Repair corrupted 2GB PST file

ddblogs — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:39:01 +0000

Now-a-days the most popular e-mail program being used is Microsoft Outlook. PST files are the primary file extension used in Outlook. In Microsoft Outlook 97, 98, 2000 & 2002 (XP), PST files are formatted in ANSI (American National Standards Institute) format, and limits the size of Personal Folders .pst files to 2GB.

What happens if a .pst file exceeds the file size limit of 2GB?

If a .pst file reaches or exceeds 2 GB file size limit, you would not be able to access your Outlook emails, cannot send/receive emails or add any new data to it. Due to this, your .pst file gets corrupted. Outlook has no built-in way to reduce the size of a PST file that has exceeded the 2 GB limit. Even if you delete items from the server mailbox, the .pst file will fail to synchronize.

How to repair an oversized .pst file?

In order to repair a .pst file corrupted due to exceeding the 2GB file size limit, you need a PST repair software, that does not truncate the PST file, but recovers the Outlook data completely. REMO Recover Outlook (PST) software is best suited for Outlook recovery. This email recovery software, can easily repair 2GB pst file, and can restore the corrupted PST file with ease.

Restore PST files after Outlook Corruption

farheen — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:34:45 +0000

PST file corruption is very painful situation for organizations that exchange information and manage their work at a large scale using Microsoft Outlook. Outlook PST files are the most accessed files of an organization. Your system all the time performs read and write operations to it. Thus, there are chances that your PST file can get corrupt due to various reasons like, power outages, unexpected system shutdown, hard disk crash, Outlook not closed properly etc. Well there are other factors that can also cause PST file corruption like virus, exceeding file size limit, software malfunction, use of PST over a network and much more.

All the above situations make the PST file inaccessible. One of the most common symptoms for a corrupt Outlook PST file is that Outlook begins to run very slowly. It may take as long as several minutes to open or preview the contents of a message. Sometimes it Outlook just freezes up. In such a case if you close the application it will actually make the PST file corruption worse. Microsoft offers its inbuilt PST repair tool that is the Scanpst.exe. However, this tool helps in case of small corruption issues. Its fails to fix corrupt pst in case of complex issues.

Repeated recovery attempts produces files even more damaged than the originals. Thus, for preventing any further massive data loss of emails, considering Outlook Mail Recovery tool to restore PST file becomes inevitable. Repairing corrupt PST files with this best and efficient recovery tool is simple, convenient as user can restore PST file without any technical skills.

Disk Doctors Outlook Mail Recovery software is a secure repair tool that successfully repairs all the errors without any alteration in the previous contents of the MS outlook files. This powerful recovery tools uses high level of scanning to scan the corrupt file, diagnoses the cause of corruption and then repairs it accordingly for recovering email messages, folders, appointments, meeting requests, contacts, tasks, task requests, journals and notes in .pst files. It has the capacity to scan, repair and recover even the deleted items.

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Repair corrupted 2GB PST file

Restore PST files after Outlook Corruption