Microsoft Outlook, a popular mail client and personal information manager, which stores your significant data in PST (Personal Storage Table) file. You can configure MS Outlook in three different manners: IMO (Internet Mail Only), Corporate or Workgroup, and No E-mail. IMO and Corporate or Workgroup are the most commonly used configurations of the application. In earlier versions of Microsoft outlook, you can set up Outlook to a MAPI compatible mail server, whereas modern configurations can be used for connecting to different ISP and underlying SMTP, POP3, and IMAP mail servers. However, if your Outlook data file gets damaged in any of such configurations, you face critical data loss situations and require PST Recovery Tool to sort out the problem. Under some circumstances, you may not be able to send an email from your Microsoft Outlook account after corruption to the PST file. Furthermore, you come across the below error message while sending an email:...

If you are using Microsoft Outlook as an email client and personal information manager, your data is stored in a PST file. PST (Personal Storage Table) is the main storage file of Microsoft Outlook, which contains all the folders, profile settings, rules, and Outlook configurations. If the PST file gets damaged due to any reason, you can not access the data stored in the file. It leads to critical data loss and requires PST Recovery operation to be performed, if there is no updated backup available. When your PST file gets damaged, Microsoft Outlook inbuilt utilities can help you to work around corruption, without switching to backup copy of the file. This PST file repair tool is known as Scanpst.exe or Inbox Repair Tool. It is installed on Windows hard drive when you first install Microsoft Outlook application. When PST file corruption occurs, Outlook does not work properly. You encounter strange behavior of the application and various error message, like:...

Any version of MS Outlook can be upgraded to Microsoft Outlook 2007. This also migrates all the registry settings. But it is recommended that before starting any upgrade operation, including MS Outlook, you must backup all the data files that can get affected. In MS Outlook, this data file is PST or Personal Storage Folder. This file stores all e-mails, notes, contacts, calendars, and other objects. To rectify PST file corruption, all Outlook installations include a utility called Inbox Repair Tool under a program file-Scanpst.exe. But if the PST corruption remains unresolved by Inbox Repair Tool, you need an effective PST Recovery utility.

To clarify the above scenario, let's take a related scenario. A user upgrades to MS Outlook 2007 from an earlier version, for say MS Outlook 2003. After the upgrade is over, when he tries to open the Outlook PST file, it fails to open and gives the following error on screen: ...

PST File Recovery - CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is the general technique applied to implement data reliability. Basically, it is a function which is responsible for detecting any changes to data that are used across network or stored on storage devices. Microsoft Outlook PST employs CRC check each time when you open the file. If you get Cyclic Redundancy Check errors while trying to access PST, this indicates errors with your PST and in many cases with the hard disk. In other words, CRC errors while accessing PST are not indicative of Outlook problems but are actually of issues related to location where PST resides. When PST gets corrupted due to such CRC errors, you will require restoring it from the most recent backup. In case of any backup related concerns, you should alternatively use Outlook PST Recovery tools.

As an example, you might encounter the similar error message while accessing your Outlook PST file:...

The most common symptom of PST corruption is that Microsoft Outlook loses the ability to send and receive e-mail messages. An Outlook PST can get corrupted for several reasons, from the simple unexpected shutdown to the complicated network file sharing. When these events occur, they usually result into data inaccessibility. Hence to restore the lost data, a user requires to apply the latest backup or a PST Recovery utility.

The further error message and scenario will help you realize such problems. Consider you use Microsoft Outlook 2007 on a Windows Vista computer. You install some updates and after this, you observe that when you click to read an e-mail message in Outlook Inbox, you cannot do so and receive the below error message:

“An unknown error has occurred. 0X80040119”

Further, when you click Send/Receive option, it reports the same error again.

Cause...

Microsoft Outlook reminders are scheduling components that can keep you alert at important events. The application shows a peculiar behavior when any of these items get corrupt, one of such has been described later. But if the corruption occurs together with PST file corruption, you need solution that might perform PST Recovery to recover pst file from MS Outlook.

For example, consider a case when you start Microsoft Outlook and receive an error message as below:

“Cannot start the reminder service. Unable to show reminders.”

The error suggests that the issues are related to Outlook reminders, which alone can be taken care of easily. But at times, you encounter this message in conjunction with another error like:

“An unknown error has occurred. 0X80040600”

With this error message, Outlook loses the ability to send and receive e-mail messages.

Cause...

The desktop ActiveSync is an application that allows you to synchronize Microsoft Outlook data stored on desktop PC with a mobile device, such as PDAs and Smartphones installed with Windows Mobile or Windows CE. Outlook on desktop PC stores its emails, notes, calendars etc. in a file called PST (Personal Storage Folder). For several reasons, you may sometimes observe a Windows Mobile based device failing to synchronize with Outlook PST. One of the primary reasons among them is corruption in PST itself, for which PST Recovery is required.

To elaborate such problems, consider a practical situation when you try to synchronize a Windows Mobile based device with a PC for Outlook items. The synchronization might fail with an error message as below:

“Active sync encountered a problem on the desktop Support Code 86000107.”

The similar behavior is observed each time when you try to synchronize...

The desktop ActiveSync is an application that allows you to synchronize Microsoft Outlook data stored on desktop PC with a mobile device, such as PDAs and Smartphones installed with Windows Mobile or Windows CE. Outlook on desktop PC stores its emails, notes, calendars etc. in a file called PST (Personal Storage Folder). For several reasons, you may sometimes observe a Windows Mobile based device failing to synchronize with Outlook PST. One of the primary reasons among them is corruption in PST itself, for which PST Recovery is required.

To elaborate such problems, consider a practical situation when you try to synchronize a Windows Mobile based device with a PC for Outlook items. The synchronization might fail with an error message as below:

“Active sync encountered a problem on the desktop Support Code 86000107.”

The similar behavior is observed each time when you try to synchronize.

Cause...

Viruses are self-copying programs that can infect your computer and its files. Among other reasons, virus infection is one of the most common one that can corrupt your data files and render them out of access. Outlook PST can also get corrupt for the same reason. Since PST contains your important emails, calendar entries, contacts, and other important Outlook items and PST Recovery becomes quite essential.

To illustrate such problems, consider the following practical situation of virus infection with your computer:

1. Your Windows based computer is infected from virus.

2. You start the computer in safe mode and run an antivirus software.

3. The antivirus software finds virus in Outlook PST file. To get rid of virus, when you try to delete or repair the corrupted PST, it prompts one of the below error messages:

“Error occurred during file deleting :Error 0x80040119.”

Or...