Convert OST to PST to access corrupt or orphaned OST file

Enterprises require a collaborative communication environment. For this, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook work in conjunction. Since, some users might be working off-site where the connectivity with the company's Exchange Server can not be established, MS Outlook has the ability to work in Cached Exchange Mode.

The Offline mode or Cached Exchange mode Outlook creates a copy of the Exchange Server maibox onto the local machine and carries out the operations on the local drive. This is possible with the help of OST files. In order to send and receive new emails, and to update the Server mailbox with all the offline work synchronization is done between the Exchange Server and MS Outlook.

This synchronization can fail at times in lieu of unforeseen factors such as hard drive failure, attack by a virus or malicious software, abrupt system shutdown, improper Outlook termination or poor network connection. Failed or erronous synchronization will make the OST file inaccessible.

Moreover, accidental deletion of Exchange Server mailbox or any modification to the Exchange profile will render the Outlook OST file as orphaned. A corrupt or orphaned OST file becomes unusable causing loss of significant data such as vital emails, contacts and appointments.

A corrupt or damaged OST file needs to be repaired to make it accessible again. An inbuilt utility by Microsoft is the Inbox Repair Tool (Scanost) by Microsoft. This tool will scan the OST file, checking for all sorts of errors and corruption and repairs it. A major drawback associated with this utility is that it restructures the entire OST file and removes all those elements that become unreadable due to corruption. This means, cardinal information can be lost.

To carry out safe and error free OST recovery, one needs to Convert OST to PST. To Convert OST to PST, third party tools are available that support almost all major versions of MS Outlook and MS Exchange Server. By converting OST to PST the software will scan the OST file in question and recover all the items into a usable and Outlook importable PST file.

All the user mailbox items such as emails, contacts, notes, tasks, journals and calendar entries can be recovered as a new PST file. The userr also has the option to append recovered data into an exisitng PST file. One such amazing utility is “OST to PST Converter”. This product is the choice of millions of users across the globe to Convert OST to PST. The software is compatible with MS Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000.

A Real-time Scenario of Outlook Mail Data Loss and How to Easily Extract OST Objects to a PST File

I was using Outlook 2007 on my client computer. I had tons of contacts, emails, calendar entries in my Outlook data file. I was able to log on to the domain till last week. But there were problems with the login a few days back. So, I deleted my domain user account in the Active Directory and recreated a new account having the same name. I probably thought that the new account will automatically take the properties of the old one. It was now that I ran into a number of other profile issues and came to know that the Exchange was not running. When I started Outlook with the new account, it tried to create a new user profile and connect to the Exchange Server. But it did not succeed. It seemed that I had lost all my vital Outlook mail data.

I was not able to connect the old mailbox to the new account somehow. This issue possibly had one solution and that was converting the Outlook OST file to a PST file. Then, creating a new profile and getting all data in this profile. But this wasn't an easy job. I had to rigorously search for an efficient third-party OST to PST Converter software that would do the trick for me. I had already run the demo versions of various products, but none of them assured a complete conversion. I decided to contact a 'System Admin' for a quick fix to this. I narrated the whole problem to him. He doubted that my file was damaged as some of the tools had already failed to convert it. He suggested me to use an advance OST to PST Converter. He had a similar problem in the past with one of the employee's OST file and this utility was really helpful.

I took his advice and purchased this software after checking out its demo version. To my delight, the tool did it another time. It helped me quickly overcome this problem by safely extracting all objects in the file and restoring them to a new equivalent PST file. It allowed me to convert important messages, contacts, notes, journal, etc. without any slightest change in their original formatting and structure. I got all my emails back with their exact key properties, such as ''To', 'From', 'Subject', etc. Using this advanced OST Recovery tool, I also saved some of my emails as individual EML files in the system.