What to do when Inbox repair tool fails or scanpst.exe is not responding
Whenever MS Outlook users encounter with issue of corruption in PST file they try to fix this problem with the tool comes with MS outlook i.e-Inbox repair tool scanpst.exe. Irrespective of any reason of corruption in PST file. Tool tries to repair PST file and Objects stored in it. But sometime Inbox repair tool fails to repair corrupted PST file followed with an error message –"An error has occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file." You got this error when you try to scan corrupted PST file and scan stooped in mid. Your problem is not fixed yet.
Inbox repair tool, scans corrupted PST file, detects error and correct them and it helps to save valuable data by recovering them. “Internal errors were found in this file. They must be repaired for this file to work correctly.” is another error which you get when you try to scan corrupted PST file. It is really very annoying when you run scanpst.exe to repair and after some time it stop responding during repair process.
You must have faced situation when Inbox repair tool error has occurred and you are not able to repair corrupted PST file and worried about loss of valuable PST data. Most of the user when they are in the repairing phases 4 of 8 they got Inbox repair tool fatal error 80040900. After these errors Inbox repair tool crashes and your PST file become unaffected. Whenever you face the situation when you fine Inbox repair tool not responding then you have to find out some other solution.
Reasons when Inbox repair tool fails---
- If you are using Outlook 97-2002 and your PST file get corrupted due to the size more than 2GB. Scanpst.exe will not work when PST file size is more than 2GB.
- PST file is severely damaged then Inbox repair tool not able to fix the problem.
Solution
Since PST file is oversized so that you can use PST crop tool to truncate the file under 2 GB and then run Scanpst.exe to repair that PST file. But with this method some of your email messages find missing from the resultant copy. So it is recommended to make backup of PST file.
One of the easiest and safe solutions is to use third party inbox repair tool. Third party inbox repair tool is well efficient to repair corrupted PST file irrespective of any reasons. It is designed with powerful algorithm which repair corrupted PST file. It is specialized tool which is enriched with rich graphical interface and many other options. Now you can save your valuable PST objects stored in PST file.
