Inbox Repair Tool Fails To Repair PST File Due to Internal Errors

Posted by admin on April 16th, 2009

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).

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PST Recovery: Using PST Crop Tool to recover your PST file

Posted by admin on April 1st, 2009


Previous version of Ms Outlook 2002 has major drawback. Actually Ms Outlook 2002 maintains a PST file in ANSI format. When the file size increases more than 2 GB, it can get corrupted and sometimes shows slow while being loaded. In this case, you are not able to open your file or even you can’t read your important data. To recover your pst file you need PST Recovery tool. But the situation can be avoided using Microsoft provided PST Crop utility that is found as pst2gb.exe.
When the PST file crossed its limit, a user getting an error message:
“Errors have been detected in the file <file path>. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool.”
But Inbox Repair Tool fails in this situation due to corruption or large file size. Before using any PST Recovery Software, we can use PST Crop tool. It will take 2 GB of free space.
1. You can download the tool and extract 2gb152.exe file to an empty folder.
2. Then we have to start Pst2gb.exe.
3. We can then carry on cropping PST by selecting the file and specifying the destination.
4. We also need to specify the amount of data to be truncated and use Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) to check its integrity thereafter.
Before cropping it, take a back up of your file. The amount of data truncated may involve important email messages. In some case, cropped file doesn’t open. So, we can apply again Crop Tool on another copy of PST.
Remember one thing that if the file is already corrupted, in this case we have to use PST Repair applications that can scan and recover lost information. PST utilities are safe to use for corrupt PST files due to their read-only design. This software will scan and then restoring the file to a safe location. Many PST Recovery software’s have a feature called split pst files. Through split pst software you can split your pst file, so that you are able to use your mailbox.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Recovery is the finest PST Recovery Software for repairing and recovering PST files. This software will scans repairs and restores corrupted Outlook PST files and retrieve emails, calendar, notes. This software has many features like; it supports Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007. This software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT4.
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Registry Corruption Problems in Outlook and PST File Corruption

Posted by admin on July 23rd, 2008

Microsoft Outlook is the most popular and powerful email client with several unique features. It is used by corporate users as well as general home computer users. For corporate users, it has several added features. To use these features, you need to install outlook with the Corporate Workgroup option.

Corporate Workgroup options allows you to utilize MAPI or Messaging Application Programming Interface. But, every feature may have some or the other problems and the same thing applies to this Corporate Workgroup option.
Sometimes, when you try to access PST files from your Outlook account, you may get the following error message:
“The operation failed due to a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, please reinstall.”

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