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Recovering Oversized PST Files Guide

This document provides instructions for recovering data from an oversized Outlook .pst file that exceeds the 2GB size limit using the Oversized PST Recovery utility. The utility creates a new .pst file under the size limit by following steps to select the oversized file, specify a new file path and size cutoff, and start the recovery process. Additional steps use the Inbox Repair Tool to repair the new file. Recovered items are placed in a "Lost & Found" folder with numbered subfolders.

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Recovering Oversized PST Files Guide

This document provides instructions for recovering data from an oversized Outlook .pst file that exceeds the 2GB size limit using the Oversized PST Recovery utility. The utility creates a new .pst file under the size limit by following steps to select the oversized file, specify a new file path and size cutoff, and start the recovery process. Additional steps use the Inbox Repair Tool to repair the new file. Recovered items are placed in a "Lost & Found" folder with numbered subfolders.

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How to Use the Oversized PST Recovery Utility

This utility is for recovering most of the data that exists in a .pst file that has grown over the 2 GB limit. It does
this by creating a new file under the 2 GB limit. There are 4 steps to recovering an oversized .PST file:

1. Open the Oversized PST Recovery utility


2. Click Browse and select the existing oversized PST file.
3. Click Create and select a path and file name for the new .PST file where the recovered data will
be saved (on the same machine the source file is on).
4. Select how much to cut off the 2 GB file (specified in megabytes - MB).
Note: It is best to start low 15 – 20 MB the first run, and then if not able to recover the .PST, try cutting
off more until it works.
5. Click Start.
6. When it finishes successfully, click OK to clear the confirmation box and click Close.
7. Open the Inbox Repair Tool ([Link]).
8. Select the new .PST that was created in the previous steps.
9. Click Start.
10. When the Inbox Repair Tool is done, choose Repair.

Open the repaired .PST file in Outlook (if the repair was successful), and the recovered items and folders will
be in a folder called Lost & Found. Each recovered folder will be called Recovered Folder followed by an ID
number.

For best results, the source file and target file should be on the same machine where the tool is run. Using the
network to transfer file data has caused malformed target files (this doesn't damage the original PST file).

The program can be run with a –s switch that allows you to use it on any size .pst file, and prevents any data
from being cut from the end of the file. This mode will not work to recover files that are over the size limit, as
they will require some reduction in size, but it can be used on files that are under the limit that are not showing
any. It only resets the header information in the .pst file, and then [Link] can be used to rebuild it.

Errors

This program requires [Link] to run, if you receive an error regarding this file, copy the file to your
system directory*.

The program also requires [Link] to be present and registered on the system to run. This file is included
with Office 2000 and Visual Studio products.

To fix the [Link] error:


1. Copy the [Link] file to the system directory*
2. Click Start and Click Run
3. Type regsvr32 <path_to_msstdfmt.dll> where the path is the path to the system directory
(illistrated in step one) followed by the file name ([Link]) –
example: regsvr32 C:\Windows\System\[Link]
4. Click OK

*For Windows 95/98:


C:\Windows\System
For Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000:
X:\WINNT\System32
note: substitute your system drive for X:\ and your windows directory for WINNT and Windows.
New in 1.5.2

contains fix for error that states file is under minimum size when files are over 2GB.

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