[johnnyd529]

I had burned a PST file from Outlook 2003 using roxio Ez Creator 5 Platinum and noe csn not Export / Import back to Outlook. When I tried to save it to my hard drive from the CD it says....Can not copy back up: parameter is incorrect. I have important dats on the CD and would like to know if there is a way to retrive it? I have treid "Bad Copy" software and it doesn't work. :-(

[OBP]

Can Ez Creator 5 do anything with it?
have you tried asking Outlook to look at it or import from it?

[johnnyd529]

Hi OBP yes I treid using EZ Creator platinum 5 and nothing. I also treid to import it back to "Outlook 2003" which I use and still nothing. I can not even copy the CD to my hard drive. When I try it says.....cannot copy backup: incorrect parameters.

[OBP]

Can you "open" the .pst file with wordpad?
If you can you could do a save as to drive C:

[johnnyd529]

Hi, I did at one point open it in word pad, but it is all in code or encrypted. I thought there might be a prgram to decode it. :-( I also ran EZ Direct CD, it said it might be able to fix the CD but no go.

[OBP]

If you can open it with wordpad then try and do a "save as" to drive c:

[WhitPhil]

What OS are you running?
How large is the file you are trying to copy.
How are you copying it? Explorer via drag/drop? Copy/paste?

The reason you are seeing the "encrypted" stuff under Word is because you are looking at binary data, when Wordpad expects it to be "printable".

I'm also not sure if the Save As trick will work, since Wordpad "may" change the recordsizes and end up corrupting the data. But, it's worth a shot. Enusre that in the Save As you select "all files" otherwise it will get saved as a DOC or TXT file.

[johnnyd529]

Hi WhitPhil,
I am running Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 Suite. The file size is 266 KB I selected all and then saved as a Doc file in my documents.

[WhitPhil]

Thanks.
But, what files did you do a Select All on?

You indicated you were having trouble with a PST file. I presume you are you still getting the error?

If so, how are you trying to move it to the hard drive?

Try both Copy/Paste and drag/drop.