Inbox Repair Tool - Outlook 2007
Microsoft's latest version of their flagship email client, Outlook 2007, is no less vulnerable to corruption problems than previous versions. In keeping with their original design, Outlook 2007 stores all of your information inside a single .pst file (usually named Outlook.pst), including all email messages, contacts, calendar events, journal entries, notes, tasks, etc. That means anything you create or receive using Outlook 2007 gets stored in one, big PST file. And if anything bad should ever happen to that file, such as getting damaged, or getting corrupted in any fashion, then you run the risk of losing all of the information it contains.
Microsoft's solution to the problem of corrupt pst files has been to provide a free repair program called the Outlook Inbox Repair Tool (also known as Scanpst). For most situations in which Outlook is not functioning properly, and the problem appears to be the .pst file, the first step they suggest is to run scanpst.exe to see if it can fix things. Unfortunately, scanpst is not very powerful and often fails to fix corrupt pst files. So if scanpst fails, you'll have to move up to better, more powerful pst repair program, such as our Stellar Outlook PST Repair.
Finding The Inbox Repair Tool On Your Computer
Microsoft doesn't make it easy to find this program, and its location varies across operating systems (XP vs. Vista, for example). The program also varies across versions of Outlook (Outlook 2000 vs. Outlook 2007, for example), so it isn't a good idea to download scanpst.exe off the Internet. Instead, you should always run the version installed on your computer. So be sure you know how to search for files on your computer or get the help of someone who does. Note that scanpst.exe is usually a hidden file, and you may need to check an option to search for hidden files in order to find it. Here are some directory locations where Scanpst typically gets installed:
Windows 2000:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Scanpst.exe
Windows XP
If you don’t have Microsoft Office installed, look here:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033\Scanpst.exe
If you do have Microsoft Office installed, look here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Scanpst.exe
or here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\Scanpst.exe
Windows Vista
If you don’t have Microsoft Office installed, look here:
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Scanpst.exe
If you do have Microsoft Office installed, look here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Scanpst.exe
or here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\Scanpst.exe
How To Run Scanpst.exe
Before you use Scanpst, you'll want to review and understand the basic process for using it, which appears below. Once you know how to find the necessary files and are prepared to make backups, follow these steps:
- Exit Outlook 2007 and stay out of it until all steps are completed.
- Locate all .pst files on your computer (search for *.pst).
- Make backup copies of all .pst files.
- Locate scanpst.exe on your computer and run it.
- Scanpst will ask for the location of your .pst file(s).
- Click the "Start" button to scan the file.
- Scanpst will then report the results of its scan.
- Select the option to make a backup of the scanned file before repairing.
- Click the "Repair" button to attempt a repair.
Inbox Repair Tool Limitations
If the Inbox Repair Tool was able to successfully scan and repair your Outlook.pst file then consider yourself lucky. Quite often this utility will fail to correct the problem. If you search the Internet you will find lots of users complaining that scanpst did not work, and wondering what else they can do. Because the Outlook 2007 Inbox Repair Tool is the only solution Microsoft provides, if it can't fix your corrupt .pst files then you'll have to look elsewhere. Microsoft has more information about scanpst.exe in their knowledgebase support article "How to use the Inbox Repair Tools to recover e-mail messages in Outlook 2002, Outlook 2003, and Outlook 2007".
Try Stellar Outlook PST Repair 4.0 For Yourself
Download our .pst repair tool and try it yourself on your .pst files. Click on one of the Free Download buttons to download the installer (pst-repair-t.exe) from our SafeCart system. Install the software and scan your system for corrupt .pst files.
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