Scan PST Fails - What Next

"Scanpst.exe fails with Fatal Error: 80040818"

Most of the time, Outlook users get this error message with the failure of Scanpst when they try to repair corrupted PST file. Scanpst .exe is the free inbuilt repair tool provided by Microsoft. This is generally used by users when they get corrupted PST file. This is the primary tool but it is not so effective always. There are many such occasions where it fails to repair corrupted file and leave file unfixed.

When you start repair process it successfully goes to 4 th step but right after that it stop. You get the same unaffected PST file with you. There are some reasons which lead to the failure of this tool. It only tries to repair corruption on header of mail items and if there is any issue related with this it repair efficiently but if the corruption goes beyond this means severe corruption then this tool is not able to repair corrupted PST file.

Reasons for scanpst.exe fails -

• If the corrupted PST file size is more than 2GB. Scanpst tool is not able to repair corrupted PST file whose file size is more than 2GB.
• If there is severe corruption in file then this tool is not going to correct the corruption issue. As the tool is able to correct corruption if corruption is in header part.

After the failure of scanpst, you have the same corrupted PST file. Here you need to repair and fix corruption and for that move to the alternative solution. Using third party PST repair tool is the best solution. Third party tool is efficient to repair PST file in spite of having any kind corruption. There is no any limitation of using this tool.

It fixes the corruption issue without making changes in the stored file. User friendly interface and self explanatory guide makes you to use this software without having any kind of problem. Whenever scanpst exe fails, you can use this third party tool to repair corrupted file and make PST file accessible once again and to save all items stored in the PST file.