How to find Inbox Repair tool

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Categorized Under - PST Recovery

When you come to know that your PST file is corrupt and needs to be repaired, nothing can better help than Inbox repair tool at initial stages. Inbox repair tool is an inbuilt utility to deal with corruption and accessibility issues of Outlook PST file. Here “initial stages” is mentioned because in most of the cases where PST file is majorly corrupt, you may fail to get desired results with this utility.

Outlook users, who are going to use this utility for the first time, may face difficulties in locating it. Information provided in this article will help them to locate and run Inbox repair tool in times of PST file corruption. Since location of the Inbox repair tool varies according to the operating system installed, one should look for the PST file location according to his or her Operating system.

How to find Inbox repair tool in various Operating systems

The Inbox Repair tool is an in built utility of MS Outlook and gets installed automatically with all Microsoft Outlook installation options.  Depending on your operating system, you can find Inbox repair tool at following locations:

For Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Windows 2000:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\NT
For Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows 98:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033\95

Running the Inbox repair tool

Once Inbox repair tool is located, you will need to follow these steps to run it:

  • Click Start, and then point to Find or to Search, depending upon your operating system.
  • In the Search for files or folders named box, type scanpst.exe
  • Double click the Scanpst.exe file to open the Inbox Repair Tool.
  • Type the path and the file name of the personal folders (.pst) file or click Browse to locate the file by using the Windows file system.
  • Click Start.

As mentioned before, Inbox repair tool does not prove helpful in all cases and in such situation, you will need to use a third party PST repair tool. Kernel for Outlook PST Repair is a considerable option when Inbox repair tool proves ineffective.