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A friend recently asked me to help with a problem with importing a outlook 2003 pst file to his new PC with Vista and Outlook 2007.
He kept getting “File access is denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file Outlook.pst.”

What you need to do is set full control file security rights to current user explicitly. Group membership (for example: local admins) is not enough.
If you do not do this outlook and scanpst.exe sees the file as read only (will not show as read only in file properties).

Outlook then prompted that the file was corrupt.
Used scanpst.exe (an util bundled with office) from office folder to try to repair file.

Scanpst.exe took about 30+ minutes to run, the file was then ok.

Hope this info is helpful, let me now :)