Best Recovery Tools to Repair Corrupt Outlook PST File

An Outlook is an email application which is a symbol of excellence in terms of technology. Its native file is PST or Personal Storage Table which stores all the mailbox files, contacts, email folders, and the rest of the personal data. Outlook PST files are divided into two formats-ANSI and Unicode. Up to MS Outlook 2002 or XP, PST files come under ANSI formatted PST files (with 2 GB file limitation) and beyond that versions comes under Unicode formatted PST files (with 20 GB file limitation).

By default the location of PST file is as follows: 

‘C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application 

Data\Microsoft\Outlook\’, where USER_NAME is your Windows logon name.

Instances causing inconvenience to Outlook users: 

The sad part of this emailing client is damage situation which occurs because of a number of critical situations like file size issue, virus attacks, Trojan infection, etc. During such a problem, user has to face query like how to repair corrupt PST file. You do not get any signal that PST file is damaged, but unexpected behavior personified by Outlook confirms that something is not right with Outlook. For Instance:

• Slow emailing operations
• Fail to open PST file easily
• Occurrence of error messages regularly
• Inaccessibility of data stored in PST files

1) Free Inbox Repair Tool-A Short-lived happiness: 

A surprise is waiting for you because after Outlook damage, this emailing client will automatically attempt to repair the corrupted PST files. When you start Windows, you will notice that Outlook is trying to repair the mailbox folders. Here, it is very important to know that Outlook may not automatically repair or recover PST file which prevents you in reaching the main Outlook window. Resultantly, you need to fix the problem with the Inbox Repair tool.

The disadvantages you must know about using Inbox Repair tool or Scanpst.exe facility:

1. This facility works only of your PST file is corrupted by Outlook or when the issue is occurred because of hard disk issues like when PST file leads to severe damage by third party add-in. In such circumstances, Inbox Repair tool has little chance to help you out.
2. The Inbox Repair tool also consumes large amount of time which sometimes affect your important tasks
3. This Microsoft’s facility is not effective to use in all the corruption based scenarios

2) PST Repair Program: For availing best results, you can take professional help. There are many utilities for repairing damaged PST files and one of them is QuickData Outlook PST Recovery Software. You can use this application to recover password protected PST file and also to recover Outlook deleted items instantly. It supports repairing PST files damaged due to any of the corruption based scenarios.