Roady
Sat Jul 05 12:59:54 PDT 2008
> I see that this topic comes up ALOT with Outlook.
Well, that is the whole purpose of having a newsgroup completely dedicated
to Outlook... ;-)
My experience; try them all. Each corruption is different and each tool
handles a certain corruption better than the other. Sadly, you don't know
what the corruption is beforehand. Most recovery tools have a demo mode in
which the tool tells you which items can be recovered. Choose after that.
In my tests OutlookFIX came out the winner but your mileage my very
depending on the corruption you are trying to recover;
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/cimaware_outlookfix
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"paul vail" <paul@afterhoursconsulting.org> wrote in message
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> I see that this topic comes up ALOT with Outlook. With regard to Outlook
> 2007, I have a 1.2 Gb PST file recovered from a failing external USB
> drive. It as critical contact and calendar information, along with the
> email.
>
> scanpst.exe did not sufficiently repair the file to be able to have
> Outlook 2007 access it. We're ready to move on to better options for data
> recovery.
>
> Of the software THAT YOU HAVE TRIED, what has worked well for you? We see
> a wide variety of options that claim to get everything back, from $30 to
> $250 and up. We will do this ourselves, as the pay-to-recovery firms are
> using the same tools and we'd just as soon own it ourselves than pay their
> rates.
>
> So if you have actually tried one or more products, can you offer your
> experience, successes and failures?
>
> Thanks.