
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:
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 the inbox repair tool 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 sometimes Inbox Repair tool does not recognize your PST file
In all the above situations only a powerful third party repair tool can help you fix your corrupted PST files because repair tool uses a powerful scanning algorithm to repair the PST file.
You can follow the following precautions in order to avoid deletion of data in 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. Remo Repair Outlook (PST) is the award winning utility that has been highly rated and reviewed by industry experts. It is one of the best inbox repair tool for outlook 2007 that safely repairs your corrupted PST files and recovers your lost or deleted folders, emails, calendars, contacts etc.
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