How do I repair Office 2010 Outlook.pst?

[wkimmerly]

I have used scanpst.exe to no avail. The error I receive is "An error has occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file".

I have done a system restore to a date a few days ago when everything was working fine. No change in Outlook behavior.

I have used the Outlook installation disk to repair Office 2010. Still nothing.

Help....

-Bill

 

[wkimmerly]

Also, I tried starting Outlook in safe mode and it still gave me the same error message about a damaged folder and could not open Outlook.pst

 

[HonorGamer]

Have you tried a complete un-instillation of Outlook, and then re install it?

 

[kegobeer]

If the pst is corrupted, uninstalling Outlook probably won't fix it, and doing a restore action won't either. Neither of those actions will change the pst.

You might have to find a third party pst repair tool, which unfortunately aren't free.

 

[wkimmerly]

Honorgamer: Yes, that did not work either

-Bill

 

[PooMan UK]

Have you had a looky over here pal How to use the Inbox Repair tool to recover email messages in Outlook Click on the + signs in the link for the different versions of office

 

[wkimmerly]

Inbox repair tool aka scanpst.exe doesn't work

 

[kegobeer]

Find a third party app.

 

[koolkat77]

Inbox repair tool aka scanpst.exe doesn't work

It should.

The inbox repair tool shows as not responding when repairing files. All you go to do is wait there for a few minutes till it says repair is complete.

And the repair time depends on the size of your PST file for how long it takes.

 

[richnrockville]

Winkermilly have you tried to do a repair from the control panel programs and features menu?

Rich

 

[kado897]

Right Click on the pst file and select Properties. Open the previous versions tab and see if there is a version available when it was OK.