PST Recovery through Outlook repair tool

There might be situations when you may need to switch to a different version of Outlook or you may want to use a different computer. Also if you want to use your same old Outlook data then you can do this by importing the old Outlook data file(.pst) within new profile. But sometimes things do not happen so easily and while importing Outlook file you can face the situation of PST corruption. Better to explain in More Detail!!!

Suppose you want to create a new Outlook profile then create the backup of original .pst file. Identify the location of .pst file on your computer as per the operating system and Outlook version. (By default the location of .pst file is C:\Documents and Settings\user_id\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook). Now save this file on a safe location like on hard disk or any other removable or portable device like CD or pen drive. Also proper care should be given in taking the backup of .pst file and process should not be interrupted as it can cause the corruption of PST file.

Further after taking backup successfully during importing backup .pst file to the new Outlook profile it could be possible that PST file get damaged and could not get open. There are possibilities that you could lose your valuable Outlook data. The reasons for this corruption could be related to any software or hardware issues.

Solution for PST Recovery:

To handle the PST file corruption, use the Microsoft Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) which is an inbuilt utility in Outlook. Find its location and run the utility with your corrupted .pst file. It may show some errors and further ask to fix these errors. Take the backup of the .pst file before clicking Repair button. This utility may repair the file but sometimes it does not show the expected results due to its own limitations like it cannot repair .pst files which exceed 2 GB size. Also only header part of file can be repaired by this utility.

Due to limitation of Scanpst.exe and to handle the severe .pst file corruption it is required to use powerful tool for PST Recovery which can resolve all the corruption related issues. The repair tool should have the mechanism to repair the damaged pst file and to restore it in its original form. Also ability of software can be evaluated with much ease by checking the demo version, if provided.

Stellar Outlook PST Recovery tool V 4.5 efficiently repairs corrupted .pst file and recover all Outlook objects like emails, contacts, tasks, notes etc. It allows recovery from encrypted as well as password protected PST files and supports latest versions of Outlook like 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000.