Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1 provides assorted fault fixes and features that earmark you to compound the reliability and action of Office applications including of Microsoft Office Outlook. But after you establish SR-1, you strength notice individual issues patch using Microsoft Outlook. You strength change to move Outlook and obtain an nonachievement message. It could become if individualized folder (.pst file) that Outlook uses to accumulation every its accumulation is corrupted. This module order you to change from the most past .pst enter patronage available. At times, you don’t hit some legal enter patronage available. Such situations require that you ingest PST Recovery applications to bushel and change dilapidated PST file.
As an instance, when you essay to move Microsoft Outlook 2000, you strength change to do so and connexion the beneath nonachievement communication on screen:
“DDE computer window: outlook.exe-no disk. There is no round in the drive.”
As an added symptom, you strength encounter that every the telecommunicate messages that you had before instalment Microsoft Office 2000 Service Release 1 are absent from your account.
Cause
You strength undergo the above symptoms if some of the beneath conditions exists:
Microsoft Outlook uses some index files to accumulation book information. Offitems.log is the enter that contains aggregation most files that you created, opened, ransomed or winking patch Outlook was not running. Outitems.log is answerable for retentive aggregation most Outlook items, much as telecommunicate message, tasks, appointments, notes and others. These star enter are extremely essential for Outlook semiautomatic journaling feature. The above nonachievement strength termination if these (Offitems.log and Outitems.log) book index files are damaged.
Windows includes a enter titled Msvcrt.dll that is answerable for providing some base services to Visual C++ compiled applications, same Microsoft Office Outlook. The services provided are module allocation, scrutiny section etc. Outlook strength stimulate the above nonachievement if Msvcrt.dll enter is dilapidated or exists in inaccurate version.
Outlook Personal Folder (.pst file) is damaged. PST is the azygos enter storing every telecommunicate messages, notes, tasks, appointments, journals and another Outlook items. It strength intend corrupt cod to unheralded shutdown, enter filler regulating (in Outlook 97-2002), covering errors and another kindred causes.
PST is settled on a extractable media, which is not acquirable now.
Solution
To mend the ‘DDE Error’, you crapper ingest these methods:
Rename the dilapidated Outlook book index files. The incoming instance when you module move Outlook, it module create these files. To do so, see for Outitems.log and Offitems.log files and rename them to Outitems.old and Offitems.old correspondingly. Restart Outlook after you action this task.
Verify the edition of Msvcrt.dll file. If you encounter the enter in inaccurate version, you should change the enter from a fit system.
Check if the media, on which the PST enter is located, is adjoining to the system. If this is not so, you should essay to admittance the enter after conjunctive the media to the system.
You are advisable to establish the stylish Windows Service Pack available.
Perform PST Repair for the dilapidated individualized folder. To do so, you should separate Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) to mend the immorality issues. You requirement to post the agency and take the enter path, which module bushel the dilapidated file. However, you crapper essay to workaround the enter alteration issues by creating a newborn PST enter and commercialism every the folders and subfolders from the strained PST file. Before doing so, it is advisable that you patronage the .pst file. After this, you crapper separate outlook.exe /cleanpst and unstoppered Outlook that module wage you an choice to create a newborn .pst file. You crapper then ingest Import and Export choice of File schedule to goods every Outlook accumulation from the dilapidated PST file. If this doesn’t support and also Inbox Repair Tool cannot bushel the dilapidated file, you should ingest PST Recovery applications.
PST Recovery tools ingest coercive scanning algorithms to construe and bushel a dilapidated PST file. Such utilities wage mutual individual interface, definitive user-friendly features and broad PST Recovery results.
Stellar constellation Outlook PST Repair is an modern and the most coercive bushel creation for dilapidated PST file. The agency supports innocuous recover PST for files created with Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is fully-competent and read-only covering that repairs and restores dilapidated .pst enter in every enter immorality scenarios. The code is harmonious with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT. Using the software, you crapper also better a forfeited PST countersign and separate a super PST enter into individual small PST files.
Originally posted 2009-11-15 00:50:53.
