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" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news11B30E4-5148-44C2-8D82-6C2D1DECA627@microsoft.com...
>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" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news11B30E4-5148-44C2-8D82-6C2D1DECA627@microsoft.com...
> >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" <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?

Is it possible to import the pst files into some other mail program,
Like Mozilla Thunderbird or something, and from there export it to
outlook (in the case of thunderbird, the exporting bit might be a bit
tricky though).
I had a similar problem where the pst file had somehow gone
"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" <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?
>
>

"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.
>

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" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> 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" <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?
>>
>>

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?
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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

"Gordon" wrote:

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