outlook .pst file not recovered

I have run Recuva and it has founds old outlook .pst files to recover. Only Outlook 2002 SP3 is not able to open the recovered .pst file OR import it. The error message reads: "the .pst file is not a file for personal folders" (Dutch message: "de .pst file is geen bestand voor persoonlijke mappen")

What can I do?

The attached file is just an example of one of the recovered files. The file to be recovered is 40kB and this is not possible to attach.

I take it that it was your Outlook 2002 that created this recovered outlook.pst file?

From that error message you give, for whatever reason, it sounds like Outlook thinks that file is not a PST file.

If you are lucky, it may be just corrupted.

To verify, run the Microsoft supplied SCANPST.EXE file, it'll be in your Program Files folder (the exe location varies slightly based on your OS and Office versions). Do a Search if you can't manually locate it.

If it scans your PST file and reports it can't fix it, I'd guess the recovery hasn't gone at all well.