How to Repire PST Files in Outlook with Outlook PST Repair Tools?

What Is a PST File and How Does It Get Corrupted?

PST Files or Personal Folder Files are a place where Microsoft Outlook stores your Valuable information such as Mailbox Files, emails, contacts and any other personal data related to Outlook. Up to Microsoft Outlook 2002 (XP), PST files are formatted according to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) format, which limits the file size to 2Gb. Starting with Microsoft Outlook 2003, PST files are using the UNICODE format which has a limit that is more than 20 GB. Now if this becomes corrupt or is accidentally deleted then there can be serious repercussions for people who rely on Microsoft Outlook to conduct their daily activities.

The main reasons for the PST File to get corrupted are:

1. Corruption in .pst file size due to compact operation
2. Improper shutdown of the system before exiting the Outlook application
3. PST files used over the network
4. PST file corrupted due to 2 GB file size limit

Step by Step Instruction - How to Repire PST Files in Outlook?

Step1. Download and install Outlook Repair , then start it.

Before repairing damaged or corrupt PST file with Outlook Repair, please close Microsoft Outlook and any other applications that may modify the PST file.

Step2. Select the damaged or corrupt Outlook PST file to be repaired:

You can input the PST file name directly or click button to browse and select the file. You may also click button to find the PST file to be repaired on the local computer.

Step3. If you know the Outlook version of the source PST file to be repaired, then you can specify it in the combo box

beside the source file edit box, possible formats are Outlook 97-2002 and Outlook 2003/2007. If you leave the format as "Auto Determined", then Advanced Outlook Repair will scan the source PST file to determine its format automatically. However, this will take additional time.

Step4. By default, Advanced Outlook Repair will save the recovered data into a new file named xxxx_fixed.pst, where xxxx is the name of the source PST file. For example, for source PST file Outlook.pst, the default fixed file will be Outlook_fixed.pst. If you want to use another name, then please select or set it accordingly:

You can input the fixed file name directly or click button to browse and select the fixed file.

Step5. You can select the format of the fixed PST file by in the combo box beside the fixed file edit box , possible formats are Outlook 97-2002 and Outlook 2003/2007. If you leave the format as "Auto Determined", then Advanced Outlook Repair will generate the fixed PST file compatible with the Outlook installed on the local computer.

Step6. Click button, Advanced Outlook Repair will start scanning and repairing the source PST file. Progress bar will indicate the repair progress.

After the repair process, if the source PST file can be repaired successfully, you will see a messagebox like this:

Step7. Now you can open the fixed PST file with Microsoft Outlook. The whole folder hierarchy will be reconstructed in the fixed PST file and the objects are recovered and put to their original folders. For the lost & found objects, they will be put in Recovered_Groupxxx folders.

The demo version will display the following messagebox to show the success of the recovery:

In the fixed PST file, the contents of the messages and attachments will be replaced with a demo information.

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