PST Corruption in Windows XP – Pst Repair

Repair Pst - Microsoft Office Outlook provides several advanced features that help you to organize your emails in much efficient manner and thus reduces the time spent in administrating them. The application is flexible to be used as a stand alone as well as in conjunction with Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft SharePoint Server. Outlook allows storing all the emails, calendar items, contacts, notes and other objects in a personal folder, known as .pst file. There can be situations when the file gets corrupt such as unexpected shutdown, application malfunctioning, virus infection and Windows issues. With a damaged PST file, you will observe Outlook behaving in a abrupt and unexpected behavior. To recover PST corrupted in this way, you need to use your recent backup available. But at times, you find certain issues with your backup and fail to restore from it. Thus, to overcome such problems, you need to use PST Repair tools that are powerful utilities to repair and restore the damaged PST file.

To illustrate this, consider you are using Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003 or 2002 that is installed on a system using Microsoft Windows XP. When you attempt to read an email message directly from Inbox, you might fail to do so with one of the following error:

“An unknown error has occurred. 0X80040600”

Or

“An unknown error has occurred. 0x80040119”

You might come across such errors also while clicking Send/Receive button to send or receive an email message.

Additionally, in an attempt of deleting an email message, you might receive an error as below:

“Messaging interface has caused an unknown error”

Cause

Microsoft Outlook exhibits such behavior when the file receiving and storing all its emails i.e. PST is corrupt. Outlook doesn't allow to read, receive or send any email message if its personal folder is damaged that generally occurs due to unexpected shutdown.

Solution

To resolve corruption in .pst files, Outlook provides a built-in tool called Inbox Repair Tool to repair. This tool comes included on first Microsoft Office CD-ROM. Since the tool is not listed in any of the Windows or Outlook menu, you need to locate the tool manually to run it. When using the tool, you will be asked to use a hidden file. So, to execute the process successfully, you need to first show the hidden files. The steps of locating and using the tool in Windows XP are as follows:

1-To show the hidden files, you need to start Windows Explorer and click Folder Options listed in Tools menu.

2-You can then click the View tab and then click Show hidden files and folders under Hidden files and folders

3-Click OK to save the settings

4-After the hidden files settings, you need to locate the PST file. To do so, exit Outlook and click Start and then Run

5-In the Open box, you should type control and click User Accounts in Pick a category view

6-If no Pick a category view is visible, double-click Mail

7-Next, click Data File, Personal Folders and then its settings. Here, you need to note down the Filename box text

8-Click OK to close all the opened windows

9-After this, you should locate the tool. To do so, click Start, Search and then All Files and Folders

10-You then need to type Scanpst.exe in the All or part of the file name box so appearing

11-You can change the selection location in Look in box for your primary drive, usually C:

12-After the tool is located, you can then click it to start

13-You need to specify the file path and name in Enter the name of the file you want to scan box

14-After the tool completes repair process, click OK to complete

15-Open Outlook to check if the problem is resolved. If it persists or you cannot access the file, run PST Recovery software

PST Repair tools are full-fledged products to effectively scan and repair the damaged PST file. Built with powerful file repair algorithms, these PST Recovery utilities give safe, comprehensive and effective results.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is an unmatched PST Repair product. It supports PST file repair for Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. Phoenix PST Recovery is a non-destructive tool that restores all email messages, notes, journals, tasks, and other Outlook objects. The software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT. It also offers Split PST and PST Password Recovery features.