If you clicked “send” on that message you’ve been composing for the past 20 minutes at the same time your hard drive decided it had enough of your trope comments, then your PST may get corrupted.Īfter you fixed the hard drive issues then you might find that the whole PST was corrupt. Let’s say your PST was sitting on your laptop but your disk drive was having issues.

Viruses/spyware/malware caused by… you know what they’re caused by.īasically, the PST file is not saved properly for various reasons.

Disk drive issues caused by shock, overheating, or liquids poured directly into the computer.

You have a VERY large Outlook PST file which your IT manager keeps telling you to archive but you, “never have the time”.We didn’t spend a lot of time researching the various ways you can intentionally corrupt a PST file but, in general, PST corruption happens when: We tested all of these tools on a Windows 10 Virtual Machine from VirtualBox with Outlook 2013 and the 8.0 version of Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair. So a good part of the following article discusses PST corruption in general, how we tried to corrupt their PST file even further, and how we tested both the Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair tool and the native Outlook Inbox Repair tool.

And we didn’t have a control group to test against. The file was large enough that we didn’t have time to go through the individual messages to see if they all worked. To be fair, if a few of the messages were corrupt in their file we wouldn’t have known it. They also gave us a license key to export the repaired PST file and we installed it but didn’t use it since we didn’t have a corrupt PST file to repair or export. Stellar Phoenix supplied us with a corrupt PST file for this review at our request but when we opened it in Outlook 2013, before using their repair tool, it seemed just fine with no signs of corruption. If you’ve ever had a problem with your Outlook email not loading due to some sort of corruption then you’ve probably come across this tool in your search results. Today we’re reviewing the Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair tool which is used to repair corrupt Microsoft Outlook PST files.

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