How to repair OST file!

OST (Offline Folder File) is the file which is saved on your system hard drive and store offline files. This file is like a component of Microsoft exchange server. It has an .ost file extension. Outlook user can create it automatically when they set up Outlook or when they first make a folder available offline. All data of Microsoft exchange server store locally in OST file on your system hard drive. It contains your important emails, calendar items, contact addresses, draft etc. Whenever OST file get corrupted or inaccessible due to server crash, database corruption, accidentally account deletion etc then all data remain on system and they all are inaccessible. Now you need to repair OST file in order to make them accessible and to save all data from it.




There are lots of reasons for the corruption of OST file like software and hardware problem, oversize of OST file etc. In all such condition OST file get corrupted and when it corrupt then you will not able to access emails with Microsoft exchange server. To repair OST file, Microsoft Outlook provided the free repair program called Inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe).




This is a single executable file program which a Microsoft Outlook users can use to repair OST (.ost) and PST (.pst) file. This is well suitable to repair file and to save out all data stored in it. This is the ultimate Outlook OST repair tool. To continue with this work you first need to locate scanpst.exe file which is actually a hidden file and location of this file varies from the outlook version, different windows OS and language you prefer. Run this tool and locate corrupted OST file. It thoroughly scans file and detect error, correct it and then repair. You should first make backup of OST file which is corrupted before repair process so that you will get files from backup if any misshapen occur at the time of repair process.




But one thing which make you little disappointed that Inbox repair tool always not work to repair OST file. This means while you repair file it is not guaranteed that it will fix the issue of corruption in OST file due to some limitation like corruption position, if it is severely corrupted and another one is if corruption is due to the oversize problem of OST file then it won’t be able to repair OST file. when it falls to repair then one solution is drop that OST file and create another one but to save data and to make it accessible you need to choose another solution.




At this time you can take help from the third party Inbox repair tool which is professional PST & OST repair tool. Irrespective of any kind of corruption issue in OST and PST file it can repair and fix it. This is simple, robust, easy to use tool which include intuitive graphical user interface. It is so easy to use that even a non technical person can use to repair corrupted file and fix this issue. It can repair password protected .ost file. Support repair of .ost file which is created by Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003, 2007. This OST repair tool 2007 version of outlook supported. When OST file get repaired full then you can convert OST to PST to recover data stored in it.