Outlook PST Repair

I have a PST file which Outlook can not read - it is giving the error Header information cannot be loaded, plase contact administrator.

I have tried Microsoft's scanpst and PST Size Reducer applications, but neither was able to fix this error. Is there a (preferably free) PST repair/splitter application that might work?

Solution 1:

The Microsoft PST reducing tool is crude, but it works. It chops off random stuff from your PST just to get it under the 2GB limit, so you have no idea what you are losing. Anyway, once that was done, did you run Scanpst against the newly reduced file? That is a requirement of the tool.