Sometimes when you start Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or 2003, Outlook can not locate the PST file and data inaccessibility problems occur. At this point of time, you may also get error message pointing towards corruption and encounter data loss problems. To resolve such issues, you need to perform PST file recovery.

While starting Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or 2003, you might come across the below error message:

“The file Drive Letter:\path\file name. PST could not be found.”

In the error message, when you click the OK button, Microsoft Office Outlook displays ‘Create/Open Personal Folders File’ dialog box.
Unless you’re using either Microsoft Mail Services or Microsoft Exchange Server, Office Outlook 2003 needs a PST file for storing emails messages, contacts, calendar and other personal data. When Outlook can not find PST file, then the only other folders which you can access are file system folders using MS Outlook as a document explorer.

Cause

You may come across this behavior if Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and 2003 save mails as a PST file and if any of the below mentioned conditions are true:
1. The PST where MS Outlook saves your emails and other personal data is located on a server which is unavailable.
2. The PST where MS Outlook saves your emails and other personal data is corrupted and Outlook can not read it.

Both of these situations need PST Recovery to be fixed.

Resolution

You should never store your PST files over a network. It might cause damage to the PST file. If your PST file is not accessible due to unavailable server, then you should copy this file from sever to your local system and recreate user profile to fix this problem.

If you are experiencing this problem due PST file corruption, you need to first repair the PST file and import repaired files to MS Outlook.

You can repair corrupted PST files using PST Recovery Software. These are user-friendly tools and allow you to easily recover data from PST files without the need of sound and prior technical skills.

PST Recovery Software use efficient scanning procedures to extract all PST objects including emails, notes, contacts, tasks, calendars, journals etc. These software are designed to have non-destructive and read-only nature, they do not perform any write operations.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is the most powerful tool to ensure safe and absolute extraction of your critical data. It supports recovery from Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, XP (2002) and 2000. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT4 (SP6).