MS Outlook is the finest personal information manager used across the world. The most outstanding feature of Microsoft Outlook is that, it provides you an option to work offline, when internet is not working. When user works offline, it uses OST files or Offline Storage Table to stores all his/her Outlook emails and Outlook attributes. The changes made to the OST file will get updated automatically, once user get connected to the Exchange Server. Like any other file, OST file can also get damaged or corrupt due to many factors.
At such case, the first question which first strikes in users mind is “Is it possible to repair corrupted OST file? If yes! Then how to repair corrupted OST file”? All these common queries are having only one solution and that is “Inbox Repair Tool”. This utility makes OST file repair very easy and simple. It provides deep scanning of the damaged OST file to recover complete data of your Outlook profile on MS Outlook with utmost ease.
Mostly OST file get damaged when you tries to compress the OST file to reduce its storage space on the hard drive. OST file may also get corrupted when the compressing process is not executed properly. Power failure, synchronization error or abrupt system shutdown in between OST file compression process will affect the flow compression process and leads to OST file corruption. If you are going through with such situation, don’t get upset! As your damage OST file can be repaired by using inbox repair tool. How??? Continue reading…
Improper termination of Outlook application is the most common reason, which can damage OST file. Sudden system shutdown will close the Outlook application abnormally, due to which header OST file gets corrupt. It makes your OST file inaccessible and you will lose entire OST file data. To get over from this situation make use of inbox repair tool to repair your damage OST file. Using this software, you can repair both PST and OST file with utmost ease.
MS Outlook has inbuilt repair tool Scanpst.exe, which is commonly used to repair OST file. But, many times it gives out error when you trying to repair the corrupted OST file. This happens, because this tool has certain limitations. Beyond these limitations if you attempt to repair, it will cause further damage to OST file. Therefore, it is a fine step to use inbox repair tool and repair corrupted OST file. This application does not change the original damaged OST file. It only takes a copy of the damaged OST file and repairs it to make a new OST file.
In addition to this there are some more factors which can corrupt you Outlook OST file. Among them virus attacks on OST file is the most common one. Any sought of virus infection on OST file from the internet, results in OST file corruption. Whenever an OST file exceeds the size limit, then there are chances of damage to the OST file. OST file may also get corrupt, when stored on the bad sectors of hard drive. In all these situations, you can use the OST recovery software. It can also fix OST file which is password protected and creates a new healthy OST file along with all Outlook attributes. This utility supports all famous versions of MS Outlook like MS 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010. Hence, it can also fix OST file of Outlook 2003 damaged during the compression process, in just a few steps.
How to repair corrupt OST file? Download and install inbox repair software to your computer. Run the software. Choose open PST file option to open the corrupt PST file. Go for find PST file option to search for the corrupt OST file. Use Outlook profile option to select a specific Outlook profile if you have multiple accounts. Select the scanning method as per your requirement. Select the location where you want to save your repaired OST file and click on repair. As the repair process completes, have a view of repaired Outlook OST file.