Note: Once the data is fully copied, you must set the recently created data file as the default data file for Outlook. Now, select the ‘ Copy Folder‘ option to copy the data from the corrupt PST file to newly-created PST File.Under Home tab, select “New Items” click “More Items” again click “Outlook Data File”.

Launch MS Outlook > Go to “ File” tab > click “ New” > click “ Outlook Data File“.

If the file opens, create a new PST file and copy the data to it by following the steps below. You can open the PST file in Outlook from its File tab. If you can open the PST file, you should try to copy the data from damaged PST file to a newly-created PST file. Scenario I: When PST File Can Be Opened in Outlook What to do if the Inbox Repair Tool fails to fix PST issues? They must be repaired for this file to work correctly.” “Internal errors were found in this file. On some occasions, the Inbox Repair tool may send an error message like:

May fail to identify some corruption issues.

Consumes a lot of time to repair the affected PST file.

Unable to retrieve deleted Outlook emails (both intentional or accidental).

Cannot fix critical error messages, such as: “ Unknown error “80040801”.

Unable to repair severely corrupt PST files.

Unable to repair very large PST files (above 2GB size) easily.

However, this inbuilt tool has many limitations.

The Scanpst.exe is ideal for fixing minor corruption problems such as Header corruption. Scenarios where the Inbox repair tool may fail to repair corrupt PST Try the automated tool Outlook PST Recovery to fix Outlook errors and recover mailboxes from corrupted PST files.

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