[link|http://www.slipstick.com/problems/scanpst.htm|You mean this one] and and tools associated on that same page? The other two tools point to missing web pages, and the third link is to a recovery service that charges to recover the data. The utility found on the Office CD at [link|http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q272227&|DRIVELetter:\\PFILES\\COMMON\\SYSTEM\\MAPI\\1033\\95 named scanpst.exe] was run. Windows 98, Outlook 2000 SP2. All service packs have been installed. Same software versions as before the reformat, except that the file or hard drive may have been damaged before the format?

I tried importing to a blank PST, same error. The file that scanpst.exe makes is blank, the normans.bak is still full of data.

I am about to go and get my old DOS based util, hstrip, if a copy of it is still floating around on the Internet somewhere. Filter out all the Non-ASCII stuff and leave the ASCII text behind. Maybe I can copy and paste the remains into the new email program?

I want so much to kick the Outlook habit!