Instead, you’ll have to open Windows Explorer and navigate to the C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14 folder (for Office 2010, at least) to find the SCANPST.EXE utility.ĭouble-click this file to open Microsoft Outlook Inbox Repair Tool.
As a very useful utility, you might think that SCANPST would be located in the Microsoft Office 2010 Tools folder within the Microsoft Office folder in Program files. It’s an official repair tool that is included in Office 2010 (as well as Office 2007 before it).
Had we not been able to repair those files, we would have been unable to access nearly half of the collection that needed to be reviewed for responsiveness in the case.įortunately, there is a repair tool for Outlook designed to repair corrupted PST files. I recently had a case where 40% of the collection was contained in 2 corrupt Outlook PST files. If that file is an Outlook Personal Storage Table (PST) file, that file corruption could literally make tens of thousands of documents unavailable for discovery unless the file can be repaired.
#OUTLOOK PST REPAIR OFFICE 2010 PASSWORD#
Perhaps key files are password protected from being opened and the only way to open them is to “crack” the password. Sometimes, however, critical data may be difficult or impossible to use. We like to believe that there will never be any problems with the data that we preserve, collect and process for eDiscovery purposes.