Inbox Repair Tool Fails to Repair PST file

Published by Jacob Martin on June 14, 2014

PST file is the most important for Outlook users. Any sort of corruption in PST file can hamper the proper functioning of your Outlook. So it is always advised to have a proper and recent backup of PST file so that if you lose your data you can easily imprint it from the recent backup. The most heartbreaking situation of outlook users when they don’t have a proper backup and they are unable to access their outlook to due to corruption. But we are lucky enough that outlook provide a built in repair tool that can fix the corruption issue in your PST file. You can easily repair your corrupt PST file by using Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe). But in many situations this inbuilt repair tool fails to repair the corrupt PST file just because of its various limitations.

Below you have few situations in which the inbuilt Inbox repair tool fails to repair your PST file.

• It fails to repair the file that is 2GB or exceed 2GB limit.
• It fails to resolve the Outlook error message: Unknown error “80040801”.
• It can repair only the minor issues like Header corruption in PST file.
• It cannot repair the file if corruption level is severe.
• Accidentally or intentionally deleted are unrecovered by this repair tool
• It takes long time to repair the corrupt PST file.
• It fails to indentify the corruption issue in PST file after scanning it.

If your Inbox Repair Tool fails to repair the corrupt PST file then you might face the following errors:

• The inbuilt Inbox Repair Tool fails to identify the file xxxx.pst.
• An unforeseen error stopped accessing this file.
• ScanDisk (Inbox Repair tool) hangs and doesn’t perform the repair.
• The PST file repaired by the ScanDisk (Inbox Repair tool) is empty or doesn’t have the needed items.
• Due to some internal system errors the Inbox Repair Tool fails and at such situation you will find an error message: “Internal errors were found in this file. They must be repaired for this  file to work correctly”.
• When you open PST file that is 2 GB in Outlook 2002 and previous versions you will get an error message: “Properties for this information service must be defined prior to use”

If you use Inbox Repair Tool to fix this issue then you get the following error message in your Outlook:

If you try to fix this PST issue using Inbox Repair Tool then, it will fail and gives the error:

“An error has occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file.”

Some common error messages that indicate the failure of inbuilt Inbox Repair Tool are:

• Cannot access your PST file
• You will find Unknown error 0×8004018
• Client error: 0×80040600 in your PST
• Unable to PST file
• Cannot find the file path

Though the inbuilt Inbox repair tool is a great utility but sometime users find them helpless if they are unable to recover their file. But now you need not to worry if the inbuilt repair tool fails to help you then you can use a third party repair tool that is capable of resolving any sort of corruption issue in your PST file. Outlook PST file Repair Tool can easily repair and restore the corrupted, damaged or inaccessible PST file with ease. It is very easy to use and doesn’t need any technical skill for the person to operate it.