Microsoft Outlook data is stored by creating the PST files. Outlook attribute such as E-mail Messages, Calendar Items, Contacts, Meeting Requests, RSS Feeds, Tasks, Appointments, Journals, and Notes are stored in a single Personal Storage Table (PST) file. However, in some disastrous situations, PST file may get corrupt due to various reasons. When this happens, you may get some error messages while accessing MS Outlook and this could lead to trouble. In this instance, you can make use of third party corrupted PST file repair tool in order to access the MS Outlook attributes. Let us briefly discuss how PST file gets corrupt and how to troubleshoot Outlook by performing corrupted Outlook PST file repair.
Many of us depend heavily on Microsoft Outlook to store all of our personal information. Microsoft Outlook attributes are stored in a single file usually named as PST file. Microsoft Outlook PST files have the *.pst file format and it is stored in computer’s hard drive. The PST file may get corrupt due to various situations that include corruption of PST file header, encountering of errors during PST file compaction, virus attack, antivirus scanning, resulting in incompatibility while upgrading the Outlook, usage of PST file size exceeds to its maximum size limit, sharing PST file across the network, usage over network, and unexpected system shutdown etc. Let us briefly explain few important case scenarios in which corruption of PST file can occur.
- Corruption of PST file header: The PST header file corruption may take place due to improper or incomplete version upgrade of Microsoft Outlook. Suppose you are upgrading the Microsoft Outlook from lower version to higher version and you left the process incomplete. This may cause due to some errors in system or due to improper shutdown of the system. This kind of an instance may lead to corruption of PST file header on the Microsoft Outlook. Other causes for PST header file corruption include operating system malfunction, application malfunction, and malwares such as spyware, Trojan horse, and virus attack on to the pc etc.
- Error in PST file compaction: When the oversized PST file problem occurs, you need to squeeze the PST file in order to get free space. When you delete the unwanted items from each folder, the deleted items will move to Deleted Items folder. However, by doing this you cannot reduce the PST file size. In order to erase the Deleted Items folder contents permanently you need to do PST file compaction. However, encountering of an unknown error during compaction of PST file may lead to corruption of PST file. This kind of an instance may lead to loss of Microsoft Outlook attributes.
When Outlook PST file become corrupt, the Microsoft Outlook refuses to load the corrupted PST file. In order to repair corrupted PST file, you can use Remo Repair Outlook (PST) tool. This Outlook PST Repair tool scans all of your corrupted .pst files, then extracts Outlook attributes from it and restores them into new .pst file. This tool creates a new .pst file ensuring that it will not affect the existing .pst file. You can download the demo version of this tool; demo version provides you to preview the repaired items through Outlook style browser view.