Opening recovered pst files

I had to clear some room on my laptop hard drive, so I moved all of my
documents and large pst files to an external drive. I moved them again to
another external drive, deleted them from the first external drive, then
physically dropped the external drive they were on while it was running. (I
know, I know - always have everything in two places - even for a day!) The
shop says that the dropped disk won't even spin, so I had the deleted files
recovered from the first external drive. I can see them - they look like they
are there, but Outlook does not recognize them. I ran scanpst.exe, but got
the message "An error has occurred; scanning is stopped; no change has been
made to your pst file."
Am I just sunk, or is there yet another possibility to try? I see some
software out there making some claims, but does anyone have any experience
with this specific problem?
Thanks!

The pst-file probably did not get recovered completely and indeed is
damaged. These type of corruption is often too much for scanpst.exe to fix
and you'll need a 3rd party recovery tool.

Personally I had good results with Advanced Outlook Repair from DataNumen;
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/datanumen_outlookrepair
If you decide to order use DNC-PUXB-HT to get a discount.

Another good recovery tool is OutlookFIX from CimaWare;
http://addins.howto-outlook.com/cimaware_outlookfix

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"Mary Lee" <MaryLee.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A7D37E24-9C9C-400A-A7EE-BA7490E177E2@microsoft.com...
> I had to clear some room on my laptop hard drive, so I moved all of my
> documents and large pst files to an external drive. I moved them again to
> another external drive, deleted them from the first external drive, then
> physically dropped the external drive they were on while it was running.
> (I
> know, I know - always have everything in two places - even for a day!) The
> shop says that the dropped disk won't even spin, so I had the deleted
> files
> recovered from the first external drive. I can see them - they look like
> they
> are there, but Outlook does not recognize them. I ran scanpst.exe, but got
> the message "An error has occurred; scanning is stopped; no change has
> been
> made to your pst file."
> Am I just sunk, or is there yet another possibility to try? I see some
> software out there making some claims, but does anyone have any experience
> with this specific problem?
> Thanks!