How to Repair PST File in Outlook 2007?

Microsoft Outlook 2007 is a fully fledged E-mail client which is widely used by business and home users. It contains advanced attributes like contacts, journals, tasks, folders, calendar items and more. All these Outlook info will be integrated in a single file called PST whose maximum size limit is 20 GB. Besides all the benefits, there also a disadvantage i.e., the Outlook 2007 PST file may get easily corrupted and becomes inaccessible.

For example, if the maximum size limit of Outlook 2007 PST file gets exceeded, then there are chances that, some of the info may go missing from it, or the entire file may get damaged due to which, you won’t be able to access to extract info from it. When PST file gets damaged or become orphaned, then you will face different error messages like “The file Outlook.pst is not a personal folders file”, “The Outlook.pst could not be found”, etc.

The PST file of Outlook 2007 may get corrupt due to following reasons

  • Incompatibility: Most of Outlook users may upgrade the current version of Outlook to its higher version to get benefited by advanced features. But, while importing existing PST file to the new Outlook version, incompatibility issue may arise due to which, the PST file might get damaged and you may lose access to it.
  • Power Surge: While accessing Outlook info or PST file, if your system gets abruptly shut down due to power surge or some other reasons, then there is a possibility for your Outlook 2007 PST file to get corrupt.
  • Virus Infection: The Outlook program is mainly used for sending and receiving emails. So, if user download an attachment file which is severely affected by virus, then it may also impact on Outlook PST file, and once PST file gets severely infected, then its file structure may get damaged due to which, you may fail to access or extract info from it.
  • Header Corruption: The header is an essential component wherein details like file type, size, location, etc. will be stored. So, if PST header gets corrupted due to some logical reasons, then you will not be able to access your Outlook profile.
  • Other Reasons: Bad sectors, abrupt termination of Outlook app, damaged drive, software malfunction, damaged file system, sharing and editing PST file over local network, OS crash, oversized PST file and more are the causes for Outlook 2007 PST corruption.

How to repair PST file in Outlook 2007?

When you come across any of the PST corruption scenarios as mentioned above, then you can make utilization of Outlook Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) for repairing Outlook 2007 PST file. But the disadvantage with this inbuilt PST repair utility is, it may not repair a severely damaged Outlook database file, also there exist a chance that it may further corrupt the file. So, it is important for you to use the most reliable and result oriented tool like Remo Repair Outlook (PST) to fix PST file in Outlook 2007 within a short span of time.

Why Remo Repair Outlook (PST) software?

Remo Repair Outlook is the best and widely accepted tool to repair PST file Outlook 2007. It has been built with powerful algorithms that effectively perform PST repair operation within few simple clicks. Remo Repair Outlook is the most relevant Microsoft Outlook 2007 PST repair software which is compatible on popular versions of Windows operating system such as Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2008. With the help of this Outlook 2007 PST repair program, you can even fix highly encrypted, large size and password protected PST files. This promising tool has two separate options to repair a PST file based on the severity of corruption. It is far better than the Inbox Repair Tool. Other than Outlook 2007, it also facilitates you to repair PST file of Outlook 2013, 2003 and 2000. Using this award winning application, you can even fix Outlook OST file. Remo Repair Outlook has potential to repair and recover Outlook attributes such as emails, notes, appointments, contacts, RSS feeds, tasks, calendar items and more from an Outlook PST file. It also helps you to find the PST file if you don’t know the exact location of it. Using its preview option, you can view repaired items via Outlook style browser view.

Guidelines to repair PST file Outlook 2007:

Step 1: To repair your Outlook 2007 PST file, download and install the demo version of the software. Click on the shortcut icon to open the program. Now click on the desired options from the main screen which suits your needs.

Figure 1: Main Screen

Step 2: After selection, go for the appropriate scanning options, i.e. either ‘Normal Scan’ or ‘Smart Scan’ and then click on ‘Browse’ option to select the destination location to save the repaired PST files. Click on ‘Repair’ option to start the repair process.

Figure 2: Choose Scanning Method

Step 3: As soon as the repair process gets completed, the tool displays all Outlook elements such as notes, contacts, calendars, emails, attachments etc.

Figure 3: Repaired PST File