how can i retrieve all the data from a corrupted outlook 2003 profile &move it to my newer profile?

kikkilu

2.16.09

hi, i am new here. please help me fix a corrupted outlook 2003 profile just to regain its data and move its contents to a new, uncorrupted, outlook 2003 profile that i am now using.

i am so stumped! about a month ago, outlook 2003 told me that my profile was corrupted. i found out how to make a new profile and that is what i did. however, i have, as a result of my long-used old, corrupted, profile with a different USER NAME, lost my calendar, task list, and all the emails that i was keeping affiliated with the old profile. WORST OF ALL:

(a) loss of my contact database (my contacts);
(b) loss of many emails that pertain to my formal writing which i need to publish!
(c) i never opened a .pst file, so i do not know how to open one to regain the data.

i am leary of using any advertised fixes to fix this profile problem.

although i am rather technical, i don't do too well when especially the first step is not in an answer. i am one that needs a complete step by step answer.

my operating system is windows XP professional. i do have a mirror image of my hard drive on an external hard drive, but i cannot retrieve the old profile from it since the files are zipped, and, it is a complete mirror image. i made that image using norton ghost 7.0 BEFORE i learned that my profile had gotten corrupted.

else, just before i was "told" that my outlook 2003 profile had become corrupted, i had made a new user account in windows xp professional, but i did not set up email on that profile.

the only thing i was able to find information that i trusted not to mess up my registry was to create a NEW outlook profile.

so, i did that. and, ps: one of my email accounts using the new outlook 2003 profile will not send email via my outlook new profile account, which is all set up properly to take mail from my web email server (comcast.net).

but the main problem here is that i have no idea how to properly find or open the old, corrupted, outlook 2003 profile so that i can somehow move its components (address book, calendar, notes, tasks, and so on) to the new profile that i created.

even if i could open the old outlook profile to simply do a save as of the data, then at LEAST i could create a comma delineated file for the contacts database and then upload them to the new profile (but i need help with that too, since my MS office 2003 suite doesn't "like" CSV files, but tells me that i should save an excel file as an excel 2003 document and that if i save it as a CSV file, i will lose information).

so, the first thing i need to know is this: once you create a new outlook profile, IS IT POSSIBLE to move, once you can open the old outlook profile, the data that is in the old corrupted profile? AND, how to you open the corrupted profile to understand just what is corrupted, preventing you to use it and forcing you to make a new outlook profile that you have to use right now?

SORRY: if you know how to find, open, retrieve, etc., the data contained in a corrupted outlook 2003 file, please give me step by step procedures to do so, not missing one step by presuming that i would know it. i often find that the FIRST step is that which is missing because a technical person thinks i know the first step...

and, if you cannot move the data to a new outlook profile, what do you do with it to put it into a new outlook profile or to at least save the data as unicode text? that would be more applicable to the emails themselves rather than calendar, tasks, AND ESPECIALLY, my contacts.

THANKS FOR ANY HELP!!!

bakuryu

try to use the Inbox Recover tool initially and see if you can recover the data.
How to use the Inbox Repair Tools to recover e-mail messages in Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003, and Outlook 2007

The tool will try to recover the messages, however it does not guarantee it will work all the times.

You can also from time to time backup your pst files
How to manage .pst files in Outlook 2007, in Outlook 2003, and in Outlook 2002

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wangdong

Hi,kikkilu
You can try a popular Outlook recovery tool called Advanced Outlook Repair to repair your PST file. It is a powerful tool to recover messages, folders and other objects from corrupt or damaged Microsoft Outlook PST files.

And you can also download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe
Good luck!
Wangdong

Techtiger4

Don't worry you can recover contacts, etc. very easily.

First of all locate the .pst file into your computer, which has been damaged.

Second, search scanpst.exe tool using Windows search feature and then execute it to repair the damaged .pst file from which you have lost your data. After that import the file into your current working Outlook profile by using File > Import option.

In case, scanpst.exe doesn't repair the file then the only solution for you is to use any good PST recovery software like -

http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Microsoft-Outlook-Mail-Recovery.html