Repair Outlook Archive PST File

Since Microsoft Outlook is widely used by most of the people all around the world for storing and managing emails, notes and many other important documents, Microsoft provides a .pst file for storing all the useful elements. But it has certain fixed size,i.e. 2GB so if the size of PST files goes beyond its limited size, then it would corrupt the PST files making all the data inaccessible. Luckily you can repair archive PST file Outlook by taking help of a professional tool called PST Repair Tool.

        

As the number of Outlook elements increases day by day, size of PST file also increases. So in order to avoid emails based on category and maintaining the size of PST files, Micrososoft Outlook comes with a feature called Archive. This archive reduces the burden of PST files to a great extent. But sometimes archive can get damaged unexpectedly which makes all the important data inaccessible. Hence after its corruption, if you try to access the data, then it will display an error saying:

“Cannot start Outlook”

“Invalid Xml, the file cannot be loaded”

“Cannot open Outlook Window”

“The file [path]\archive.pst has reached its maximum size”

All these error messages indicates the corruption in archive PST files. There are several reasons that leads to archive corruption such as:

• Virus attack on the storage drive will result in severe archive PST file corruption
• While accessing the archive file, unexpected power failure will make all the data inaccessible
• Crash in Outlook due to some unknown errors will corrupt the archive PST file
• Archive PST files can get corrupted if it is shared over multiple computer networks
• Upgrading Microsoft Outlook from older version to newer version will damage the archive PST files.

In such cases Microsoft Outlook is always ready with its inbox repair tool commonly known as scanpst.exe. It can easily fix archive PST file by just following the below simple steps:

By opening Windows Explorer, browser for the folder where Outlook is installed. By default it would be “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office XX” where XX indicates Office version number

Now after double clicking on “scanpst.exe”, click on “Browse” and then select the crashed archive PST file

Then click on “Scan” button which finds the error by scanning the archive PST file

Finally create a backup of scanned file before repairing and select the “Repair” button to repair Outlook archive PST file.

        

If the above mentioned steps does not help you, then download the free PST Repair Tool for complete repair.

In order to get the complete user guide, just click on the given below:

http://microsoftscanpstexeoutlook.blogspot.in/p/user-guide-to-run-pst-repair-software.html