Why Scanpst.exe fails to recover MS outlook PST file

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. 

        

In some circumstances Scanpst.exe fails to recover PST files. In order to fix the damaged or corrupt PST file, this repairing process was unable to solve it and displayed error message in the computer screen such as- Unknown error 0×80040600 or abc.pst file cannot be accessed so on.

But before resolving the problem you need to find out the causes responsible behind such erroneous situation. Some of the reasons are:

• Scanpst.exe can not installed properly
• It only repairs the header part of the file
• Can not repair the Outlook PST which exceeds the size
• It may delete the data which it can not understand
• Unable to repair badly damaged PST file

        

To overcome the limitation of Scanpst.exe limitation and get back your corrupt or damaged PST file then you can use third party Outlook PST Repair Tool Software in order to fix the corruption issue related to the PST file. Since this application makes use of advanced algorithms in order to complete the scanning process. This software is safe and easy to use by users. This software is compatible with all version of MS outlook. With the help of this tool you can recover your larger PST files and shows the preview of the recoverable PST file objects.

User Guide to Run PST Repair Software

Step 1: Download PST Repair 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.