Repair method for Outlook PST file corruption

Outlook's PST files can be corrupted for several reasons, which may include PST file size limits, and file system errors that cause corruption in the loss of important blocks of data from using CHKDSK from a healthy PST file. OUTLOOK2K OUTLOOK2003 These two versions, when a single PST file exceeds 2GB, the open program appears

Errors have been detected in the file. Quit all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair

This error, all subdirectories and mail in the Outlook Today directory will not be displayed. In the face of such a disastrous problem, how to solve it? Here are a few ways for you to refer to.

Method One: Fix outlook2007 PST file error with ScanPST

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When you enter Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Normally, the system prompts you that the last time you did not shut down correctly caused the data file error. Click OK to go in, did not want to empty the "Deleted Items" directory, there is a problem. System prompts:

An error was found in the file d:winmaggnaw0725.pst. Quit Outlook and all mail-enabled applications, and then use the Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) to diagnose and repair errors in your files. For more information about the Inbox Repair Tool, see Help.

Close Outlook and related Office 2007 programs immediately, and then ctrl+shift+esc the task Manager to see if there are any related processes. Scanpst.exe can be found in the Office installation directory, such as my path is D:program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12Scanpst.exe This is a graphical interface of the program. To execute it, you can see that there will be 8 steps. Click the browse button first to find the PST file you want to repair. During the subsequent repair process, you can see the "Check consistency" and "find lost data" steps, after analyzing the data file, the Program pop-up dialog box prompts:

1. The following program has been scanned: Error found in D:winmaggnaw0725.pst file.

2. Click Repair to fix these errors.

3. Find 45 folders in this file

4. Find 7480 messages in this document "

In this pop-up dialog box there is a check option: Before repairing, back up the files that will be scanned. This is very important. Click on the "Repair" button after checking. Wait for the program to finish, try to enter Outlook 2007 again, the error no longer occurs!

Method Two: The repair of method one may take 20-25 minutes, the middle need manual intervention, click the Confirmation button. If you're lucky enough to fix it, you can go to step 3rd. But sometimes the ScanPST repair process will be an error, unfortunately ScanPST has not been able to repair the file. Another program is needed to continue our repair work, this tool is clicked to download. Note that this program is VB6 written, running is the need for VB Run-time Library. Here we go.

1. Now confirm the hard disk space. Make a backup of your current PST

2. Open the program select the original PST file, fill in the new PST file file name and path

3. Fill in the need to intercept the original PST file size, 20-25m can get better results. You can also

Change the size of this intercept. For example, if 20-25m can, you can narrow the interception value like 10-15m, but if 20-25m does not work, then increase the interception value such as 30-35m, and so on, until the result.

4. Re-use the newly generated PST file to ScanPST repair, so that's it

After the 5.pst file is repaired, it's time to connect the PST file to Outlook.

In general, just overwrite the original PST, then open Outlook on it, but after the restoration of PST reuse, it must be immediately broken. This is the compact operation we need to compress the Inbox (right-click Outlook Today in Outlook, click Properties in the Small menu, click the Advanced button when the window appears, click Compact now to perform compression), This process takes about 4-8 hours. Compact operation time is too long, and 4-8 hours also need manual intervention, it is not very convenient.

Method Three: Because the above method is inconvenient, there is another method, the longest only 30 minutes, first delete the original corrupted PST file, open Outlook, will be prompted to create a new PST file Click Confirmation to generate a new inbox, and then file->open-> Personal floders (*.pst) opens the repaired PST file and uses the mouse to move mail in the repaired Inbox to the new Inbox in Outlook's Folder List view.