Recovering a corrupt .pst file. Anybody?

[deli_conker]

Okay. So I work with people that feel that they need to keep every email they send, receive and (sometimes) delete. I got this one guy whose .pst file is at 2Gb. About a year ago, he had it that large and we had a long talk about how this was a no-no, but alas, here we are again.

Anyways, I went about repairing it the same way I did last time.

• Use Microsoft's .pst/.ost cropping tool to trim file size down to it's upper limits as to not lose anything more than necessary.
• Use scanpst.exe (NT version) to repair the file. (Also did this before crop tool, just in case we could get lucky. We weren't lucky.)

I get an unknown error when trying to fix it.

Here is the output log...

Microsoft (R) Inbox Repair Tool
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1995-1996. All rights reserved.

**Beginning NDB recovery

  **Attempting to open database

  **Attempting to validate header

    !!bSentinel is invalid 00 (should be 80)

  **Attempting to validate AMap

  **Attempting to validate BBT

  **Attempting to validate NBT

  **Attempting to validate BBT refcounts

  **Attempting to validate header NID high-water marks

**Beginning PST/OST recovery

  **Attempting to recover all top-level objects

      !!HN (nid=21) bad signature (bSig=FF, bClientSig=93)
      !!Message store missing PR_PST_PASSWORD
      !!Message store missing or invalid PR_RECORD_KEY
      !!Message store missing PR_DISPLAY_NAME
      !!Message store missing PR_IPM_SUBTREE_ENTRYID
        !!HN (nid=8022) bad signature (bSig=FF, bClientSig=93)
        !!HN (nid=8062) bad signature (bSig=FF, bClientSig=93)
        !!HN (nid=80E2) bad signature (bSig=FF, bClientSig=93)
        !!HN (nid=8102) bad signature (bSig=FF, bClientSig=93)
        !!HN (nid=8922) bad signature (bSig=FF, bClientSig=93)

      !!HN (nid=62B) bad signature (bSig=FF, bClientSig=1C)
      !!TC (nid=62B) missing required column (66050003)
      !!TC (nid=62B) missing required column (001A001E)

      !!Receive folder table missing default message class

      !!HN (nid=61) bad signature (bSig=FF, bClientSig=93)
      !!HN (nid=61) bad ibHnpm (ibHnpm=23994, cbPage=4190)

Fatal Error: 80040900

Does anybody know of any tools that will allow me to salvage the file. Partial salvage is better than none...

 

[deli_conker]

Anybody at all?