Being an Outlook user, you may have encountered several problems while accessing your e-mails in event of .PST corruption. A corrupt .PST file can be a real headache for you as you won’t be able to attend to your official work. The many reasons behind .PST corruption includes improper system shutdown, virus attacks, PST file size crosses 2GB limit, corrupt control data extensions and many more. Corruption could subject your Outlook to behave abruptly. It will become either very sluggish or would freeze on you. And, in worst cases, you would receive an annoying error message at the startup only. In such scenarios, it becomes important for you to use the Inbox Repair Tool. If you are unable to overcome the problem, no need to panic as the situation can be tackled easily. You can simply download a PST repair tool from the Internet and fix the corrupt .PST file without investing too much time and efforts.

As a practical case, when you try and start your Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 version, you may receive the following error message which says:

“The file drive:\path\file name.pst could not be found.”

As a result, you are unable to reach your mailbox. And, when you click OK in the error message, Your Microsoft Outlook displays the Create/Open Personal Folders File dialog box.

Cause

The above behavior is often observed when your Outlook delivers e-mails to your .PST file under the following situations:

· The .PST file is located on a server which is unavailable.

· The .PST file is corrupt.

Resolution

To resolve the issue and repair PST file, you can follow the below-mentioned workarounds:

· Microsoft Outlook does not support .PST file located on network drives

· In case of corrupt .PST file, you may perform PST recovery by using the Inbox Repair Tool by following these steps:

1. Click Start, go to search, and then click Files or Folders

2. Type scanpst.exe in the Search for files or folders named box, and then hit Search Now

3. When the search is done, double-click the scanpst.exe file

4. Type the name of your .PST file, or click Browse to locate the corrupt .PST file

5. Click Start

If you are not able to repair the .PST file, download a reliable repair PST tool from the Internet. Such third-party tools have simple graphical user interface which will guide you to perform repairing task.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair software repairs and restores corrupt .PST files effectively irrespective of the reasons behind corruption. Compatible with Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000, the pst file repair tool restores all constituents of a .PST file including e-mails, calendars, events, contacts etc.