MS Office Outlook 2007 is a program which manages the personal information. It operates as a program by itself, and also can be used in combination with programs like MS Exchange Server or SharePoint Server. It is available as a separate application as well as a part of the MS Office. It is mostly used as an email application and also includes a calendar, note taking , journal, task manager contact manager and web browsing. The PST file uses a fixed-block-based allocation scheme, where the file is enlarged by a fixed number of bytes and also the file internally maintains information about the allocated and non-allocated blocks.
If MS Office Outlook 2000 or higher versions of MS Outlook can not be able to open your mailbox folders and it means that your Inbox folders or Outlook PST file may be corrupted, then you should use the Inbox Repair Tool for Outlook 2007 that are used by MS Outlook for storing the Outlook data, including mailbox files, contacts, email folders or any other personal data related to MS Outlook. If the size of the PST becomes larger, then there are more chances for PST file getting corrupted. This happens due to PST file size increases, Outlook required more and more resources to complete your tasks, so it may become slower and very much prone to errors. However, the Outlook database file can corrupt due to various different situations like corruption of the PST file header, the usage of PST file over the network, terminating the Outlook abnormally, encountering of errors during PST file compaction, virus infection, resulting in inappropriateness while improving the Outlook, and sharing PST file across the network etc. Corruption of MS Outlook 2007 PST file will make the Outlook data inaccessible.
When your Outlook PST
file is damaged or corrupted, then MS Outlook will try to automatically repair
the damaged file: when you start your Outlook, you will see a start window
telling you that Outlook is attempting to fix your mailbox folders. Therefore,
depending on the problem, Outlook may not be able to repair your PST file automatically
and you will not be capable to enter the main Outlook window, as a result you need
to try and repair it using the external Inbox Repair Tool. This Tool can only
work if your PST file was broken by Outlook itself or if it was damaged due to
hard drive problems. For e.g, if your PST file was corrupted by a third party
add-in, there are few chances for the Inbox Repair Tool to repair your mailbox
information or data.
The Inbox Repair tool (Scanpst.exe) is designed to repair problems which are associated with the personal folder i.e .PST files. The Inbox Repair tool is included on the first MS Office CD-ROM. Repair Outlook is a skillful third party utility to repair corrupted or damaged PST file of Outlook 2007, that can repair the PST file those have been severely corrupted. This is a comprehensive tool, which lets you to recover your lost Outlook data from corrupt PST file. You can download this tool and repair your corrupted or damaged PST files.