How to Recover Corrupt PST file data of Microsoft Outlook?

Nowadays email has become a vital part of an individual and an organization. It entitles users to send or receive messages by electronic medium. Microsoft Outlook is a well-suited brand name that gives 100% best and effective software applications. For mailing purpose it has designed Outlook, an admired email application that is available as a part of Microsoft Office suite or a separate application. MS Outlook is also called as a personal information manager and it is commonly used as an email application. Other than this, it comprises some advance and skillful features such as: emailing, messaging, sticky notes, calendar, task manager, contact manager, journal and web browsing etc.

Microsoft Outlook uses an Outlook data file to store all mailbox items and emails into safe location, known as PST (Personal Storage Table). There are two different types of PST files: ANSI and Unicode PST file. ANSl file is a default file format of MS Outlook 2002 and previous versions. ANSI file store data upto 2 GB and can only opened in older versions of Microsoft Outlook. Unicode PST file is a default file format of MS Outlook 2003 and all its later or upcoming versions. Unicode file can be easily save our data up to 20 GB and in Outlook 2010 it can save data up to 50 GB.

Sometimes it seems when we save lot of information in Outlook .PST files, it get oversized and corruption. To overcome such corruption problem Microsoft introduce an inbuilt utility name as scanpst.exe. It helps to diagnosis all error messages and issues in your PST file. Inbox repair tool is the part of MS office and it installed with MS Outlook.

How Inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe) works?

Inbox Repair Tool first checks the corrupt or damage PST file by performing the scanning process, After founding the corrupt PST file it try to fix it before that suggest you to create a backup of file. You must create advance backup of PST files to keeps your data away from corruption related issues.

This program store in your computer at this location- C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/OFFICE12 or C:/Program Files/Common Files/System/MSMAPI/1033

Steps to Recover Corrupt PST files of Outlook through Scanpst.exe

To repair corrupt PST file with the help of Scanpst.exe, first go to the location according to MS Outlook version. Once Scanpst.exe file will be found, you should follow the given steps:

Step1:

• Go to the location where Scanpst.exe file is saved.
• Double click on Scanpst.exe
• Following window- Microsoft Outlook Inbox repair tool will popup

Step 2: Click on Browse button to select corrupt PST file from System Directory and click on "Open" button.

Step 3: Now click on "Start" button to proceed scanning.

Step 4: Scanpst.exe utility will start scanning the corrupt PST files, the time period of scanning process depend on the size of PST file.

Step 5: The file get completely scanned. All the error messages and issues will be shown here, if found.

To create Backup of PST files, tick this option- "Make backup of scanned file before repairing".

Step 6: Once the PST file will be repaired completely then this message will take place.

Note: Most probably scanpst.exe utility works perfectly with corrupt PST file, but in some cases when the corruption level occurs at the high level scanpst.exe fails. At that time first question come in mind >> What to do if Scanpst Does not Work