How to Recover Your Emails from Corrupt Outlook PST Files Efficiently

How to Recover Your Emails from Corrupt Outlook PST Files Efficiently

At times the Outlook PST data file can get corrupted and you are no longer able to access your valuable emails. In this article, we will attempt to recover the email data with the help of the advanced DataNumen Outlook Repair tool.

The MS Outlook application has an impeccable reputation in the industry as the most sophisticated desktop email client in commercial use. For more than two decades it has had an unchallenged reign in the desktop email market and can boast of millions of users across the world. While the Outlook application is a fabulous piece of software, it too has its fair share of flaws like its propensity to crash and mess up the underlying PST file. Incidents of PST file corruption are very serious as they can hamper your access to your valuable email data. Let’s discuss the issue in detail.

Key Causes Behind Corruption of Outlook PST Files

Corruption of Outlook PST files can occur due to several causes. While crashes and application hang-ups are often blamed as the primary causes, the Outlook PST file can get corrupted due to several other reasons too. For example hardware issues in the storage media like the occurrence of bad sectors can compromise the Outlook PST files. That apart Outlook files can get corrupted due to resource conflicts, faulty plugins, and even virus attacks. In some cases, Outlook data files stored on external hard drives or on removable media are also known to get corrupted during the data transfer process. In the case of Outlook 2002 and previous versions, incidents of data corruption are also known to occur when the PST file size exceeds the 2GB limit.

Shortcomings of Outlook Inbox Repair Tool

Many Outlook users mistakenly believe that if they ever encounter a corrupted Outlook PST file, they will use the Inbox Repair tool (SCANPST.EXE) present in MS Outlook to recover the corrupted data. Unfortunately, in many cases, the tool does a shoddy job and fails to completely recover the data. There have been incidents where the Inbox Repair tool managed to recover less than fifty percent of the emails. Inexplicably in some cases, it simply crashes or fails to recover anything and ends up wasting valuable time.

Add to that the tool is difficult to access for novice users. There is no straightforward link given and you would have to search the application via its executable SCANPST.EXE file. You would be surprised to know the file is present at different locations based on the Outlook version you are running.

Recovering Emails With DataNumen Outlook Repair

When you encounter an incident of PST file corruption, you should immediately get hold of the DataNumen Outlook Repair application. This highly capable tool is designed to extract every data element that you might have stored in the Outlook data file without fail. Not only would you be able to recover your emails, you can also get back embedded images, contacts, and any other data that you might have stored in the PST file.

To recover your emails, just launch the application and select the corrupted PST file. You can choose to set an output path and file name and if needed move to the Options tab to check the choice to split the output file into smaller parts if it will be too large. Next just click on the “Start Repair” button and wait for the application to generate the output file. Once the recovery process is complete, you can simply open the output file normally in the MS Outlook application.

Just in case you have several PST files to repair, you should use the “Batch Repair” option to recover multiple compromised files in one go. The tool also allows you to effectively recover contents from large PST files with minimum fuss. The application can perform the recovery with equal ease irrespective of where the corrupted PST file is located. Moreover, it can support the recovery of PST data from different media types ranging from the ubiquitous USB drives to old Zip disks.

Every Outlook User Should Consider Keeping DataNumen Outlook Repair Installed in Their Systems

While working on the MS Outlook application, you may come across several situations where you will find the DataNumen Outlook Repair application handy. To start off with, let say you accidentally deleted a couple of important emails by mistake. If those emails have gotten deleted from the trash folder too, you are simply out of luck unless you have this powerful tool around. The application can do a deep scan of your data files including any temporary data files too and try to recover the deleted emails.

The application can also be used to speed up the performance of your Outlook application. As you keep working on the Outlook email client, more and more emails get stored into the mailbox which bloats up the PST data file. This hampers the efficiency of the email client and you should consider splitting the PST file into smaller parts. Some of us who still use older versions of Outlook like the 2002 edition or earlier can also use this technique to prevent incidents of data corruption arising out of the PST file reaching the 2GB limit.

Another key advantage of this tool is its capacity to format different versions of Outlook files to ensure compatibility. For example, with the help of this tool, you can convert the Outlook data present on an old machine in the Outlook 97-2002 format to the much newer format like say Outlook 2003 to 2019 format.

The application also offers several interesting choices when one attempts the recovery of a corrupted PST file. Under the “Options” tab, you get the choice to run a “Fast scan and recovery”, in case you are looking to quickly recover data. You can further speed up the recovery process by checking the option that asks the application to ignore empty folders. Just in case you are looking to recover a humungous file, you can check the “Optimization for huge file recovery” option.