How to view PST file?

Your personal mailbox stored in the PST file may become inaccessible and you find it difficult to open PST file. PST file is the storage place of email messages, calendar events and contact information. It is generally stored locally on user's computer hard drive. Without taking up room on your inbox it store emails.




With the rapid use of outlook application and virus attack (email is the soft carrier of virus and affects other stored emails also) there are chances of corruption in PST file and it affects it totally by making PST file inaccessible. After being corrupted, whenever try to access or open PST file, user encounters with an error message and not able to open file and stored items in it like emails, contacts, calendar, journal etc. At this point possibilities are losing items stored in it which are really very important for any user.




Now the question arise that –How to open PST file?




To make PST file accessible once again and to open PST file, user need to fix the corruption issue. This means he needs to repair corrupted PST file. For this using official tool is good one. Inbox repair tool scanpst.exe is the official tool which is used to repair corrupted PST file. It installed on system with the installation of Windows or outlook. First select the corrupted PST file and then start the repair process. Tool detects the errors in it by scanning corrupted file and then starts the repair process. Before start of repair process make a backup of file so that if any misshapen occurs then you can restore it from the backup.




Depending upon the condition like PST file size more than 2GB or severe corruption in PST file, inbox repair tool fails to repair file and not handle the corruption issue. Now you have the same unaffected file. Now here to view PST file you need another solution called third party inbox repair tool which is designed with the more advanced algorithm which can handle the corruption issue in PST file in any condition.




After using this tool for the repair process, user can easily repair corrupted PST file and able to open PST file after fixing the corruption issue. This is like a PST viewer which lets you to view your PST file when it gets corrupted or damaged.