Outlook Inbox Repair Tool

Stellar Information Systems Limited- Gurgaon- leading provider of advanced data recovery solutions and services, today announced the release of Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair v4.0, an improved version of its PST recovery software. The new software is compatible with Windows 7 and features a redesigned user interface that closely resembles Microsoft Outlook interface. The product also incorporates significant modifications to its demo version, which includes concise preview of all its recoverable components like, emails, calendars, contacts, tasks, notes and journals. It further simplifies the file restoration process by eliminating the need of rescanning the file after activating the product.To analyze its recovery features and to experience its reworked design, you can download its free demo version from the company’s website. The software is currently available for purchase at a reduced price and has been bundled with two new free software that are used for splitting PST files and for PST password recovery- Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST File Splitter and Stellar Phoenix Outlook Password Recovery.

“Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair 4.0 is the next generation user-focused software that is compatible with Windows 7 and features a new and improved Outlook-like interface with simplified file restoration procedure.” said Sunil Chandna, CEO of Stellar Information Systems. “Also, the free downloadable version allows preview of all the recoverable emails, calendars, contacts, tasks etc. ”

Features of Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair v4.0:

1-Supports Windows 7
2-Allows preview of all the recoverable E-mails, Calendars, Contacts, Tasks, Notes and Journals
3-Features new user-friendly interface
4-Demo version runs even without Outlook
5-Rescanning the PST file after upgrading from Demo version is not required
6-Features a counter for individual folder indicating the number of items present in that folder
7-Allows toggling between horizontal and vertical reading pane (of the right pane) for your convenience
8-Gives a detailed summary report of recoverable items (emails, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and journals)
9-Supports direct file saving after activation-No rescanning of PST is required
10-Allows sorting by fields

Pricing

The software is available with different licensing options at a remarkably low prices. The single user download edition is priced at $129.
Technician and administrator licenses are also available. For details, visit Stellar’s website.

About Stellar Information Systems

Stellar Information Systems Limited is an experienced data recovery company providing advanced data recovery solutions across more than 137 countries. The company has global clientèle of about 1,100,00 with direct presence in USA, Europe and Asia. It is known for industry’s best solutions for data recovery from a wide range of operating systems and applications.

Contact Information

For more information about product features and updates:

Call : +1-866-554-25 (TOLL FREE)
Mailto: links[at]stellarinfo.com.
Web Address- http://www.repair-outlook-pst.com/

Outlook Scanpst.exe is a utility to allow recovering folders and other items from a corrupted PST file. The Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) examines the file directory structure and individual item headers and tries to repair what it can. But there can be instances when the tool might fail to work. This usually occurs when the corruption is severe or if the file size is more than 2 GB. If this occurs, you need an appropriate backup that could restore the lost data or a powerful third-party Outlook Inbox Repair utility that could apply suitable repair algorithms. For example, consider a situation when you try to start Microsoft Outlook 2000. You can fail to start and receive the below error message: “The file :\ .pst could not be found.” Where is the drive letter of your primary drive, denotes the full path to .pst file and is the name of your Outlook PST file. Since Outlook cannot find the file it requires, it shows 'Create/Open Personal Folders File' dialog box to create a new file.

Cause

The .pst file is currently not available for Outlook, because either it is located on an unavailable server or the file is corrupted. Outlook fails to open a corrupted personal folder.

Solution

1. If the Outlook PST file doesn't contain important email items, you can simply recreate a new Outlook Personal Folder by following steps as prompted by dialog box appearing after the above error message.

2. If the file is located on a server that is not available at the moment, you should contact your network administrator. However, you are not suggested to store PST on a server link. The chances are that the file can get corrupt

3. For repairing the corrupted .pst file, you can use Scanpst.exe. To run the tool, you first need to locate Scanpst.exe file and start the tool after specifying corrupted file path and name. In case, if Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) fails to fix corruption with the file, you are suggested to use more powerful commercial Outlook PST repair tools. These utilities run exclusive repair algorithms for a corrupted .pst file. For best repair results, you are recommended to use Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair software. It is a high-end Inbox Repair Tool that incorporates powerful scanning algorithms to repair the damaged Outlook personal folder. It supports Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000 and can repair even when the (Scanpst.exe) has failed.

A corrupted PST file is often attempted to repair using Inbox Repair Tool(scanpst.exe). The tool is included in all the installation options of Microsoft Office Outlook. But if it fails to fix the corruption, you are suggested to look for powerful commercial applications to repair the file.

For example, consider a situation when you send an email in Microsoft Outlook. You notice that the mail is not moved to Sent Items folder, as expected, but instead gets stuck in Outbox folder. This might happen with each email that you send.

Cause

Some typical reasons causing this issue are:

1.You open and close the email message when it is still in Outbox folder. Outlook attempts to deliver the message after establishing a proper connection with mail server. If you open and close before it actually has been sent, you change its status.
2.You are running Outlook in offline mode
3.You have installed an outdated or incompatibile add-in
4.You used an old account to reply a message. It particularly occurs when you have an old email and have changed the email accounts after receiving that email. By default, Outlook will try to send the reply using the same previous non-existing account and not the current account.
5.The Outlook Personal Folder or Personal Address Book file is damaged

Solution

You can use these solutions to fix the current issue:

1. To correct the changed mail status, you should open the email message and click on its toolbar to Send
2. Clear the Work Offline check box listed in File menu. Use Send/Receive option to send the email message
3. Use Add-In Manager to deactivate the add-in
4. Move the email message from Outbox to Inbox and send a new message to the recipient.
5. Repair the corrupted .pst file using Inbox Repair Tool for MS outlook. Locate the tool with name ’scanpst.exe’ using Windows Serach option and browse to the affected .pst file. Start the repair process and restart Outlook. Try to duplicate the above behavior. If it is still an issue, you need a third-party PST repair tool. These software can work even when the Inbox Repair Tool(scanpst.exe) cannot do so.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is an unmatched Outlook Inbox Repair utility to repair and restore corrupted Outlook PST file. It is a safe repair product that works in each instance of PST file corruption. This Inbox Repair Tool is compatible with Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It can restore all file contents including emails, notes, journals, appointments, contacts and others. You can use it securely for cases of Inbox Repair Tool(Scanpst.exe) failure.

The Inbox Repair tool also named as Scanpst.exe is designed to recover folders and items from a corrupted Personal Folders (.pst) file in Microsoft Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003, and Outlook 2007. Depending upon your operating system the tool is automatically installed with all English-language Microsoft Outlook installation options.

Location of inbox Repair Tool:

For Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Windows 2000:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\NT
For Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\95

You don't need to install Inbox Repair Tool in Microsoft Outlook 2002 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 setup. Microsoft Office 2000 does not place the Inbox Repair tool on a menu as compared to Microsoft Office 97 version.

Process to run Inbox Repair Tool:

1.Click Start, and then point to Find or to Search, depending upon your operating system.
2.Type scanpst.exe in the search for files or folders named box
3.Double click the Scanpst.exe file to open the Inbox Repair Tool.
4.Type the path and the file name of the personal folders (.pst) file or browse to locate the file by using the Windows file system.
5. Click Start.

How Inbox repair Tool Operate:

1. Directory structure and item headers of .pst file is analyzed to try to recover all folders and items.
2. Recovery of the Personal Folders (.pst) file means that the tool found problems, and repaired what it could.
3. The Inbox Repair Tool tries to turn any file into a Personal Folders (.pst) file. For example, if you rename an executable file to "Something.pst" (without quotation marks), the tool changes the file to a mountable .pst file.
4. Before trying to repair the file the tool makes a backup copy of the .pst file..

Validation and error correction process of Inbox Repair Tool:

The .pst file is a database file and the inbox repair toll validates and corrects errors in internal data structure such as B-Tree and reference counts. There is abstraction between low level objects and upper level structures which includes messages, calendar items, and so on. During Validation an item associated with a block will be removed which is either unreadable or corrupted. Folder and Messages reflects visible changes at higher level.

Limitations of Inbox Repair Tool:

Inbox Repair Tool mainly works to repair the file in case of file header corruption due to version upgrade like situations. The tool repairs the header of PST file and then remove everything in the file which it did not understand in case if the contents of file are damaged.
Check the size of pst file in earlier versions of outlook to avoid hindrance to repair process. Inbox Repair Tool might not work properly if the size of the pst file exceeded its 2GB size limt in case of Microsoft Outlook 2002 or earlier versions.

Backup is very necessary before you proceed for any repair process to recover additional information and missing items. If you can not open the original PST file before you run the Inbox Repair Tool, you can not backup the PST file and you may lose your critical data.

To handle such cases, you need PST recovery software.!

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair software is an effective Outlook Inbox Repair Tool to scan, repair, and restore corrupted PSTs (Personal Storage Files). Designed for Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000, the inbox repair tool can recover all PST components including e-mails, notes, contacts, calendar entries, journals and more.

Most of the corruption issues encountered in Microsoft Outlook PST files occur due to power failure, not closing the application properly or Outlook errors. The built-in utility, scanpst.exe, is competent to fix minor corruptions with the file. However, most of the PST file corruption problems cannot be resolved by this Inbox Repair Tool. To solve them, you must use a third-party product that could scan the corrupted file efficiently and restore it at a safe location.

To exemplify, consider a situation when you to try start Outlook or open the .pst file, but it reports corruption errors. To repair the file, you run scanpst.exe tool, but it too fails. You encounter an error message, which is similar to below:

“An error has occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file.”

Cause

Two possible reasons for this error to occur are:

You are using a Outlook 97-2002 PST file. Scanpst cannot work for the file that is bigger than 2 GB in size.
PST is severely damaged and cannot be repaired using Inbox Repair Tool.

Solution

You should consider these suggestions to repair such a damaged PST file:

An oversized and corrupted PST file should be first truncated using 2 GB Truncation (Pst2gb.exe) utility. Thus, you can download the tool and use it to crop the file under 2 GB. You can then try to repair the corrupted file by running scanpst.
If you are using a Outlook 2003 or 2007 PST file or 2 GB file size limitation is not the issue, you should opt for better solutions of PST recovery. (However, if a valid backup is available, you should delete the damaged PST file and restore from it). There are several third-party solutions available that can repair the damaged PST file.

PST fix tools come with interactive design and advanced scanning algorithms to examine the corrupted PST file efficiently. The tools can work even if Inbox Repair Tool fails to do so. Such software provide you advanced file repair options that prove safe too.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a fully-featured Inbox Repair Tool with powerful features to repair damaged or corrupted PST file. It is a safe tool with support to Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. The software is easy-to-use with self-descriptive interface and can repair while Inbox Repair Tool failure. It recovers and restores all PST file objects at a safe location.

If you are using Microsoft Outlook as your personal email client and information manager, you are using a PST file on your system. PST file is the repository of all your mission critical and precious Outlook data such as emails, notes, contact, tasks and so forth. In order to prevent data loss from the PST file, you must know how to repair it. When PST file gets corrupted, Microsoft Outlook provides you a tool, which might correct the issue without restoring from a backup. This utility is known as Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) and is installed on the hard drive when MS Outlook is first installed. How to repair a damaged PST file using Scanpst.exe Tool? In a practical scenario of PST file corruption and need of Scanpst.exe tool, you might come across below given error message when you try to open an Outlook folder or access data from it: “Unable to expand the folder. The set of folders could not be opened. Errors could have been detected in the file drive:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.pst. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool.” * The file path, which is specified in above error message, might be different depending upon the version of Windows operating system and Microsoft Outlook that you are using on your system. In order to repair Outlook PST file, go through underwritten steps: - On the Start menu of your Windows desktop, click Run. - In Open box, type below string: drive:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\LocaleID\scanpst.exe Here Locale id is the LCID (Locale Identifier) for the installation of MS Office. For instance, LCID for the English (US) is 1033. To see complete information and list of LCID, get Microsoft Office help. - Click OK button. - In Enter the name of the file you want to scan text box, type the file name and path, which is given in the above error message. Note- You might not be able to make use of the Browse button for locating the PST file because this is located in hidden Windows folder. - In order to change the options of log errors during scan process, click Options button, If you select Append to log or Replace log, the log file would be saved to same folder as the Outlook PST file. - Click Start button. When the scan process gets completed successfully, select Make a backup of scanned file before repairing check box. - Select Repair option. If the Outlook Inbox Repair complete successfully and the PST file gets repaired, you would see the Repair Complete message. In the Scanpst.exe tool could not have resolved the problem and repaired the PST file, you would require to use the backup copy of damaged PST file to restore it. To start using the backup copy o the PST file as new primary PST file, follow given steps: - Start Microsoft Outlook. - In File menu, click the Data File Management option. - Select the Outlook PST file, which is corrupted and then click Remove button. - Click Add button, Select Personal Folders File (PST) and then Click OK button. - Select the PST that you want to use as new primary file. - Click OK button. Relying completely on the Inbox Repair Tool is not recommended as it can not resolve the corruption scenarios, which are caused by external reasons such as virus infection and improper system shutdown. You should regularly backup your valuable data on a reliable storage media. But in case if the Scanpst.exe fails to repair the PST file and you do not have complete backup, then you need to go for third party applications. These software are powerful enough to methodically scan damaged PST file and extract all of the inaccessible or damaged data from it. They are known as Outlook Inbox Repair applications. These utilities do not require sound and prior technical skills to achieve absolute recovery as the come equipped with interactive and simple graphical user interface. Due to read only and non destructive conduct, they do not alter original contents of the file. Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is the most effective and widely used Inbox Repair Tool to ensure absolute recovery of PST file. It supports recovery from the PST files of Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 and NT4 (SP6).