archive will not install

Hi,
I archived some emails (outlook 2007 on Vista laptop) and then saved that
file to an external drive. I then had to reinstall the operating system on
the laptop and lost everything except for the backups including the
outlook.pst file and the archive.pst files. I re-installed the same version
of Outlook 2007 and installed the emails as before. The only problem is now
when I try to import or open the archive.pst file (That is its name and it
is 250mb) I get an error telling me that it isn't a personal folder file. I
have tried repairing it with scanpst but this doesn't seem to recognise the
file either. Now I am stuck. Is there any way of recovering/repairing this
file?

Since you tried to import these files, I would guess you made similar errors
when you created and transported these files. Tell us in detail how you did
so. Make sure you removed any read only attribute these files may have
acquired during whatever process you used.
--
Russ Valentine
"lenny109" wrote in message
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Hi,
I archived some emails (outlook 2007 on Vista laptop) and then saved that
file to an external drive. I then had to reinstall the operating system on
the laptop and lost everything except for the backups including the
outlook.pst file and the archive.pst files. I re-installed the same
version of Outlook 2007 and installed the emails as before. The only
problem is now when I try to import or open the archive.pst file (That is
its name and it is 250mb) I get an error telling me that it isn't a
personal folder file. I have tried repairing it with scanpst but this
doesn't seem to recognise the file either. Now I am stuck. Is there any
way of recovering/repairing this file?

lenny109 wrote:

Hi,
I archived some emails (outlook 2007 on Vista laptop) and then saved that
file to an external drive. I then had to reinstall the operating system on
the laptop and lost everything except for the backups including the
outlook.pst file and the archive.pst files. I re-installed the same version
of Outlook 2007 and installed the emails as before. The only problem is now
when I try to import or open the archive.pst file (That is its name and it
is 250mb) I get an error telling me that it isn't a personal folder file. I
have tried repairing it with scanpst but this doesn't seem to recognise the
file either. Now I am stuck. Is there any way of recovering/repairing this
file?

"external drive" tells us NOTHING about what is that actual drive. If it is
an optical disc drive, like CD-R[W] or DVD-R[W], that disc is read-only
(requiring burner software to write to it). All files to that ROM
(read-only media) disc is, well, read-only. When you copy files from that
ROM media, the read-only file attribute is retained on the copied files. So
copy the .pst file from the optical disc to your hard disk and the use the
properties on that hard disk file to remove the read-only file attribute.