Know How to Recover Outlook PST Files without Using Scanpst.exe!

People use MS Outlook application for several purposes and during this process whenever they face any issue related to Outlook.pst file the first thing they use to resolve it is Scanpst.exe inbuilt repair tool of Microsoft. During the repairing process most of the people face these two issues -

• People could not detect the location of the file on their PC.
• And once they use it they realize that, it won't repair anything.

This concludes that if you need to repair or recover the MS Outlook's PST file then it cannot be done using Scanpst.exe tool.

Why you should not use Scanpst.exe tool?

Some of the points which concludes that Scanspst.exe is not effective for corrupt PST files includes -

• Scanpst.exe won't repair PST file bigger than 2 GB.
• It doesn't recover damaged data; it does that only for damaged file headers.
• It can't recover file headers rather it deletes those headers and associated data.

Then, how to repair or recover Outlook's PST data?

Well, when the inbuilt utility is not working to fix the PST corruption issue then you have to rely on third party data recovery solution to recover all the valuable items and data of PST file. Generally PST file tends to be huge i.e. it may be in the gigabytes. So, the third party utility should be such that it should be able to deal with several gigabytes of PST data. So, just Outlook PST Repair software which is efficient enough to deal with huge PST files and recovers all its data in a safe and secure place.

Here are the things that you need to do in order to recover your PST data -

• First detect your active PST file on your hard disk.
• Before attempting anything over it just back up all its content.
• Then use third party Outlook PST Repair software and recover all its contents back.

Note - Remember that in most of the Outlook versions the PST file remains hidden in the AppData or Application Data folder. So, to repair it unhide the PST file first.