Restoring pst files after Vista crash

I had to re-install Vista after a system crash. I was able to access the
restore drive via DOS and pull out the pst (Office 2003) files and copy them
to a USB drive. I only had 1 pst file on my system but Vista backed it up to
7 different files. Now when I try to add these files to the restored system
I get an error saying the file is not a a personal folders file. I used
SCANPST on the largest backed up file and it recovered some of my email but
when I try to use SCANPST on the other 6 backup files it says the files are
not personal folders files. I could really use some help in finding a way to
get all 7 pst files recovered so I can put them back together and minimize my
data loss. Thanks...

"Brian" <> wrote in message
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>I had to re-install Vista after a system crash. I was able to access the
> restore drive via DOS and pull out the pst (Office 2003) files and copy
> them
> to a USB drive. I only had 1 pst file on my system but Vista backed it up
> to
> 7 different files.

I don't know what you mean by "restore drive" and how did Vista "back it
up"?

I set Vista to backup my system weekly. It put the backup files on an X
drive while Vista remained on the C drive.

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Brian" <> wrote in message
> news11B30E4-5148-44C2-8D82-...
> >I had to re-install Vista after a system crash. I was able to access the
> > restore drive via DOS and pull out the pst (Office 2003) files and copy
> > them
> > to a USB drive. I only had 1 pst file on my system but Vista backed it up
> > to
> > 7 different files.
>
> I don't know what you mean by "restore drive" and how did Vista "back it
> up"?
>
>

"Brian" <> wrote in message
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>I set Vista to backup my system weekly. It put the backup files on an X
> drive while Vista remained on the C drive.
>

Is the "X" drive a separate physical disk, or is it a partition of the one
HDD?

Is it possible to import the pst files into some other mail program
Like Mozilla Thunderbird or something, and from there export it t
outlook (in the case of thunderbird, the exporting bit might be a bi
tricky though)
I had a similar problem where the pst file had somehow gon
"corrupted", but it could be imported into thunderbird strangely enough

--
Danneman

It's a 15 gig partition. However, once I reinstalled Vista it completely
reformatted the harddrive, partition and all. When I reinstalled Vista it
automatically created another 15 gig partition where my new backups are being
placed.

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Brian" <> wrote in message
> news:5D8DD68E-C1CC-44E0-9035-...
> >I set Vista to backup my system weekly. It put the backup files on an X
> > drive while Vista remained on the C drive.
> >
>
> Is the "X" drive a separate physical disk, or is it a partition of the one
> HDD?
>
>

"Brian" <> wrote in message
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> It's a 15 gig partition. However, once I reinstalled Vista it completely
> reformatted the harddrive, partition and all. When I reinstalled Vista it
> automatically created another 15 gig partition where my new backups are
> being
> placed.
>

So how did you manage to extract the backed-up files "using DOS"?

Do these backup files actually have a .pst suffix or something else?

"Brian" <> wrote in message
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> It's a 15 gig partition. However, once I reinstalled Vista it completely
> reformatted the harddrive, partition and all. When I reinstalled Vista it
> automatically created another 15 gig partition where my new backups are
> being
> placed.
>
> "Gordon" wrote:
>
>> "Brian" <> wrote in message
>> news:5D8DD68E-C1CC-44E0-9035-...
>> >I set Vista to backup my system weekly. It put the backup files on an X
>> > drive while Vista remained on the C drive.
>> >
>>
>> Is the "X" drive a separate physical disk, or is it a partition of the
>> one
>> HDD?
>>
>>

They do have the .pst suffix.

"DL" wrote:

> Do these backup files actually have a .pst suffix or something else?
>
> "Brian" <> wrote in message
> news:117CC243-1DA3-449D-A35D-...
> > It's a 15 gig partition. However, once I reinstalled Vista it completely
> > reformatted the harddrive, partition and all. When I reinstalled Vista it
> > automatically created another 15 gig partition where my new backups are
> > being
> > placed.
> >
> > "Gordon" wrote:
> >
> >> "Brian" <> wrote in message
> >> news:5D8DD68E-C1CC-44E0-9035-...
> >> >I set Vista to backup my system weekly. It put the backup files on an X
> >> > drive while Vista remained on the C drive.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Is the "X" drive a separate physical disk, or is it a partition of the
> >> one
> >> HDD?
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

I put in the recovery disk, went into DOS, found the backup zip files and
copied them to my USB drive.

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Brian" <> wrote in message
> news:117CC243-1DA3-449D-A35D-...
> > It's a 15 gig partition. However, once I reinstalled Vista it completely
> > reformatted the harddrive, partition and all. When I reinstalled Vista it
> > automatically created another 15 gig partition where my new backups are
> > being
> > placed.
> >
>
> So how did you manage to extract the backed-up files "using DOS"?
>
>