Scanpst utility: Best Way to Repair your Outlook PST Files

Microsoft Outlook is an important email client application that is extensively used for sending and receiving emails and managing other outlook related tasks including storing notes, journals, appointments and other data as PST files or personal storage table. The data stored in the outlook is important for the users and is quite safe. However in certain scenarios, the outlook users are unable to access the data stored in outlook inbox as it may undergo corruption. It may cause great problem to the users as it results in loss of data and disruption of smooth working of Outlook

Causes for the PST files corruption

 There may be several reasons behind PST file corruption. Some of the important ones are mentioned below as

• virus attack

• header corruption

• oversized PST files

• sudden loss of Power

In the event of PST corruption, Outlook users have the option to use inbuilt utility as Scanpst.exe or inbox repair tool. The utility is provided by Microsoft and is present with every outlook version. The inbuilt tool is really handy for fixing PST corruption. However there are certain limitations in which the tool fails to repair Outlook PST files. When there is corruption due to Severe virus infection or exceeding PST files of more than 2 GB, Scanpst.exe is unable to solve the corruption for the users.

In such scenarios, the outlook users are advised to use third party Scanpst utility to repair the damaged and corrupted PST files. It is best for overcoming corruption caused due to severe virus attack or oversized PST files. The utility has advanced algorithm to scan and repair PST files in any circumstances.