What to do when scanpst exe does not work or scanpst exe not found?

Microsoft Outlook is most used personal management tool and thus it easily prone to be corrupted. Whenever Outlook PST file gets corrupted, you find unable to access that PST file and mostly chances of data loss. There are many reasons for the corruption in PST file.




One of the easiest solutions which come with Outlook to repair corrupt PST file and to make it accessible once is using Scanpst.exe. This is the one executable program which comes with outlook. It execute Inbox repair tool. This tool is most used to repair corrupt PST file. But most of the user when try to run Scanpst.exe encounter with the error message—“ Scanpst exe does not work” and in the middle of the repair process it fails and user not overcome form the problem of corruption in PST file. This is not only one situation when scanpst exe does not complete your task. Even some user not able to find the location of Scanpst exe file and not able to run that to repair corrupt PST file. When he tries to find he got message-“Scanpst exe not found”.




Default location of scanpst exe is--- “C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\". Search here, make sure that you have enable the option to view hidden file because scanpst exe inbox repair tool is hidden file.




Sometimes scanpst start process and at the step 6 when it reaches 99% come with an error message that—“ An error has occurred which caused the scan to stop. No changes have been made to the scanned file.” This is really an annoying situation for any outlook users, when after making such effort when scanpst.exe does not work.




There are some reasons which are responsible for the situation when Scanpst exe doesn t work. If your PST file gets corrupted due to oversize this means PST files get size of 2GB or PST file get severely corrupted. Either of the reason make scanpst exe does not work.




Solution:




Scanpst exe inbox repair tool correct error in header and repair corrupt pst file but if corruption in data then it won't able to fix problem or delete data. If corruption is due to PST 2GB problem then use PST and OST crop tool which is included by outlook. It reduces the size of corrupt PST file by deleting some PST object and then after you can use Scanpst exe to repair corrupt PST file. But it has only one problem that is you will not be able to manage data which you lost.




If even after trying this solution, Scanpst exe doesn't work then you can use third party scanpst exe. It is well efficient to repair corrupt PST file, corrupted due to any reasons or any condition. It maintains data integrity means you will get exactly same PST objects which were before corruption without any alteration of file. You can also use this tool when scanpst exe not found. Download Scanpst exe Inbox Repair tool to fix corruption issue.