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| Corrupt Outlook PST Repair |
Microsoft Outlook is very successful email client which helps us to share or store information with each other in a very user friendly way. Sometime using Outlook we frequently face the problem to access the data that is store in the Microsoft Outlook. As we have already share in our previous post that Microsoft Outlook store the data in PST file format. Error that we face frequently while Using Outlook is: “Errors have been detected in the File”
Such type of error messages indicates that PST file has been corrupted or damaged and we are unable to work on Outlook. It simply indicates user has no access to save data in PST file. After analyzing problem it may be possible user is facing error because of following issues:
Possible Reasons for Outlook PST Damage
- In appropriate working of Random Access Memory (RAM)
- Less memory space to store applications in the Outlook database,
- Frequent changes in the PST files can be another cause to corrupt it.
Mend Damaged PST file
A damaged or corrupt PST file will not work perfectly in case to overcome this error message what we usually do is we will reboot system. After rebooting what we will observe is error messages that still remains and display on the screen. All efforts are useless. One more disadvantage user will face while working with Outlook damages PST file is:
It is very difficult to access saved content or data from PST file until we recover that corrupt PST file.
Recover Damaged PST File:
We have to close running Outlook application before we start recovery of PST file using Outlook PST recovery tool. There are two ways to recover damage Outlook PST file.
• Free Method
• Automatic Method
Use Free Tool Scanpst.exe
Microsoft suggested a free tool to repair damage PST file. Name of free tool is Inbox Repair utility. This utility is associated with user profile as user creates his profile in Outlook automatically users will able to use Inbox Repair tool. We can find this tool under the following location
Location of Scanpst.exe:
Outlook 2013
64-bit Windows C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15
64-bit Outlook C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15
Click-to-Run C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15
Outlook 2010
64-bit Windows C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14
64-bit Outlook C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
Advantages of Using Outlook PST: Available to users at free of cost
Drawbacks of using Outlook PST:
• Scnapst.exe don’t let user repair heavily damage PST file
• Scnapst.exe don’t repair corruption occurs in header part
• Scnapst.exe don’t assure user of successful recovery of Outlook file
• Scanpst.exe don’t allow user to repair corrupt PST file whose size is more than 2GB
Moreover sometime scanpst.exe creates a truncated copy of the PST files due to over sized PST files.
Automatic Method:
To recover PST file we can select third party tools. Outlook PST recovery is a utility tool to recover the PST file which may get corrupt due to any reason. User can save recovered PST file at any location. Outlook PST Recovery Tool would repair the damaged PST file and you can then access your valuable Outlook database after fixing the problem of corrupted PST file. To know more about PST Repair tool use a professional Outlook PST Repair tool
