Repair Outlook PST File With Two Microsoft Utilities!

Microsoft’s Outlook is one of the most amazing email client application which is used worldwide for various purposes. Using this program you can manage and coordinate all your personal and professional work easily and in a better manner. This efficient application stores all the data saved in it in a special file known as PST file or Personal Storage Table folder. This is the file which is responsible for storing, managing and accessing all the Outlook data in a better manner. But this PST file is very prone to the corruption issues whenever user attempts to upgrade the Outlook version or try to access any data from it. Although these two causes are not the end of PST corruption issues as there are other cases as well due to which PST gets corrupt. So, whenever such things happen, you can use two Microsoft Utilities i.e. Inbox Repair Tool and Oversized PST & OST Crop Utility to resolve the issue.




Inbox Repair Tool




In order to fix corrupted PST file issue, you can use Outlook’s inbuilt utility i.e. Inbox Repair Tool. The location of this tool varies among the different versions of Outlook but the tool is named as ‘Scanpst.exe’. However this tool isn’t always able to repair the every corruption of PST file but is able to repair most of them. This tool works by repairing the PST file’s header and then deletes anything in the file which it fails to understand. So, if your PST file has corrupted while updating the application and is caused due to PST’s header corruption then PST file has no issues to resolve it. But if the data stored in the PST file is corrupt and then Inbox Repair Tool is applied to it then the tool is likely to destroy what is left of the file. So, it is always good to make the backup of the PST file before executing this efficient tool.




Oversized PST and OST Crop Tool




Another possible cause of the corruption is the PST file is its file size which is limited to 2GB only. So, whenever the PST file size increases exceeds this size limit the corruption of the file occurs instantly. Initially fixing this problem with Inbox repair Tool is not possible so users need to use the Oversized PST and OST Crop Utility first followed by Inbox Repair Tool. This tool works by deleting about 25 MB of data from the file to bring back the file back with specs. Because of the nature of this destructive tool use this tool as a last resort to repair and recover the data stored in the PST file.




So, without wasting any more time just try the above mentioned utilities to repair your corrupt or damaged PST file easily.