Outlook PST repair

How to repair Outlook PST File

Sunday, December 14, 2008

How to resolve Microsoft Outlook PST error -0x80040116.

Some times when you start open outlook or try to open your personal folder (.pst) file. PST files or Personal Folder Files are used by Microsoft Outlook for storing Outlook data, including mailbox files, email folders, contacts or any other personal data related to Microsoft Outlook. You may get the fallowing errors like:

“xyz.pst can not be accessed - 0x80040116”
xyz is the name of your pst folder.

The problem may not be solved after running Microsoft Outlook inbuilt Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) and report that no problem found.

Reasons behind the Occurrence:

This is occurring due to .pst file is damaged or corrupted. Primarily, cyclic redundancy check error lead to the occurrence of corruption in the directory of these PST files. This folder may corrupt in a number of ways ranging from scattered to the improper shutdown of the program. Older versions of the PST format are limited to a 2GB (gigabyte) maximum mail file size, meaning that if your email messages, contacts, and appointment information combined exceed 2 gigabytes worth of data, Outlook may stop working. This is because older MS Outlook folders were designed to have maximum 2 GB in size. Outlook 2000 and older versions cannot handle PST files more than 2GB in size All the newly created mail files, either with new installations or manually created, use this new version by default. However, if you have upgraded your Outlook 2000 or earlier installation, no automatic conversion takes place and you are still vulnerable to this problem.

Ways to Fix it:

To overcome this problem Microsoft provides the facility of Cyclic Redundancy Check for keeping from these errors. Also offer more storage capacity in its later versions including Outlook XP, 2003 and Vista up to 20 GB.

In case if you were using Outlook 2000 or earlier versions, your PST index is corrupted, you may suffer a serious problem of data loss. You are unable to access your PST files that contain Contacts, notes, calendar and other important data. In such critical situations, you need to repair you PST files and make them accessible.

To solve your problems, pst recovery software is required. This software is helpful in repairing you corrupted PST files and restore them in original format so you can access them. Generally this software is support Graphic User Interface (GUI) concept and very user friendly. You can use this software for easy and effective PST file recovery without any high technical knowledge.

Advanced Pst Repair software provides robust and powerful recovery. This software restore all data of PST files including mail files, notes, contacts and local folders in their original format without changing the original contents of the files. This software scans for the corrupted PST files and extracts them and saves on their original destination or user specified location.

This software can also recover deleted PST files that are accidentally deleted by the user or deleted when you emptied the Deleted Items folder.

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