Outlook Email Recovery

MS Outlook is most preferred and highly simplified email client used these days. Talking in technical terms, MS Outlook version 97 till 2002 stores Outlook PST files in ANSI (American National Standards Institute) format and have a size limit of 2 GB. Whereas Microsoft Outlook 2003 and above versions stores PST files in Unicode format and supports PST files more than 2 GB.

Corruption in PST files due to 2GB file size limitation arises in 2002 and earlier versions because of their size limitation. Once PST files exceed 2 GB limitation, they get corrupt or become inaccessible and need to be recovered. Apart from 2 GB file size limitation, there are so many other reasons that lead to Outlook PST files corruption. Other possible reasons could be improper shutdown of the system before exiting the Outlook application, virus attacks, and accidental deletion of emails, header corruption, and media corruption.

Whenever a PST file exceeds 2 GB file size limitation, it really becomes a major area of concern. When a PST file reaches or exceeds 2 GB size, it becomes corrupt and Outlook halts sending or receiving of mails and hence does not allow you to open or add new data to it. Any operation such as send/receive e-mails, make notes, set appointments, etc. don’t work at all.

One can try repairing the corrupt PST file using Outlook’s PST Recovery Software that repairs corrupt PST files. But mostly it fails to repair oversize files. Also, running the compact operation on an oversized file and running Inbox Repair tool may result in loss of important attributes. Microsoft Outlook does not have any specific in-built utility that can rescue the oversized PST file safely.

So in that case Kernel for Repair PST software helps you in retrieving inaccessible PST file that has been damaged due to 2 GB file size constraint. It is a high end utility that can repair a PST file greater than 2GB size with much ease and accuracy.