You can store important information in PST file, you can store email, contacts, appointments etc in MS outlook. All of these files are valuable and critical. Due to regularly use of file and other problem like exceed in file of size, virus attack, hardware failure etc, damaged the PST file. Because of corruption of file you would not able to access these files and you encounter with some error messages which indicate that your .pst file gets corrupted or damaged like: “abc.pst file cannot be accessed”, “axs.pst file is not a personal storage folder file” and so on.
To fix corruption or damaged in MS outlook PST file, Microsoft has provided a free repair tool known as Scanpst.exe (Inbox Repair Tool). This repair tool check and scan the problem arises in the PST file and if any error is found then it tries to repair the file as per its working. If you have not idea about Scanpst.exe then it is necessary to have a basic knowledge of this tool and how it works in resolving the corruption or damage in PST file.