Restoring pst files after Vista crash

"Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I put in the recovery disk, went into DOS, found the backup zip files and
> copied them to my USB drive.
>

Interesting - I've never seen a "recovery" disk with that sort of
functionality.....

However, as from your other reply the files have a pst extension, just copy
them to your HDD, (don't overwrite any existing files) and in outlook do
File-Open-Outlook Data File and navigate to where you copied them to....

For future info, get a Live Linux CD (there are plenty about - Kubuntu is
the nearest "Windows" equivalent) then if your Vista fails to boot, boot
from that and you will be able to rescue ALL your data onto either a memory
stick or a CDR/DVDR.........

When I try the File-Open-Outlook data and find my PST file I get the
following error: "The file c:\....\Outlook.pst is not a personal folders
file."

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:267C0417-4DA5-4E87-9E78-3050CFBD82D0@microsoft.com...
> >I put in the recovery disk, went into DOS, found the backup zip files and
> > copied them to my USB drive.
> >
>
> Interesting - I've never seen a "recovery" disk with that sort of
> functionality.....
>
> However, as from your other reply the files have a pst extension, just copy
> them to your HDD, (don't overwrite any existing files) and in outlook do
> File-Open-Outlook Data File and navigate to where you copied them to....
>
> For future info, get a Live Linux CD (there are plenty about - Kubuntu is
> the nearest "Windows" equivalent) then if your Vista fails to boot, boot
> from that and you will be able to rescue ALL your data onto either a memory
> stick or a CDR/DVDR.........
>
>

"Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:85BC8230-DF3B-47E0-8665-D27F2284A0DA@microsoft.com...
> When I try the File-Open-Outlook data and find my PST file I get the
> following error: "The file c:\....\Outlook.pst is not a personal folders
> file."
>

Is the Read-Only attribute in force?

No, it's not

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:85BC8230-DF3B-47E0-8665-D27F2284A0DA@microsoft.com...
> > When I try the File-Open-Outlook data and find my PST file I get the
> > following error: "The file c:\....\Outlook.pst is not a personal folders
> > file."
> >
>
> Is the Read-Only attribute in force?
>
>

I find it a little odd that your backup has created number of pst files. Its
not how I understood Vista backup to function, unless Vista back splits a
backup of large files into chunks. If that is the case you would have to
restore the backup files with Vista backup, which would I assume
reconstitute it to a single data file.
Much the same process of restoring a file created with winzip that has been
split into chunks

"Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> They do have the .pst suffix.
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> Do these backup files actually have a .pst suffix or something else?
>>
>> "Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:117CC243-1DA3-449D-A35D-F71B97B191E6@microsoft.com...
>> > 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" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:5D8DD68E-C1CC-44E0-9035-2FBDB725A99C@microsoft.com...
>> >> >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?
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>