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How to repair your corrupted PST files after Outlook gives errors?

PST files are used to store Microsoft Outlook email and your other data like contacts, calendar, tasks etc. If Outlook fails to open or gives error messages when you try to access your mail, chances are that your PST file is corrupted. Microsoft provides a built in utility called Inbox repair tool or Scanpst.exe, which can deal with some of these corruption issues. Unfortunately, Scanpst.exe is not a very powerful tool and often fails to fix corrupt PST files and the major drawbacks of this tool are as follows:

• If you accidentally deleted emails and you want to undelete them, then Scanpst.exe tool does not help you to recover those deleted emails
• It is unable to repair large size PST files
• Scanpst.exe tool cannot repair your PST files if there is severe corruption

Whenever your PST file gets corrupted, you usually use Scanpst.exe tool to repair the PST file, but sometimes even when you use it, you may get an error message like ”Fatal Error 80040900” and the corrupted PST file remains same. This kind of error generally occurs when your PST file is oversized i.e. when its size is more than 2GB

Also sometimes when you use scanpst.exe, you may receive an error such as “An error has occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file”, which is a severe problem because the PST file scan was interrupted and your corrupt PST file is still the same and you get errors in PST or if you want to repair PST file not responding use Inbox Repair Tool.

In all the above situations only a powerful third party utility like repair corrupt PST file can be used because it uses a powerful scanning algorithm to repair the PST file, for more read here.

You can follow the following precautions in order to avoid deletion of data in PST files

• Always compress your PST file so that it does not exceed 2GB or archive your PST files frequently so that your data could be in an organized manner.
• Avoid sharing the PST files, which might cause corruption of PST file which leads to data loss.
• Use good updated anti virus to avoid virus attack.
• Keep a copy of all important emails on a safe location and delete them from PST files.

After following all precautions also, your PST file could get corrupted unexpectedly. In such condition, you must utilize the best Outlook Repair software to restore all your PST files. Inbox Repair Tool is the award winning utility that has been highly rated and reviewed by industry experts. It is one of the best utility that can safely repair PST file on Outlook 2007 and recovers your lost or deleted folders, emails, calendars, contacts etc.

Steps recover Outlook data by using Microsoft Outlook PST repair utilty are as follows:

Step 1: Download the free trial version of the software. After installing it on your PC, a short cut icon appears on your desktop and if you double click on the icon then a main window appears as shown in below Figure 1. You have to select any one from the three options available.

Figure 1: Main Screen

Step 2: Once you select any one option, the next screen will be displayed as shown in Figure 2. You can either select "Normal Scan" or "Smart Scan" and click on "Repair". Then the software will fix corrupted PST file by scanning the selected PST file.

Figure 2: Select Scan Option

Step 3: When the software completes the repair process you will be able to view the recovered data summary as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: View Recovered Outlook Data