Repair Corrupt and Damaged Outlook PST File

Outlook stores emails, contacts, notes, to do list, journals, etc. in Personal Storage File (PST) on your computer's local hard disk drive. The PST file can be very important for computer professionals and home users who use Outlook to share information with colleagues, friends, and family members. If the PST file gets damaged then all of the email messages including contacts, attachments, images, notes, etc. cannot be accessed. There can be following reasons for the PST file damage:

Abrupt system shut down when Outlook is in use
Malicious virus contamination
Internal software error
Problem in storage media
PST file's 2GB size limitation
Improperly exiting Outlook

Whatever be the reason for PST file damage, you as an Outlook user always be in loss. After the PST file damage, Outlook stops accessing your emails, notes, attachments, etc. which can create a nightmare like situation for you. Here, the question is what should be the next step after the PST file damage. Will you create a new Outlook account to restart communication? If you create a new Outlook account, you cannot access emails from old account into new account that is you will loss all of your emails, which you never want. In that situation, the only solution to get emails back from damaged PST file is to repair the damaged PST file.

You can perform PST file repair using Outlook built-in Inbox repair tool, Scanpst.exe. The Scanpst.exe file can be accessed by following below given file path:
Drive: \Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\LocaleID\scanpst.exe
With Scanpst.exe, you can easily perform PST repair and recover emails, notes, etc. within minutes. However, it has been noticed that Scanpst.exe works best in case the PST file has been damaged due to 2GB size limitation. While in other cases, Scanpst.exe does not perform well. Therefore, you need to use another utility to retrieve data from damaged PST file.

There are so many third-party PST repair and recovery tools available in the market. You can pick anyone of them depending on your requirement. However, before you select a third-party PST repair tool, you should check its quality by executing the trial version. If you feel satisfied with the result provided by the trial version only then purchase the full version of the tool else verify another available tool.