PST or Personal Storage Table is the most important file of Outlook. It stores all the important mails, messages, contacts, attached media, tasks, notes and other data of a user. PST file may get corrupt due to oversize, viruses and other malware in system. PST File get damaged due to following reasons:
If PST is not available in Personal Folder
Facing Error 0x80040119 when sending/receiving mails
Error in Data link library files
These errors damage pst file and thus Outlook behaves abnormally. There are several methods by which we can [Repair Outlook PST file] (http://www.filerepairtools.com/tips/repair-damaged-outlook-pst-file/). Some of these are discussed below. Check out the methods
Using ScanPST.exe Tool: Microsoft Inbuilt Scanpst.exe can repair corrupt PST file by scanning the file and then fixing the errors as found.
• Open Outlook and Click on File Menu
• Go to Info>>Account settings>>Data files
• Copy the location address of your .PST file
• Now launch scanpst.exe by seraching for tool in start menu.
• Paste the address of .pst file and click start
The scanpst.exe tool will scan the pst file and report errors if any. If the scan shows some errors, then click on repair button, the tool will repair it and recover your lost data.
Archive Data of Large PST: Oversize PST is one of the main reason by which PST file can get corrupt. We can archive this data and move to different folder or use compact feature to reduce the size of PST file. We can also split PST in to multiple small PST files to make it compatible with proper functioning of Outlook. Another method you can try is increasing the size of PST file by Regedit options and changing the MaxFileSize value.
Using Outlook PST Repair: [Outlook PST Repair] (http://www.filerepairtools.com/outlook-pst-repair.html) will help you to recover all important data. It's Intelligent repair engine can repair encrypted PST files and deleted items. The tool helps finding lost PST files, sort the search criteria, allows you to preview recovered items and save in any drive of system in RTF, HTML, EML, or MSG format. PST recovery works with MS Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 & 2016 and compatible with Windows operating system up to Windows 10.