Common Factors Which Damage The Pst Files Of Ms Outlook

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The PST (personal storage files) files are a very crucial element of MS Outlook. It holds the entire mailbox data of MS Outlook. The data in every folder i.e. contacts, calendar, sent items, inbox is stored in PST format only. Unfortunately these files of utmost importance become corrupt because of countless reasons. In this article we will discuss some common hardware & software factors which damage the files and measures for PST recovery. A user can try the hard disk recovery tools for restoring the Outlook.

Hardware reasons which damage the PST files

There are many hardware factors which damage the Personal Storage Table files. Some of them are defective networking device, hard disk corruption, header corruption, power failure, etc.

Faulty networking mechanism: A faulty networking mechanism can badly rapture the PST files in hard disk. A user should refer only authenticated networking devices for accessing the network.

Sudden Shutdown: A PST can go corrupt because of a sudden shutdown. The sudden shutdown occurs because of power failure, abrupt shutdown, system failure, etc.

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... disk corruption or header corruption: All the data is stored by the hard disk. Any minute error can damage the hard disk severely.

Software reasons which damage the PST files

There are also many software reasons which are equally responsible for the corruption of software.

Virus attack: Viruses like 2GB error do fatal damage to the PST files.

2GB limitation: If the PST files exceed 2GB limitation then they become inaccessible. This problem prevails in Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002.

Outlook corruption: An Outlook email client can be damaged because of a sudden shutdown.

Tools for salvaging the PST files

2GB Truncation Tool: The Microsoft based 2GB Truncation Tool can be used for cropping the size of Offline Storage Table (OST) files and Personal Storage Table (PST) Files in MS Outlook. After compacting the mails a user can save Outlook from lot of corruptions. This tool also accelerates the pace of MS Outlook. A user would have to download the 2GB Truncation tool from Microsoft’s support website.

Inbox Repair Tool: The Inbox Repair Tool or Scanpst.exe tool is a free Microsoft based tool. It is located in the Program files of MS Outlook. This tool scans and rectifies minor PST file errors from MS Outlook. A user can search this tool for using it.

What the experts suggest

Using the 2GB Truncation and Inbox Repair hard disk recovery tools is very difficult. These tools also do not guarantee successful PST recovery. For easily recovering the PST data a user can refer the Kernel for Outlook PST Repair. This is a spectacular tool which guarantees data recovery from any kind of situation. This tool successfully & spontaneously retrieves the data (emails, drafts, calendars, journal, notes, tasks, contacts etc.) with precision. It works with Microsoft Outlook 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010.

The Author is a System Administrator who has rendered many Hard Disk Recovery solutions to his clients. In this article, he has mentioned about the hardware and software issues which damage the PST files. He has also mentioned about the PST recovery tool in this article.