Outlook is the most widely used and easy to use email client. It provides several extended features to communicate with your friends, family members and clients. It also provides the security features to prevent data loss like backup. Outlook provides inbuilt data backup tool. In Outlook 2003, you can backup your PST files by following these steps:

•    Find the location of the Outlook folder, where you have stored your Pst files
•    In this folder, select the PST files you want to backup copy these files and paste to your backup source like zip drive, pen drive, floppy drive or CD. If you archive your PST files, you need to backup the archive.pst file as well.

In this way, you can backup your important data on external sources and can use these data to restore your PST files back. To restore these files, you have to make a new folder in same directory of Outlook application with different name and paste the backup files in this folder. In Outlook, import these files using Import option of File menu.

But there are some situations, where the user paste the backup files in same PST folder from where he/she has taken the backup. In these situations, the data gets overwritten and any new data since the time of backup deletes. If you have some important data that wasn’t included in backup, the data will be lost.

In these situations, you need for PST recovery to recover the lost PST files. You can perform this task with the help of data recovery software. For this particular case, you need to use Windows Data Recovery software. These data recovery software can recover all kind of data from Windows hard drive including Outlook Pst files in all possible case of corruption. You can perform Outlook PST Recovery very easily in a short span of time with these data recovery software. The windows data recovery software are very easy to use and doesn’t require any prior technical knowledge.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software is a powerful and easy to use data recovery software that you can use in Outlook PST Recovery. This software uses advanced scanning algorithms to search and locate the lost outlook PST files and recover them.

This software works in all possible cases of data loss including hard drive formatting, accidental deletion, operating system corruption, file system deletion and virus attack. Windows data recovery software can perform PST Recovery from all file versions of Microsoft Windows operating system including Windows 98, 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista.
You can download the free demo version of this software to see how much of your lost data is recoverable. The demo version of this file recovery software works in same way as full version.  You can see the full preview of your office documents (like PST files and word document) in demo version and hexadecimal preview in hex viewer (associate with software).