Inbox Repair Tool Fails To Repair PST File Due to Internal Errors

Corruption is a common problem with application files including PST file Microsoft Outlook. Corruption prevents you to access data from the file and thus cause critical data loss situations. To overcome these problems, you are required to opt for PST Recovery.

To repair corrupted PST file, Microsoft Outlook provides an inbuilt utility, which is known as scanpst.exe or Inbox Repair Tool. It examines the damage PST file, finds the error and then correct them. In some corruption scenarios, it can help you in getting your valuable data recovered.

Although, Inbox Repair Tool is helpful in some cases but it does not work in all cases of PST corruption. Sometimes when you try to repair PST file using this utility, you might come across the following error message and the process fails halfway:

“Internal errors were found in this file. They must be repaired for this file to work correctly.”

With this error message, the repair process fails and the file remains corrupted. It does not let you access data until you perform PST Recovery to repair it.

Grounds of this problem

You may face this behavior of Inbox Repair Tool when you scan a Microsoft SharePoint Team Services folder which is synchronized with default PST file. The scanpst.exe tool examines only for standard Microsoft Outlook folder, including Deleted Items folder. The Microsoft SharePoint Team Services PST file does not contain Deleted Items folder, thus Inbox Repair Tool gives this error message.

The Inbox Repair Tool may also fail due to serious corruption to the PST file. This tool can not handle the serious corruption issues like corruption due to virus attack, missing file objects and other reasons.

Resolution

You can fix this problem by repairing PST file using third party tools, known as PST Recovery Software. These software are particularly designed to handle even the severe PST corruption issues. They work in most of the corruption scenarios.
These software have right graphical user interface and thus allow you to easily recovery all of your PST objects including emails, notes, journal, tasks, contacts, calendar entries and other personal information. These PST Recovery Software save the recovered file in .PST format that can easily be imported in Microsoft Outlook to use it.

Outlook PST Repair is the best ever made and the most powerful PST file Recovery tool that can repair damaged PST file in the majority of corruption scenarios. It works well with Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It is compatible with Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 and NT4 (SP6).

Version Incompatibility and PST Corruption Issues in Outlook require PST Recovery

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Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and 2007 are advanced versions of MS Outlook. The have different file structure and provide Unicode support and thus do not have file size limitation for PST. For this reason, a number of Outlook users might plan to upgrade for these later versions. But in some situations, version incompatibility issues might occur that result into serious inconsistencies. These problems might cause PST file corruption and critical data loss. At this point, you are required to PST Recovery to gain access of your mission critical data.

In a practical scenario, when you attempt to import the PST file (Personal Folders file) into Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or 2007 from earlier version, the PST file could not be imported and it become inaccessible or unusable. Furthermore, you might come across that might be similar to the following one:

“Personal Folders
Properties for this information service must be defined prior to use.”

After this error message, when you click OK button on the error message dialog box, further error message errors, which states:

“Microsoft Outlook
The file path\filename.pst is not compatible with this version of Personal Folders information service. Contact your administrator.”

At this point, all of your significant emails, notes, contacts and other PST file objects become inaccessible. In order to gain access of these items, you need to find out the cause of this behavior and carry out Outlook PST Repair by sorting it out.

Root of the problem

This behavior of Microsoft Outlook might take place when you try to import the PST file of an earlier version into Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. The Outlook 2003 supports multilingual data and the PST files are in Unicode format. The PST files of earlier version, such as Outlook 2002, 2000 and 98, do not support multilingual data and are not in Unicode format.

How to resolve version incompatibility problem in Outlook?

In order to sort out this problem and import Outlook PST file into earlier or later versions first save the PST file as the PST file of Outlook version in which you are trying to import. After that, export the Outlook PST file, which is compatible to earlier or later versions of Outlook. Then import the new PST file into particular version of Microsoft Outlook.
In order to save your Outlook PST file and export or import it, follow underwritten steps:

- In Microsoft Outlook, point new in File menu and then select the Outlook Data File.
- In New Outlook Data File dialog box, select appropriate version of the PST file and then click OK button.
- In Create or Open Outlook Data File dialog box, name the new PST file and then save the file to desired location such as Windows Desktop.
- Click OK button for closing Create Microsoft Personal Folders dialog box.
- You will see a new PST file in Navigation Pane in Outlook. Select it and then click Import and Export in File menu.
- Select Import from another program or file and click Next.
- Select Personal Folder File (PST) and click Next.
- Select Browse to choose PST file, which you want to export and click Open and then Next.
- In Select the folder to import from window, click Personal Folders.
- Select Include Subfolders check box.
- In Import items into same folder in box and then click PST file that you saved earlier on your drive and click Finish.
- Click OK when you get below message: “You are importing data to a location that does not fully support Unicode. To avoid loss of multilingual data, it is recommended that you choose a location that supports Unicode, such as a Microsoft Office Outlook Personal Folders File.”

Although, the above method might help you to successfully import or export the PST file, but in some situations the version incompatibility might cause serious PST corruption and data loss situations. In such situations, you need to repair and restore damaged PST file using PST Recovery Tool to get your valuable data back.

This is best possible with the help of powerful and advanced third party applications. They are particularly designed to effectively scan damaged PST file and successfully recover PST file. These tools are completely easy and safe to use.

Outlook PST Repair is the most effective and advanced Recover PST tool to handle all sorts of PST corruption situations. It works well with Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 and NT4 (SP6).