Microsoft Outlook is an email client which is widely used to communicate through emails. Microsoft Outlook is mostly used in organizations where they configure and synchronize Outlook with there server to communicate through emails. Microsoft has developed and released many versions of Outlook they are Microsoft Outlook 1997, 2000, 2003, 2007 and MS Outlook 2010. Of theses versions developed Outlook 2007 is the extremely used due to features of simplicity provided by Microsoft. Outlook uses PST file to store its components such as mails, calendar, contacts, tasks, journals etc. PST file is stored on the computer where Outlook is installed.
There are chances of PST file on Microsoft to get corrupted due to number of reasons. When PST file of Outlook 2007 get corrupted Outlook does not open and throws up an error message as “Outlook.pst cannot be accessed – 0×80040116”. In such cases users are advised to repair the Outlook using inbox repair tool which repair Outlook 2007 PST file. Initially users are suggested to use default inbox repair tool provided by Microsoft called Scanpst.exe. This tool is freely distributed by Microsoft and can be used to repair small corruptions on PST file. When there is severe corruption to PST file, this tool fails to repair.
There are many reasons for corruption of Outlook 2007 PST file. Some of them are discussed below
- Corruption of PST due to virus attack: – Viruses are small programs which are developed by hackers to corrupt or destroy files stored on computer. There are some viruses which get bind with the PST file of Outlook and corrupt it.
- Corruption of PST due to abnormal termination of Outlook: – Abnormal termination or trying to terminate Outlook when it is working or trying to shutdown computer when Outlook is sending mails can corrupt the PST file of Outlook. Hence to avoid this users not to terminate Outlook in an improper way.
- Corruption of PST file due to improper compression: – To avoid space on computer users sometime try to compression PST file of Outlook. Occurrence of error due to improper compression of decompression procedure can lead to corruption of PST file.
To avoid corruption of PST file users are advised to take backup of PST file on regular basis and when PST file gets corrupted due to any reason it can be replaced with the backed up PST file.
Users need not worry even though PST file gets corrupted without any backup, as corrupted PS file can be recovered using Remo Repair Outlook (PST). This is an advance tool which uses a special algorithm to repair the PST file which was corrupted. This software tool makes a copy of the corrupted PST file before repairing it to ensure the safety of the source PST file. Software has two options to scan and recover the corrupted PST file they are Normal scan and Smart scan. Normal scan is to be selected when PST file has minor corruption and Smart scan is to be selected when PST file is severely corrupted. To know more about this software kindly visit Remo Software website and download the demo version of the software for free. Use the demo version and see if the software is capable to repair your corrupted PST file. If satisfied with the results you can purchase the full version.