Scanpst.exe Location in Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook Pst file can store all the important information of the emails, contacts, calender etc. All these information of PST files are valuable and critical. But sometime your PST file gei corrupt or damaged due to virus attack, hardware failure, PST file exceed their limited size etc. To fix the damage or corruption in PST file, Microsoft provide a free repair tool which is called Scanpst.exe or Inbox Repair Tool. The Scanpst.exe can only work if your PST file was damaged by Outlook itself or if it was corrupted due to hard disk problems. 

        

Scanpst.exe location can be different based on the operating system and Outlook and sometimes also depends on which language of Outlook you have installed. So, you need to find out the exact location of the tool before execution. Following are the location of inbuilt repair PST file by using this utility:

1. Scanpst.exe location in Outlook 2000 are :  

    C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MAPI\<locale ID>\NT\scanpst.exe

2. Scanpst.exe location in Outlook 2002 are :

    C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MAPI\\scanpst.exe

3. Scanpst.exe location in outlook 2003 are:

    C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\\scanpst.exe

4. Scanpst.exe location in Outlook 2007 are :

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

5. Scanpst.exe location in Outlook 2010 are :

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14

        

If you find the Scanpst.exe location then you can easily execute the tool and repair damaged PST files. But sometime Scanpst.exe fails to respond and become unable to repair damaged PST files. At that moment you can use third party recovery tool that is Outlook PST Repair Tool software. With the help of this software you can easily recover and restore your damaged PST files of outlook. With the help of this effective and reliable software you can save your recovered PST file at its location.

User Guide to Run PST Repair Software

Step 1: Download PST Recovery Software  and then click on ‘Select Outlook Data File’ dialog box to select the required PST file that you need to repair and recover from Windows hard drive.

Step 2: To start the process of scanning and repairing of damaged or corrupt PST files, click on ‘START’ button

Step 3: You can stop scanning process anytime by clicking on ‘STOP’ button.

Step 4: As soon as this process is finished, you will be able to preview all listed damaged PST file in the left pane. There only you will get a Save button, on clicking which you will be asked to select the specified location to save those repaired PST files.

Step 5: Finally by clicking on ‘Save Recovered File’ button, save those repaired PST files to the required destination and lastly click on OK.