Are you not able to open your Microsoft Outlook Inbox?

Don’t panic. The emails in your Inbox are not lost permanently.Such Inbox failure,  results in corruption of the .pst file. pst, or personal storage folder, carries details regarding all your e-mails, contained in the various folders (i.e. inbox, outbox, deleted items, sent items etc.). It also contains data about your contacts and calendar.

Some of the common reasons for corruption of the .pst file, are listed below,

Reasons for .pst file corruption:

1. Corruption caused due to exceeding  .pst file size limit of 2 GB
2. Corruption caused, when used over a network.
3. Corruption due to Virus attack.
4. Corruption caused inside the .pst file header.
5. Corruption caused while compacting a .pst file.

You can recover the lost/deleted Inbox emails from this .pst file,with the help of a powerful email recovery software.

REMO Recover Outlook (pst) software is the best suited software for effective email recovery.The software scans the corrupted .pst file, and recovers all the information into a new .pst file. The new .pst file is similar to the original .pst file. All the emails are recovered, with attachments, if  any.

PST file Location:

The following is the path where the .pst files are located on your computer.

• Default location of .pst file in Windows 2000/XP/2003 is, Drive:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
• Default location of .pst file in Windows Vista is, Drive:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

Follow the simple steps given below, to recover all your lost Inbox emails.

Steps to Recover Outlook Inbox emails:

Step 1: Run REMO Recover Outlook (pst) software, either by double clicking the desktop icon, or, by selecting the icon from the Programs list in the Start Menu.The Main window pops up, as shown in Figure a.

Figure a: Main Window

Step 2: Click on the button, or select the Select PST (.pst) option from the Toolbar, to select the .pst file that you want to recover.
Step 3: As you click on the Select PST (.pst) option, a new window is displayed, as shown in Figure b.Browse for the .pst file which needs to be recovered. Select the  .pst file you wish to recover, and click the Open button.

Figure b: Select a .pst file

 

Step 4: After selecting the .pst file to be recovered, click on the button present in the toolbar. As soon as you click Recover & Save button, a window to select scan type and the destination path, where the repaired .pst file is to be stored is displayed, as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Select Scan type and Destination drive

REMO Recover Outlook (pst) software  provides two types of options for scanning, namely, Normal Scan and Smart Scan. Select the Normal scan option. Click on the Browse button to select a destination drive onto which you want to restore your repaired .pst file, and click on the OK button.

Once the OK button is clicked, the application locates emails in the selected .pst file, and restores them into a new .pst file in the selected destination drive. Restored .pst file is similar to the original  .pst file that was corrupted.

Note: If the selected .pst file is not recovered successfully, use the Smart Scan option for scanning purpose. The Smart Scan option helps in recovering .pst files that are corrupted extensively.

You can then import the newly formed .pst file to Microsoft Outlook, and access your Inbox emails as before.

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