outlook 2007 pst dissapeard

[joblack23]

Serious issue and hope someone can help. Some reason the workstation got locked (username and password were grayed out). I know the pst file was there before i rebooted, but I've noticed a .tmp file with the same name as the PST file. When the system came back up, the both files were gone. I am desperately trying to get the .pst back.
i've restore the system to a previous day (last friday) but no success.
i've used getdataback 4.0 but it doesn't find any deleted files of that type .tmp or .pst.

What else can i do?

thanks in advance

 

[cmeagan656]

Are you sure that the user profile that you're using is the original (C:\Documents and Settings\username if using XP)? If a user profile becomes corrupt a new profile is created which would explain why your .pst file disappeared and why GetDataBack doesn't find any deleted files.

Hope this helps.

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[joblack23]

Thanks cmeagan656 for your reply. My PCs are partitioned with c: OS and applications and d: as the storage location including users profile. The profile did not get corrupted. If that happened I would have gotten a clean profile. On desktop there are several files. These files would have been missing if a new profile was created.

I am still puzzled as to why this file is completely gone. I've scan the drive with several other software with very little success. This sucks.

I am considering data doctor but not sure if they can do any better.

 

[cmeagan656]

When you were searching for the pst file did set the search to search hidden files and folders?

Hope this helps.

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[joblack23]

absolutely. i've used windows search 4.0 as well which is sucks but in my situation pulled every possible combination (hidden or not) but not the file i was looking for.