An Instant Microsoft Outlook PST Repair Solution

Microsoft Outlook excels in everything except when it comes to heavy data storage and adverse situations that hit it. If you have been using Outlook for a long time, you must have come across many thicks and thins. The application provides incredible features, sleek interface, flexible working, in addition to a great user experience, yet creates issues due to being vulnerable to corruption. At times, several conditions apply forces against Outlook data file and damage the entire application. Let us understand Outlook data file first with the next section.

Personal Storage Table, abbreviated as PST is personal folders file where Outlook stores all its data, including email messages, contacts, email attachments, journals, appointments, and everything else.  Under certain circumstances, the file goes corrupt and hence users fail to get access to the whole data stored in Outlook. Some major causes of PST file corruption are listed below:

The top three reasons are understandable, however, you may get stuck with oversizing, let us understand it. PST file has specific size limits in different Outlook versions and once the data goes beyond prescribed limit, the file gets corrupt. Therefore, it is always suggested to keep the file smaller.

As a result of corruption, you may face various error messages stating the cause of corruption and it becomes mandatory to repair the file as early as possible because it does not allow you to continue using Outlook. Loss of data is frightening and may take you to unexpected situations at times. In order to repair the corrupt PST file, Microsoft has integrated a utility with Outlook named Inbox Repair Tool, which is saved as Scanpst.exe on your system in Outlook folder. Below given lost describes the tasks facilitated by Inbox Repair Tool:

You can find the tool at the following locations in different versions of Outlook:

Outlook 2013

Program FilesMicrosoft Office 15rootoffice15

Outlook 2010

Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14

Program FilesMicrosoft Office(x86)Office14

Outlok 2007

:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12

:Program Files(x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12

Or below is another way to find the file and run it:

You should now have a repaired PST file. However, the tool does not give assurance and may fail to achieve its goal, particularly in severe corruption cases. Besides, the utility itself may go corrupt and consequently, the tool begins throwing errors. This is the worst situation as there is no solution you are left with. However, fortunately, it is not true; you can still recover corrupt PST file with the help of an external utility that will work faster and smarter than scanpst.exe.