my outlook 2000 pst file was
> truncated. from around 100 Mgs to 16 K
>
> when I try to access it I get an error of course
>
> my last backup was a month ago so I would like to try and
> get back the existing file so I can access the last
> months emails
>
> the file was in a compressed folder, on a shared disk the
> disk was synched to my notebook, unfortunately the
> notebook recieved a synch and got the truncated copy
>
> So I have 2 copied both truncated on 2 different systems,
> neither have had any major disk writes since the error
> was discovered at least one of them should have a good
> copy somewhere on the disk. but the file record is munged
>
> Outlook repair utilities simply return an error and say
> the file is too short to contain valid emails
>
> chkdsk returns a healthy disk so there is no crosslinking
> or anything  
>
> Can I restore the files back to their previous state?
>
> I thought that perhaps rolling back the transaction log
> in the MFT may be able to restore the original file, but
> I can find no way of doing that.
>
> Any other clues? I have tried every disk repair undelete
> tool I can get my hands on and none can do what I need.

Hi,

You can use Outlook recovery tools to repair your PST file. Below is a list of them:

http://www.datanumen.com/aor/compare.htm

Most of them provide a free demo so you can try first.

Steve