Friday 6 December 2013

Repairing Scanpst Not Resonding Error In Outlook

 Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used and preferred application for accessing emails. All data files in mailbox item in Outlook is stored as .pst (personal Storage Table) file. Sometimes it becomes hard to open emails in Outlook due to certain corruption in data file. There a number of reasons for Pst corruption. Some of the common reasons for errors in Outlook are : malicious virus attack, files larger than 2GB, unexpected closing of outlook application, interruption in power supply, system shutdown abruptly etc. In such a scenario, errors that cause the damage are required to for repairing. Scanpst.exe is the in-built repair tool, which is found at default location in all versions of Outlook. This utility gets installed automatically on installation of Outlook application. 


Why Scanpst.exe tool is required ?

The inbox Repair tool is used to resolve minor corruption issues like sending/receiving errors or when import/export process does not get completed. This repair tool scans the outlook PST file entirely. The utility can be run for scanning when Outlook is not working properly. 

What are the error Messages When The inbox Repair Tool Fails To Repair PST file ?
1. “Scanpst.exe tool is not responding. An unknown error has occurred”
2. “scanpst.exe fails with error code:80040818”
3. “file is not a valid personal folder”

What are the Scenarios When Scanpst Fails in Repairing ?
  • It is unable to repair severe corruption of PST files
  • cannot repair encrypted/password protected files
  • Oversized files
  • when Outlook is not installed properly and there is faulty installation of scanpst.exe tool 

Due to its limitations, the utility fails to repair badly damaged PST files. Therefore, a Third party repair software is available to resolve all sorts issues in corruption of Outlook data files. PST Repair software is such an application that retrieves even permanently or accidentally deleted files. The program is designed with more advanced features. It splits large files on the basis of different criteria such as sender, receiver, date time etc. it restores eencrytion or files that are protected with password. 

If scanpst.exe stops responding during the repair process, PST Repair tool is the most effective and reliable program to restore all the attributes of your email account in Outlook such as contacts, notes, journals,tasks, calender etc. 



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