Being a regular user of Outlook you might know about .pst file, which is used by MS Outlook to store all its data related to your account on local hard drive. It uses a single .pst file for each Outlook account. Since you are using Outlook from long time, you might be having lot of your personal and professional information stored in your profile i.e. in .pst file.
One day when you try to access your Outlook it may pop up an error instead of opening normally, because of .pst file corruption which stops working of Outlook and may leads to data loss. At this point of time don’t think that your data is lost, you can repair corrupted pst file using some .pst repair tool, but before that it is good to know the reasons for .pst file corruption. You will find various reasons if you Google it, here are few of them:
- Action of third party application: While scanning your hard drive with an anti virus program, if your .pst file is accumulated with more number of emails, it slows down the operation, which may leads to .pst file corruption.
- Abnormal termination of Outlook: At any point of time if you come across any power failure or system crash while accessing your .pst file, Outlook will terminate abnormally without saving any data, which may leads to .pst file corruption.
At any situation, if you face .pst file corruption, as I mentioned earlier, you have an option to repair it using good repair outlook pst tool.
First I suggest you to use self integrated tool which comes with Outlook i.e. scanpst.exe. However in certain cases if the .pst file is highly corrupted, scanpst.exe fails to repair it. In such circumstances make use of some third party tool. They will help you to repair your .pst file even if it is highly corrupted. These tools are incorporated with a good scanning algorithm, which helps to identify the data even if the .pst file is completely corrupted. These third party tools create a new .pst file using the data extracted from old one which prevents over writing of your old .pst file. With the help of these tools you can also repair the password protected, encrypted .pst files and recover the data from them.
There is one such tool called Remo Repair Outlook (PST), which offers you to repair a .pst file and recover data from it. As per my knowledge it is very good software to repair .pst file. The software has an in-built advanced algorithm to search the lost data. You can download the software for the free trail by using the following link http://www.remosoftware.com/remo-recover-windows.exe .
Choose any tool which you like, but don’t go for any wrong one which may again corrupt your .pst file beyond repair. So to avoid this, use the trial version of Remo Repair Outlook (PST), use a copy of your corrupted .pst file and evaluate it. If it reaches your expectation level then use it. This is always a safest way to choose any third party tool.