Corruption is a common problem with application files including PST file Microsoft Outlook. Corruption prevents you to access data from the file and thus cause critical data loss situations. To overcome these problems, you are required to opt for PST Recovery.

To repair corrupted PST file, Microsoft Outlook provides an inbuilt utility, which is known as scanpst.exe or Inbox Repair Tool. It examines the damage PST file, finds the error and then correct them. In some corruption scenarios, it can help you in getting your valuable data recovered.

Although, Inbox Repair Tool is helpful in some cases but it does not work in all cases of PST corruption. Sometimes when you try to repair PST file using this utility, you might come across the following error message and the process fails halfway:

“Internal errors were found in this file. They must be repaired for this file to work correctly.”

With this error message, the repair process fails and the file remains corrupted. It does not let you access data until you perform PST Recovery to repair it.

Grounds of this problem

You may face this behavior of Inbox Repair Tool when you scan a Microsoft SharePoint Team Services folder which is synchronized with default PST file. The scanpst.exe tool examines only for standard Microsoft Outlook folder, including Deleted Items folder. The Microsoft SharePoint Team Services PST file does not contain Deleted Items folder, thus Inbox Repair Tool gives this error message.

The Inbox Repair Tool may also fail due to serious corruption to the PST file. This tool can not handle the serious corruption issues like corruption due to virus attack, missing file objects and other reasons.

Resolution

You can fix this problem by repairing PST file using third party tools, known as PST Recovery Software. These software are particularly designed to handle even the severe PST corruption issues. They work in most of the corruption scenarios.
These software have right graphical user interface and thus allow you to easily recovery all of your PST objects including emails, notes, journal, tasks, contacts, calendar entries and other personal information. These PST Recovery Software save the recovered file in .PST format that can easily be imported in Microsoft Outlook to use it.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is the best ever made and the most powerful tool that can repair damaged PST file in the majority of corruption scenarios. It works well with Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is compatible with Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 and NT4 (SP6).