How to scan and repair corrupted Outlook files or .pst
When your Microsoft Outlook personal folder (known as .pst) grows bigger, it tends to load, synchronize, or even download emails pretty slow. If your system happens to shut off unexpectedly or crashed@hung (as we’re all familiar), the first thing that you want to know whether your emails are safe. It is like a warehouse where your work, contacts, deals, passwords, financial info and other valuable datas are kept. It is a nightmare that all users of email clients such as MS Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird want to get rid of.
Unfortunately, I’d just experienced the same thing over the weekend but I’m fortunate enough to be able to recover my personal folder data (.pst). My system has the tendency to crash quite often lately (perhaps due to overusage) and it has brought down my Outlook as well.
Usually, when my system backs up, most of the time I’m able to recover my Outlook back, by accepting the 
default prompt to repair the Outlook, or open it up on the Save Mode. But that day is not my day. My outlook just froze.
So be prepared, when your system crashes quite often, start performing back up on all your .pst and .ost files. Preventive is always better than cure. Don’t wait until your Outlook crashes. Luck may not be with you most of the time.
If your system has the symptoms that I mentioned above, start scanning and repairing your personal folder file (.pst) and offline folder file (.ost). To repair .pst file, use scanpst.exe, while scanost.exe is for .ost file. Both executable programs are available with your Outlook. Read More
Quick facts
What is the repair program?
Scanpst.exe – scan personal data file (.pst)
scanost.exe – scan offline folder file (.ost)
Where is the repair tool folder?
Office 2003 : drive:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033
Office 2007 drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE12
Where are pst and ost files kept?
drive:\Documents and Settings\<your login id>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Nice
This JUST happened to me like three weeks ago…. I became so irritated with my PC crashing that I just bought my friends power book off of him….we’ll see if that makes any difference, but regardless I’m going to give this a try and see what happens…. I still have to fix my PC though!!
Thanks for the info!
For this business try-repair .pst,tool helped me not once and as is known it is free,program recover lost Microsoft Outlook data is a sequence of operations involving scanning, identifying and saving such Microsoft Outlook items as messages, contacts, notes, reminders, journals, meetings, etc, recover data when a *.pst file completely or partially stops functioning, for example, it becomes completely or partially unreadable because of other applications, antivirus software or power failures,it scans, identifies and saves data from the pst file without modifying or indexing the source pst file,can save various Microsoft Outlook items as separate files with the .eml, .vcf and .txt extensions,reading data from files created in Microsoft Outlook versions 97, 98, 2000, XP, 2002, 2003, 2007 and saving recovered data in the format of Microsoft Outlook versions 97, 98, 2000, XP, 2002, 2003, 2007.
Try-microsoft pst viewer,as far as i know soft is free,tool will help you to restore your data from files with *.pst and *.ost extension,tool will work under all supported versions of Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as with Microsoft Outlook,can retrieve all contents as a number of files in *.vcf, *.txt and *.eml formats,will extract thousands of different files, that will be placed into any folder, upon your choice,converting of recovered data into a *.pst file, that can be opened by any mail client or viewer .pst file, compatible with Microsoft Outlook, file size will not exceed 1Gb.
for Windows Vista, you can find .pst and .ost files at
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\
To back them up, you can simply cut the file (right-click on the file icon and click cut) and paste in on your desktop. Then to recover it to your outlook program, go to the file path and paste it back in
for Windows Vista, you can find .pst and .ost files at
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\
To back them up, you can simply cut the file (right-click on the file icon and click cut) and paste in on your desktop. Then to recover it to your outlook program, go to the file path and paste it back in