How To Resolve “PST file Fixed By Inbox Repair Tool Is Empty”

Error Symtoms

The PST file fixed by Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst) is empty or does not contain the wanted items.

Reason

Microsoft Inbox Repair tool is very useful for fixing PST file. But when it comes to tackling serious PST errors or compromise of file system due to a virus attack or a destabilizing application crash, the Inbox Repair tool has often come up short. Moreover its recovery success rate can at best be rated as average and cannot be relied upon to deliver in case of challenging scenarios. In such cases Inbox Repair tool fails to deliver desired results and hence repaired PST file is invalid. Sometimes it produce empty PST file while sometimes PST file is missing some items.

Solution

To fix the file more effectively and recover maximum possible items you need to use professional PST Recovery software. Such tools provides advanced utility to recover Outlook PST files as well as to extract entire emails and contacts from corrupted PST files. These PST Recovery tools help you to repair corrupted or damaged PST files; you can easily open and access your Outlook emails. These tools simply extracts all metadata from corrupted PST file and creates new PST file with entire Outlook metadata including emails, contacts, journals, tasks, to do list, notes and calendar.