Why Microsoft Outlook PST File Corrupts? What is a 4GB limit?
What are the common reasons of outlook PST corruption?
What to do if have a 4GB Corrupted PST File?
Microsoft Outlook users store all their email, documents and other personal information in outlook. As time elapses, the user store more and more files and information in the Outlook PST file. By Default outlook create 1 PST file for every profile and this single file carry all those items that you are storing on the outlook. Due to this the PST file size increases and reaches to that extent that at last the outlook is unable to work with that PST file and show various kind of problems when a user tries to perform all the common operations. Day by day your outlook becomes slower and finally When it reaches to 4 GB size limit, it may either corrupt or damaged and inaccessible for Outlook.
There is also hardware as well software reasons for the possible corruption in PST file. The hardware reasons include:
• Data Storage Device Failure
• Faulty Networking Service
• Power Failure
If the outlook is closed abnormally and any kind of operation is still running in outlook then also the PST files corrupts.
The software reasons include:
• Incorrect File System Recovery
• Due to File System Corruption
• Due to a wrong or incapable recovery tool
• Virus and Malicious Software
Outlook 2002 and earlier versions of outlook has an issue of 2 GB file corruption and the outlook developers overcome this problem from outlook Express and later version. The size limit now increased to 4GB but the problem is still there. If the PST files reaches or crosses the 4GB limit then we got a 4GB corrupted PST file.
There are various tools made for this issue. First is the PST file splitting utility which is useful when the PST file is not corrupted. You can split big PST files into small files like a 3.8 GB file in to 3 files of size of 1GB and 1 of 800 MB. If you have 4GB Corrupted PST file then the PST splitting method is not right and you must need to use the tools for PST recovery and PST Repair.
Outlook has software named Inbox Repair Tool which is useful if the corruption is small but if the corruption is big then there is no other way but to use the PST Repair software. Many Data recovery Software companies have made their products which are capable to recover each single email and other documents from that 4GB corrupted PST file and store into new PST file. At that time you can also set the size of the recovered file so that you don’t need to split these files again. The PST Recovery Tool uses strong algorithms to recover and repair all the files and information from 4GB Corrupted PST file so use it if you are having trouble with your outlook.
