How to fix corrupted PST file?

Outlook is an advanced email program provided by Microsoft which can be used to manage Contacts, Meeting Requests, Tasks, Calendar, etc along with your emails. Most of the email users like this application because of its outstanding performance and attributes. The only problem with Outlook application is it uses a single .pst file to store all the data which can corrupt very easily.

While accessing Outlook sometimes you have encountered some error messages like “Outlook.pst could not be accessed” or “XCLN: Error Msg. Opening PST: The Folder Could Not Be Opened”.  In most of the cases these error occurs due to corruption of .pst file which deny your Outlook access and may also leads to data loss.

Of course like other problems there is a resolution for this also, you can fix corrupted PST file and recover the data stored in it using some PST repair tool but before that let us walk through a few reasons and scenarios that leads to .pst file corruption.

  • Abnormal termination of Outlook: Normally a user quits his Outlook by using exit option. But in some situations like power failure or system crash your computer may shut down which closes the Outlook forcefully without saving any data. At this point of time, if Outlook is performing any task using .pst file, then it may results in entering garbage data in to it. Since it is a sensible database file, if it encounters even a single error it leads to corruption.
  • Impact of third party applications: There are few applications which access all the files in your hard drive when they are executed, like antivirus. If you enable a system scan when your .pst file is having a huge amount of data, it slow down the Outlook operation which may leads to crash. If your Outlook crashes while it is performing some information related task with .pst file, this eventually leads to corruption of .pst file.

Anyhow, reason and error might be different but the result is similar. But you need not worry as I mentioned earlier you can fix corrupted .pst file using a competent inbox repair tool.

At first step you can use scanpst.exe, but it has some limitations, instead of repairing it may further corrupt your .pst file. If the corruption is more you can use a software application which can do the job better than scanpst.exe. They will not harm your original .pst file, instead of that they will create a new file by extracting data your corrupted .pst file. Make use of such tools and get the best results.

Remo Repair Outlook (PST) is one such utility which has a smart scanning algorithm with which it can be able to repair highly corrupted .pst file. It also repairs from password protected and highly encrypted files. This Outlook tool is safe to use as it only reads the original PST file and creates a new PST file.

You can download the trail version of Remo Repair Outlook (PST) for effective results and efficient recovery.