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HDD Crash and Recovering Backed-Up Outlook 2007
This problem has been haunting me for years but now has become a crisis.
I've been dutifully backing up Outlook.pst to an external HDD. I had a HDD crash last night and data on the drive was unable to be recovered, no problem, I have a back up. I tried to import the backup.pst tonight and it is prompting me for a password. I know, for certain, that I didn't set a password for this file. What's going on? |
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HDD Crash and Recovering Backed-Up Outlook 2007
How did you create the backup?
You dont Import a pst, within Outlook you open it (FileOpenData File) You might want to copy your backup.pst to Documents folder first "Joe Teixeira" wrote in message ... This problem has been haunting me for years but now has become a crisis. I've been dutifully backing up Outlook.pst to an external HDD. I had a HDD crash last night and data on the drive was unable to be recovered, no problem, I have a back up. I tried to import the backup.pst tonight and it is prompting me for a password. I know, for certain, that I didn't set a password for this file. What's going on? |
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HDD Crash and Recovering Backed-Up Outlook 2007
I instructed the Maxtor Backup Manager to back up that file. The file was
copied to my E:\ (external hdd). Per your instruction, I copied the file the the Documents folder, then tried to open it using FileOpenData File. I received a dialog box titled Personal Folders Password, Type the Password for backup.pst. OK - Cancel. I tried hitting Enter. It didn't work. Joe "DL" wrote: How did you create the backup? You dont Import a pst, within Outlook you open it (FileOpenData File) You might want to copy your backup.pst to Documents folder first "Joe Teixeira" wrote in message ... This problem has been haunting me for years but now has become a crisis. I've been dutifully backing up Outlook.pst to an external HDD. I had a HDD crash last night and data on the drive was unable to be recovered, no problem, I have a back up. I tried to import the backup.pst tonight and it is prompting me for a password. I know, for certain, that I didn't set a password for this file. What's going on? |
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HDD Crash and Recovering Backed-Up Outlook 2007
Try these;
1) In explorer ensure the backup is not marked read only 2) search to include hidden for scanpst.exe and run it aginst the backup to see what it reports Then; 3) Does your Maxtor backup utility have an option to restore the backup file, if so restore it to a folder within Documents (*Not* the origonal location), then try to open that within Outlook I suspect that niether of the above will resolve your problem and that the origonal backup failed, perhaps due to outllook not being fully closed when the backup ran. "Joe Teixeira" wrote in message ... I instructed the Maxtor Backup Manager to back up that file. The file was copied to my E:\ (external hdd). Per your instruction, I copied the file the the Documents folder, then tried to open it using FileOpenData File. I received a dialog box titled Personal Folders Password, Type the Password for backup.pst. OK - Cancel. I tried hitting Enter. It didn't work. Joe "DL" wrote: How did you create the backup? You dont Import a pst, within Outlook you open it (FileOpenData File) You might want to copy your backup.pst to Documents folder first "Joe Teixeira" wrote in message ... This problem has been haunting me for years but now has become a crisis. I've been dutifully backing up Outlook.pst to an external HDD. I had a HDD crash last night and data on the drive was unable to be recovered, no problem, I have a back up. I tried to import the backup.pst tonight and it is prompting me for a password. I know, for certain, that I didn't set a password for this file. What's going on? |
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HDD Crash and Recovering Backed-Up Outlook 2007
"Joe Teixeira" wrote in message
... This problem has been haunting me for years but now has become a crisis. I've been dutifully backing up Outlook.pst to an external HDD. I had a HDD crash last night and data on the drive was unable to be recovered, no problem, I have a back up. I tried to import the backup.pst tonight and it is prompting me for a password. I know, for certain, that I didn't set a password for this file. What's going on? This is a fairly conclusive sign that your backup program, whatever it is, doesn't handle PSTs properly and had ruined it. If your backup runs while Outlook is open, that's probably why. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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