How to Recover Corrupt or Damaged Outlook PST Files

The Outlook email client is undoubtedly one of the most popular email clients in vogue today. However, the application can often crash or cause errors which leads to PST file corruption. In this article, we look at using DataNumen Outlook Repair tool extract all data from messed up PST files. 

When it comes to desktop email clients there is hardly any application in the market that even comes near to MS Outlook in popularity or its expansive range of features. In fact, Outlook is much more than your typical email client – it serves as a powerful information manager that contains well-thought-out features for task management, scheduling your calendar, and even noting down journals. To a corporate user, life is often incomplete without the Outlook application. From storing all the valuable contacts and emails to using the application for booking meeting rooms and resources – it is often a reliable workhorse that keeps life. Add to that, powerful CRM add-ins have made Outlook one of the most popular business tools for marketing and sales outreach.  

The Outlook application can Crash leaving your Hanging High and Dry

With Outlook application typically containing a treasure trove of business data, one would expect the application to work flawlessly without any errors. However no software is perfect and Outlook also suffers from several flaws, the direst of them is the corruption of PST files.  PST corruption is not to be taken lightly at any cost. Imagine a situation where you suddenly find all your contacts and email missing. For many users, it can leave them stuck without able to do any meaningful work. 

Outlook crashes and PST corruption incidents are quite common. From power outage and improper shutdowns to failure to sync with remote drives, PST files can get corrupted without any notice. Incidents of corruption are typically also noticed while performing software updates or installing add-ins. At times large data file size can too lead to your Outlook application freezing up and corrupting the underlying data. File size related errors are all too frequent if you are using an older version of Outlook which incidentally many small businesses still do. 

Recover your Critical Email Data with DataNumen Outlook Repair Application

In case you land up with a corrupted PST file, just get hold of the powerful DataNumen Outlook Repair utility to repair Outlook PST files and get back all your data with effortless ease. The tool is designed to extract data from different media types including removable media and virtual drives. It is by far the most advanced PST tool you will find in the market with the capacity to handle large PST files with a size in excess of 2GB and break the recovered file into smaller parts. It has the capacity to bring back data present in temporary files and even recover data from network drives. In case you have a whole set of corrupt PST files to recover, you can use the Batch Recovery option to retrieve all data at once.

Limitations of Other Tools

At times one may be tempted to use the SCANPST tool from Microsoft to recover corrupted Outlook files. However, it often does a partial recovery or simply fails to restore your corrupted files. It is advisable to rely on an effective tool like DataNumen Outlook Repair to make a complete recovery. The best part, this versatile software can recover all Outlook data elements from embedded objects to emails created in HTML format.

Christophe Rude
Christophe Rude
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