Being a regular user of Outlook you might know about .pst file, which is used by MS Outlook to store all its data related to your account on local hard drive. Outlook uses a single .pst file for each Outlook account. If you use Outlook from long time, you would have lot of your personal and professional information stored in your profile i.e. in .pst file.
One day when you try to access your Outlook it may pop up an error instead of opening normally. This could be a result of .pst file corruption which hinders the functioning of Outlook and may leads loss of Outlook data.At this point of time don’t panic, don’t think that your data is lost forever. As there you can fix corrupted PST file using some Outlook recovery tool, but before that it is good to know the reasons for .pst file corruption. There are various reasons for the missing Outlook data, which is due to the corruption of the PST file, here are few reasons that explains the corruption of the PST file like:
- Corruption caused by third party application: While scanning your hard drive with an anti virus program, if your .pst file is accumulated with more number of emails, it slow down the operation, which may leads to .pst file corruption.
- Abnormal termination of Outlook: At any point of time if you come across any power failure or system crash while accessing your .pst file, Outlook will terminate abnormally without saving any data, which may leads to .pst file corruption.
- Over sized PST file: The .pst files have a maximum limit on the files depending on the Outlook version. If the size of the PST file exceeds this pre defined limit, the PST file may get corrupt. This is the most frequently seen scenario with results in corruption of the PST file and Outlook data loss.
You can use PST repair tool to fix the corruption in Outlook PST. First I suggest you to use integrated tool which comes with Outlook i.e. scanpst.exe. However in certain cases the .pst file is highly corrupted, scanpst.exe will fail to repair it. In such circumstances make use of some third party tool. They will help you to repair your .pst file even if it highly corrupted. Scanpst repair tool is incorporated with a capable scanning algorithm, which help to identify the data and repair even a severely completely PST file.
The best tool that can be used to repair a highly damaged PST file is Remo Repair Outlook (PST). The software creates a new .pst file by extracting data from original PST file, this prevents over writing the original .pst file and does not corrupts it further. With the help of the tool you can also repair the password protected, encrypted .pst files and recover the data from them.
Choose a well-recommended software, as a wrong one may further corrupt your .pst file. Run the demo version on a back up file to evaluate the working of the software. If repaired results satisfy your expectations, you can purchase the software.