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Learn How to Repair Your PST File Free

A .The pst file is the file that contains almost all your Outlook information. This singal folder holds almost all your information including e-mails, contacts, lists, calandar and notes. Because your PST file contains so much info you need to know how to recover it and repair it if need be. Imagine how frustrated you would be if you lost all this critical date just like that. Read this article to learn how to PST File Repair.

Unlike with Outlook Express where all of the folders are separate files, in Outlook all of your email, contacts, calendar info, notes, and tasks are contained in a single .pst file. For many different reasons the PST file can become corrupt, often times larger pst files seem to be at greater risk. If this happens, don’t panic. There are several ways you can repair the .pst file.

The first thing you should do is to make a backup of the .pst file. Don't wait another day, backup your PST file right this second so you won't have to worry about lost data. Depending on how often your data changes and how important it is will determine how often you will want to back it up, but back it up. In Windows Explorer you should copy the Outlook PST file to an external thumb drive or back it up online.   Better yet check out this Online Vista Back article.  you can have a full backup of your computer online so you never have to worry about this.  Your .The pst file location will varry but for most people it can be found at drive:Documents and SettingsuserLocal SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook. If your .pst file becomes corrupt, you can use Data file Management on the file menu to remove and replace the .pst file with the backup, or simply drag the backup file back into place. Please notw that Outlook will have to be closed for you to manually backup the pst file or to replace it with another.

But if you need to know how to PST File Repair, the first thing to try is the Inbox Repair Tool. The name of the free built in repair tool is called scanpst.exe and can be found by doing a search or using Windows Explorer and going to a location similar to drive:Program FilesCommon FilesSystemMapiLocaleID and titled scanpst.exe.exe. Note that LocaleID is specific to your computer and will be a number. Browse there from your Start, Run menu and click OK. Even if you have a backup, choose the option to make a backup before repairing.

Once the repair tool gets done running it will prompt you telling you if it was able to make hte repair or not. If not, you will need to use your backup copy or download a commercial PST repair tool. Many of these are very good, and a lot of them are try before you buy, so you can make sure that they work before you purchase them. The main part of this article is to get you to backup your PST file and all your important documents, we do also cover some free pst repair methods as well.

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