How to Recover Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and 2010 Inbox Email Messages with the Inbox Repair Tools (scanpst.exe)

You are reading this article because you have been looking for how-to guides and repair tools to fix your Outlook Inbox problems, for example, to use Outlook Inbox Repair Tool to restore folders and items from a deleted or corrupted Personal Folders (.pst) file or offline folder (.ost), and fix Microsoft Outlook fatal startup error message 80040818, 0×80040116 or 0×80040119.

This article applied to the following Microsoft Office Outlook problems:

• When you are running the repair tool Scanpst.exe, it fails with fatal error code: 80040818.
• When you are scanning PST files, there are still many errors detected in Outlook 2007 or 2010, though already been fixed in previous Outlook versions.
• The Inbox Repair Tool Scanpst.exe stops responding during repair process and the repair couldn’t proceed.
• The Outlook.pst cannot be accessed with unknown error code: 0×80040116 and 0×80040119.
• The PST files reached the maximum size allowed and unable to use Personal Folder File when it is exceeding the 2 GB size limit.
• There is no Internet connection or remote server responded because the target machine actively refused it.
• The operation timed out waiting for a response from the receiving (POP) server error message codes 0x8004210a, 0x800ccc15, 0×80042108, 0x800ccc0e, 0x8004210b, 0x800ccc0b, 0x800ccc79, 0x800ccc67, 0×80040900, 0x800ccc81.

What is Scanpst.exe

Scanpst.exe is released by Microsoft Office team to recover your Outlook Inbox Email in case that the .pst files were missing, corrupt or infected with virus. Microsoft Office Outlook stores all of your information into a PST file, including any email messages, contacts, calendar events, journal entries, notes, tasks, etc.

However, the well-known bugs of Scanpst.exe may lead to unknown error messages like 0X80040600 error, or even make things worse by damaging your backup .pst files. In that case, you might lose all of your Outlook information. Another big issue of Scanpst.exe is unable to solve the problem of a .pst file being corrupt if it had exceeded the file size limits for PST files.

How to Use Scanpst.exe to Recover Office Outlook Inbox Emails

STEP 1: Free download and install Windows Outlook PST Repair Tool.
STEP 2: Run the Inbox Repair Tool to diagnose and repair errors.
STEP 3: Recover the repaired items.
STEP 4: Recover repaired items from the backup file.

How to Recover Outlook Files

To restore folders and items from a deleted or corrupted Personal Folders (.pst) file or offline folder (.ost), please follow these 3 steps below,

STEP 1: Free download and install Windows Outlook PST Repair Tool.
STEP 2: Select PST file to Repair and then click Start.
STEP 3: Select the destination folder to save the PST file.