Outlook is the most popular and reliable email client from data security point of view. It is comparatively less prone to failure as other email clients. But sometimes, when you start your Outlook, or if you try to open a PST (Personal Storage Folder) file, you may get the following error message:
“Outlook.pst can not be accessed - 0×80040116”
Here Outlook.pst is the name of the file which you are trying to access.
After this error message if you use Inbox Repair Tool, it will complete the search without returning any kind of error. In this situation, the PST file will become inaccessible.
Reason
This issue generally occurs if the index of your PST file is damaged. It can also occur if some of the system files of your outlook account has been damaged or the PST file you are trying to access is corrupted.
How to fix this issue
To work around this issue, you can use 2 GB Truncation tool or can run Scanpst.exe. After using these tools, try to open the repaired file.
But there is a major drawback of these tools that they can’t work if the problem is caused due to some external reasons rather than of PST file such as index corruption, PST corruption due to virus attack or system malfunction.
In such situations, to access the corrupted PST file, you need to repair it. It can be done using PST Repair software. These software are very easy to use and you can repair PST files by yourself no matter you have any prior technical knowledge of using these software or not. These software works in most of the cases of PST corruption and restore it in its original format without changing the contents of the files.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is an award winning and robust outlook recovery software that you can use in case of PST corruption. This software uses powerful scanning algorithms to perform thorough scan of your computer hard drive and extract as much data as possible.
This PST recovery software can restore all the elements of your Outlook account including emails, contacts, notes, schedule, journal and other personal storage files. This software can repair PST files of all versions of Microsoft Office Outlook including Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002/XP, and 2000.
