Ward off Outlook corruption with PST repair tool
Posted by admin | Under How to Friday Dec 30, 2011Nowadays, number of people using Outlook is gradually increasing but, very few of us know about the file system and storage of MS Outlook. Most people never bother to know about PST files until they face problems with accessing their emails in Outlook. Outlook uses Personal Storage Table or PST for storing all the email messages and other data given by the users. The PST file contains all your important data in the form of emails, your address book contacts, events on your calendar, personal folders and others.
The corruption in PST files causes inaccessibility in the stored data of Outlook which further leads to crucial data loss. All important email messaging system get halted affecting the whole communication. Several factors are responsible for corruption in PST file. Some of them are listed below:
- Your computer suddenly loses power
- Your computer gets shut down improperly
- A bug in outlook causes it to crash
- An outlook upgrade hangs up
- An operating system patch fails to install correctly
- A bug in some other application corrupts the file
- Outlook was backed up to faulty backup media
Microsoft offers an inbuilt repair Outlook PST tool in order to resolve the corruption issues and retrieve the data. This default tool is known as Inbox Repair Tool or Scanpst.exe tool which repairs corrupted PST files and recovers the data. But this tool becomes successful only when the corruption issue is minor. For bigger cases of corruption, you have to get into some commercial tools available in the market.
Repair Outlook PST gives a professional approach of recovering deleted emails, contacts, calendar items, notes and email attachments with minimal time and effort. This is a feature rich tool that is capable of recovering password protected PST files as well as the file which have crossed 2GB size limitation.
