Tips to Solve Scanpst.exe Not Found Error

Scanpst.exe is the primary executable file that can run Inbox Repair Tool - a utility that can repair corrupted Microsoft Outlook PST file. When run, this tool examines the PST item headers and directory structure and tries to recover content of the PST within the file. Since the PST file is automatically installed with MS Outlook, application installation has a great impact on the working of Inbox Repair Tool. If Outlook installation is damaged or incomplete, you sometimes fail to run the tool also.




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Important facts about Scanpst.exe

This Microsoft file is known as the ‘Inbox Repair Tool’ and it is already embedded together with your Windows installation. Its size is around 37K and its sole purpose is recovering a corrupted Outlook PST database file. The tool is quite easy to use and instantly deliver results for the lost email data, the supported platform by Kernel for Outlook PST Repair are Microsoft Outlook 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010.The tool is able to perform recovery for entire data including emails, drafts, calendars, journal, notes, tasks, contacts etc. The tool also resolves issues that arise due to broken PST file which gets prone to damage when defined memory limitation is exceeded.

Selecting scanpst.exe download can be dangerous with respect to data loss because the tool often deletes the items that it cannot understand. Before, using this tool you must consider this negative aspect of this freeware. If you have lots of important data in your Outlook.pst file then you shall never use scanpst software.

Scanpst.exe is a very limited solution. In many cases it fails but since it is a free tool you better run it first but remember, first rule before starting a recovery process is always backup. You would not like to damage the file even more than the current state of it. So please create a copy of your PST file and let scanpst.exe try to fix the copy only.