Repair PST File By Using Outlook Recovery Software And Make It Accessible

MS Outlook emerged as most popular desktop email client with PST as its proprietary file format. Outlook data files contain large volume of data and are prone to corruption like any other data files. These files gets corrupted due to many known or unknown reasons and sometimes data gets deleted accidentally form the email or other mailbox folders. To prevent data loss due to corruption; the PST files need to be recovered and restored back on machine.

In the recent past, while working with the application, some of the files were deleted accidently; so I used Outlook Recovery software for recovery of lost data. The overall experience with the tool is summed up here in.

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My Expectations from the Tool:

There are some specific requirements that I was expecting to be fulfilled such as:

• Recovery of deleted data which is the foremost necessity.
• Recovery of some of the corrupted Outlook files.
• Data Restoration while maintaining its original formatting.
• Maintenance of actual structure of data elements.
• Data storage on machine while keeping its attributes.

What the Tool Offered:

The PST recovery tool offered the following features against the above-stated requirements:

• It recovered all the deleted data that was accidently erased from the mailbox.
• It helped recovering files that has been damaged due to oversized volume.
• All the data was restored in its original format on machine.
• The actual structure and composition was kept maintained.
• The mailbox components were restored with integrated attributes.

Additional Features Offered by the Tool:

It offered some supplementary features while recovering PST files and these attributes are:

- Advance scan mode to recover files as per necessity.

i. Advance Scan is performed on highly damaged data files.

- Offers recovery of selective items from enlisted components.

i. Select multiple items by clicking on the available checkboxes.
ii. Select entire folders to be processed in batch.

- Multiple Export options to select from as per requirement.

i. Export as PST
ii. Export as MSG
iii. Export as EML

- Attachments can be previewed in the panel itself.

When an email message is been selected, the enclosed attachments are displayed in the ‘Attachments’ tab within the tool panel and are exported to the selected file format along with the associated message.

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- Mail Filter’ feature to export specified period data.

By selecting this option, date particulars can be provided and instructions can be given to the tool for exporting that specific data only. This way, it will export data from the period specified in the ‘From Date’ column and to the duration mentioned under ‘To Date’ column.

- ‘PST Split feature allows dividing large volume files.

The feature enables splitting or dividing the large sized data files to be saved and restored into limited divisions. This way, the corruption that occurred due to oversized volume of the PST file reduces and data is stored in more organized manner.

- Naming Conventions while exporting to EML and MSG.

While saving data to EML and MSG file formats, the tool offers to save the files with appropriate names. This further enables to restore data in a managed way and offers more recognition to the files. Files can be directly selected while avoiding random search.

- Resultant files can be saved into selected format at any selected location on system.

The tool does not alter the original PST files and in fact creates new files for saving the recovered data. It offers the flexibility of saving these files at user defined location on storage media.

- The Outlook Recovery tool generates the ‘Export Report’.

This report can be saved in CSV format for future reference as it contains the source and destination location information of the processed file.

Benefits of the Given File Formats:

PST:

When this file format is selected to export recovered data; the mailbox components are saved in their original format. The data gets restored within respective folders where it was residing before corruption or deletion.

MSG:

This format is used to restore email messages only and saves single message per file. This way, the chances of data getting absurd are reduced to greater extent and proper manageability is offered to the files.

EML:

This is the widely used file extension and is supported over Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and many other Operating Systems. Moreover, it is applicable to emails data only and this way, the email messages can be accessed over smartphones, tablets, etc.

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Improvements Required:

As per my opinion and experience, the tool is well versed with all potential features that are required for recovery and successful storage of data. Therefore, no changes or alterations are required to be done. The developers of the tool have kept the GUI simpler and the recovery procedure is self-defined and quite straight-forward.

Final Opinion:

The tool helped me in recovering the deleted data which was the principal requirement. It also offered extracting data from the corrupted Outlook PST files. The additional features that the tool offers such as export to EML and MSG; splitting PST into smaller proportions; saving EML MSG files with suitable names; etc. serves as an add-on while recovering and restoring mailbox data. The performance and functionality of the tool is found to be efficient and accurate.

In addition, the availability of Personal, Business and Enterprise Licenses makes it more scalable as this way; flexibility is provided to choose among the given categories. The user can choose any license in accordance with its usage requirements and can test before purchasing the same with Trial version available online.

Based on the overall assessment and experience with the Outlook Repair tool, I would rate it 9.810.

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How to Repair Driver Issues for Windows Hardware Devices

Introduction

If you have any problems with your computer hardware, there is a possibility that the problem is resulted from driver issues since drivers are a type of software that acts as the middleman between your operating system and specific hardware components, such as a printer and monitor. If the driver is down, then the middleman is sick and cant convey the information correctly. That is why your hardware components dont respond.

This article demonstrated several methods that deserve a try to repair driver issues and make hardware working again.

Method 1: Restore Your Computer to a Point before Problems Began

Suppose that you do create a restore point before the problem showed up, you can restore your system to this point.

Start >All Programs >Accessories >System Tools >System Restore
Then follow the on-screen prompts to do the rest.



Note that this will restore all other settings and data in Disk C to the point where you created the restore point. So be careful if you have very important data that cant be erased in C.

Method 2: Uninstall Corrupted/Problematic Driver and Reinstall It

Another common way to fix driver problems is to uninstall and reinstall drivers.

1. Go to Device Manager and pull down the specific device driver.
2. Double click it to open the Properties window.
3. Click Driver tab and choose Uninstall.
4. Reboot after the uninstallation.


Windows will search for the missing driver and try its best to reinstall whatever driver it can. However, sometimes the automatic search and reinstall will fail due to various reasons. In this case, you may download and install specific driver from manufactures website or use driver download and install tool to automatically do this.

Method 3: Restore Drivers from Backup If You Just Right Made the Backup Before

It is always a good habit to make a backup, either for data, programs or settings, configurations because you never know when accidents will happen and you need the old data/programs.

Windows does not provide us with a built-in option to backup and restore drivers so you need a 3rd party tool to complete this. Try 100% free and easy-to-use tool DriveTheLife.

1. Download, install and launch DriveTheLife.
2. It will start an automatic scan of all drivers without advanced configuration.
3. If you need to backup or fix drivers, just go ahead. All the features of this program is free.
4. Now lets skip all that to backup and restore driver. Go to Manage board and you will see three options: Backup, Restore and Uninstall.


If you have made backup before, just click Restore tab and it will display in the available list to restore.
5. Restart computer and done! 

Thats all for what I will demonstrate in this article to fix driver related problems. Updating drivers and rolling backup driver are also methods but they are similar to uninstall/reinstall drivers and restore to restore point so I wont write it here.

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Windows 7 How to Repair Windows Update Errors

Microsoft Fix it:

http://support.microsoft.com/mats/windows_update/

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