Re: Inability to archive Outlook 2003 data by DL
DL
Mon Mar 31 04:47:06 PDT 2008
You cannot use scanpst.exe on a data file that is open within OL
Once you have located scanpst.exe, if neccessary create a shortcut
chkdsk is the new scandisk
"Frustrated Dave" <FrustratedDave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:CCB32810-B25F-47DE-B229-1AD48003E4FF@microsoft.com...
> Thanks fix worked. Searched for SCANPST.EXE on my PC found it as a file
> associated with Office. (Incidentally is there a quicker way to launch
> this
> other than searching eg through Outllook?) It told me that this tool
> was
> unable to continue as I first needed to clean the drive with SCANDISK.
> Seeing that I do not have SCANDISK installed on my PC, I used Norton Disk
> Doctor instead. SANPTS.EXE then cleaned up the file which I was then
> able
> to copy elsewhere and it then allowed me to re-format the disk. I now
> seem
> to be able to copy the archive.pst to and from that Drive.
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> Then try the repair tool, scanpst.exe on the problem file
>>
>> "Frustrated Dave" <FrustratedDave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:3A848B77-81E4-4B56-AE8C-E291D079F8DB@microsoft.com...
>> >
>> >
>> > "DL" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Its allmost certainly nothing to do with OL, possibly your external
>> >> drive
>> >> is
>> >> going south.
>> >> Have you tried copying any other large files from your external to
>> >> your
>> >> PC?
>> >> What size is the archive & is your external set up as fat or ntfs?
>> >> And if you run the disk checking utility available from your external
>> >> hd
>> >> manufacturers site what does that report?
>> >>
>> >> "Frustrated Dave" <FrustratedDave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> >> message news:78A83E56-AFE1-4D1A-A547-AA04E898D05D@microsoft.com...
>> >> > My archive data has been set to archive on an external drive. I
>> >> > have
>> >> > had
>> >> > no
>> >> > problems until recently when archiving begins and is almost 80%
>> >> > complete.
>> >> > It
>> >> > stops tells me that I have an "I/O" error. I thought that I would
>> >> > clean
>> >> > up
>> >> > the external drive by re-formatting that drive to solve the problem.
>> >> > Prior
>> >> > to re-formatting I was going to copy the data including archive.pst
>> >> > on
>> >> > another drive. I found that when I was copying archive.pst the
>> >> > same
>> >> > problem
>> >> > as the above occurred. I don't want to lose my already "archived"
>> >> > data.
>> >> > Question how do I save my archived data and continue to be able to
>> >> > archive
>> >> > it? What is the fix please?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Two large files on the ext drive: archive.pst = 1,597,137 KB and
>> >> Outlook
>> >> Backup.pst = 295.633 KB. No problems in copying the latter.
>>
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