Comments on: Repair Tool of the Week: ScanPST

By: Bishop

Bishop — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:04:12 +0000

I’ve used this for the first time today. Client was well impressed. Thanks Bryce!

By: Computer Repair Royal Oak MI - C! Tech Solutions

Computer Repair Royal Oak MI - C! Tech Solutions — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:05:45 +0000

Definitely looking forward to the next time this makes me the hero! lol

By: Fahad

Fahad — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:20:39 +0000

Nice tool. Will be giving it a try.

By: sys-eng

sys-eng — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:31:42 +0000

I have no idea why Microsoft seems to hide this tool. Just about every pst file over 400-MB will get corrupted after a few months. It is the nature on the database. It is also fairly tolerant as long as you don’t try to retrieve messages that are corrupted. Running scanpst once a month will help keep the database from getting corrupted so much that it cannot recover.

You have to relaunch it for every scan. It will not allow you to select more than one file at a time.

By: Web Design Beach

Web Design Beach — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:16:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing this great tool, although it’s such a shame we have this tool, but i am sure not so many people know about it. I have come to point when i need so much time for Outlook opening, that i go do so many things in meanwhile. I will try it surely.

By: JRoss

JRoss — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:04:50 +0000

Great tool. It has saved my clients bacon more than once.

By: Tesla

Tesla — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:01:33 +0000

You can also manually corrupt a pst file by using a hex editor to delete positions 7 through 13.

What’s the benefit of this?

Well you won’t lose any data by deleting these positions out but it will allow you to run Scanpst on the pst file and with a little luck will pull out deleted messages!

Best of luck.