I am using Outlook 2003 and everything was working fine until a few
days ago.

When starting up Outlook I am prompted to find my PST file or create a
new one.  When trying to start the existing one after browsing for it
but it errors out.  It will create a new PST file successfully but no
data since it is newly created.

I attempted the scanpst.exe tool as suggested by Outlook but after a
period of time it states that there was an error.  The scanpst.exe
tool shutsdown after the error is diplayed.

Is there anything I can do to restore the pst file?

I created a backup of the file and it is located on an external hard
drive when running the test.  Would this generate and error?

Anyone use the scanpst.exe tool?