After changing your system, when you upgrade from MS Office Outlook 2003 to MS Office Outlook 2007 and copy or import Archive.pst file to Office Outlook 2007, your PST file may become inaccessible. In such situations, you can not use your precious data stored in the PST file. Such behavior of Microsoft Outlook results as critical data loss and you need to opt for PST Repair solutions to resolve the issue.
After copying the Archive.pst file to “C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook” folder from the old system to the new one, when you attempt to open Microsoft Office Outlook, you might encounter the below error message:
“The File C:\Documents and Settings\\My Documents\Archive.pst cannot be found.”
In the error message, when you click OK, the “Find/Open” window opens up. Then, you get the option to browse for the location of PST file and click OK. When you do that, the following error message gets displayed:
“C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Archive.pst cannot be opened, and you have to Cancel out to start using Outlook.”
This problem can make your PST file inaccessible and cause serious data loss situations. At this point of time, you need to find out the cause of the problem and carry out efficient repair to resolve the issue and reclaim your lost data.
Root of this issue
There may be several possible reasons behind such Microsoft Outlook behavior. Some of them are as follows:
Incomplete archiving of PST file
PST file corruption
File header corruption
The file header corruption and incomplete archiving may damage the PST file and cause CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) errors.
You need to repair and restore the damaged PST file by using most powerful repair and restoration solutions. The PST Repair requires in-depth scanning of the PST file. It can be effectively performed using third party applications known as PST Repair Software.
These are highly automated tools that use powerful and efficient scanning procedures to thoroughly scan the entire PST file and extract all lost data from it. These software can recover all the PST objects including emails, contacts, notes, tasks, calendar, journal and other personal folders.
PST Recovery Software are equipped with interactive and simple graphical user interface and thus do not demand sound and prior technical skills to achieve at absolute and systematic recovery. With read-only and non-destructive design, these software always perform safe and original recovery.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is the most advanced and powerful application to Repair PST files. It supports Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT4 (SP6).
