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What are the limitations of inbox repair tool ?

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Microsoft Outlook offers the Inbox Repair Tool to correct most of the issues with corrupted PST (Personal Storage) file. Although, this tool works in some cases of PST corruption but it is not always capable of handling PST Corruption. Inbox Repair Tool has the following limitations where it can not help you:

  • Inbox Repair Tool works by repairing the header of PST file and then removing everything in the file, which it does not understand. In case of file header corruption due to version upgrade like situations, it does not have any trouble in repairing the file. But if the contents of file are damaged, Inbox Repair Tool would likely destroy what is left in the file. In this way, it causes serious data loss situations.
  • If you are using Microsoft Outlook 2002 or earlier versions, the Inbox Repair Tool might not work if your PST file has exceeded its 2 GB size limit. Thus, you should first check the file size and if the size if more than 2 GB, the repair operation can not complete.
  • If you can not open the original PST file before you run the Inbox Repair Tool, you can not backup the PST file. The backup copy is useful to recover additional information and missing items. But if the backup can not be taken and thus you can not recover missing and additional information of PST file. In this case, you may lose your critical data.

In all above situations, your PST file remains inaccessible. To handle such cases, you are recommended to use power third party PST recovery software such as Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair.