Outlook 2007 is the most advanced email Client application as compared to its former versions; still the problem of corruption could not be sorted out of it as well. Outlook 2007 holds number of equipped features yet the basic design followed remains the same, meaning that everything you store & access using the application such as emails, contacts, notes, tasks and calendar etc is all stored in a single outlook.pst file. Thereby, in instance of any sort of problem taking place in outlook 2007 & its personal folder file, chances for loosing data from it is actually high.
As the instances of erroneous situation taking place in outlook is considerably high, Microsoft has provided it with an inbuilt inbox repair tool for repairing corrupt and damaged outlook PST. On account of this very reason, in instance of any problem taking place with outlook , Microsoft outlook recommends using the scanpst utility to get the issues fixed easily.
As finding the utility is not easy, users often download scanpst.exe 2007. But, actually download inbox repair tool 2007 is not required and you can search for the tool within your system itself. All you need to know is the version of your Windows OS and the outlook version being used, provided these are known, it becomes relatively easy for the tool to be located.
An important point to be borne in mind, in the context is that scanpst.exe 2007 is a hidden file and could be located by Windows search option provided ‘show hidden file & folder' option is enabled. Another easy way would be browsing to the scanpst location vista specified -
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Scanpst.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Scanpst.exe
Failure to find the utility, require you to do inbox repair tool scanpst download 2007.
After that you need to run scanpst utility and select the file to be repaired. Provided the process is successfully completed, corrupt PST would become re-accessible. But, in number of cases, it does not happen so because of the several limitations the tool has & your files would remain inaccessible or corrupt and would create number of problems with access.
Those are the instances in which PST repair software is to be used. It will fix PST files and save those at the user specified location which you could thereafter import PST to outlook 2007 or either select the option to save as new PST file.