Outlook PST files can be damaged due to number of reasons including virus attack, hardware failure, software malfunction and improper system shutdown. In these cases, the PST files become inaccessible and can lead to the catastrophic circumstances of data loss.
When the PST files are damaged, MS Outlook will try to repair them automatically. When you start the Outlook, you will see a message window showing that outlook is attempting to repair your mailbox folders. But it doesn’t work in all situations of data loss. In some situations, Outlook may fail to repair these files automatically and you need to repair them using special repair utilities.
In case of PST or OST file corruption, there is a special mailbox repair utility that you can use is called “Inbox Repair Tool”. Inbox Repair Tool or Scanpst.exe is designed to search and repair the corrupted or damaged outlook PST files. When the outlook need inbox repair tool, it will display an error message “"Errors have been detected in the file 'file path'. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool."
Inbox Repair Tool works in most of the cases of PST corruption but it is not necessary that it will work in your case also. This tool can repair PST files only if it was damaged by Outlook itself. If the file is damaged because of any third party application or plug-in, it won’t be able to retrieve it. It works by repairing the header of PST file and then removing anything in the file that it does not understand. If the data in the file is corrupt, the Inbox Repair Tool will likely destroy what’s left of the file.
If any of these situations occur, the inbox repair tool can cause further damaged to the PST files and sometimes can lead to permanent data loss. In these situations, where Inbox Repair Tool fails to repair the corrupted PST files, you need for third party application that can repair the corrupted Outlook PST files. These software are known as Outlook PST repair software.
Outlook PST Repair are specially designed, third party repair pst software that can help you in repairing and restoring your corrupted outlook PST files. These software scan all personal folders of outlook and locate the corrupted PST files and restore them in their original format. Along with the mails, these software are also capable to repair other components of Outlook including notes, tasks, schedule, calendar, contacts and journal.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is an easy to use and powerful data recovery software. This software provides a simple user interface so that novice users can also use it very easily. This Outlook repair and recovery software scans the damaged .pst file and extracts and restores information in a new usable .pst file, enabling pst recovery. Demo version of the software works in same way as the full version. The only difference that, in demo, you can’t save the recovered files. In demo version of Outlook PST repair software, you can preview 5 e-mails, 20% of contacts and calendar entries from which you can evaluated the efficiency & recovery capability of our software.