PST Repair Tools

  How to find Inbox Repair tool?

At a time when you come to know that your PST file has gone kaput, Outlook users often find solace in inbox repair tool. Inbox Repair tool is a built-in application that comes with MS Outlook to help users perform PST repair and resolve issues of damage, corruption and data accessibility with Outlook PST file.

But before you think of performing pst repair, you need to know how to find inbox repair tool. First time MS Outlook users need to locate inbox repair tool on their computer in order to run the utility and resolve issue of corruption. In order to know where inbox repair tool is located, you need to know the possible path where this utility usually is saved. Location of this tool varied according the version of operating system or MS Outlook and therefore, one should look out for the PST file location as per their operating system version:

How to find inbox repair tool?

Mentioned below are the usual locations where inbox repair tool can be found (as per the version of operating system):

MS Windows NT/MS Windows 2000- C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\NT

MS Windows 95 /MS Windows 98- C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\95

Running the Inbox repair tool

After you locate the exact path of inbox repair tool, you need to follow the steps given below to run the tool:

1. Click Start > Find or Search (as per your operating system version)
2. In the Search field for files or folders, type scanpst.exe and click ENTER
3. Double-click the scanpst.exe file to open the Inbox Repair tool
4. Type the path and the file name of the pst file or click Browse to locate the file by using the Windows file system
5. Click Start

Following above mentioned steps you will be able to run the inbox repair tool and repair the affected PST file. However, if you are still not able to restore the data, then the only way left to restore pst data is use of third party pst repair tool. Kernel for Outlook PST repair is an ideal tool to perform PST repair as it is devised especially to recover data from PST files.