| Microsoft Outlook is the de-facto standard for | | | | you unprepared! |
| office communication. A typical office employee's | | | | Power outages, black-outs and brown-outs are |
| entire workflow consists of tasks, contacts, and | | | | becoming all too common. A UPS can save you |
| email exchange in Microsoft Outlook. But what | | | | from power outages, firewalls can protect against |
| happens if one day a system crash happens, or a | | | | viruses and malware, and regular backups will get |
| hard drive fails, or some malware targets and | | | | you back on track if the unpredictable happens. |
| corrupts your Outlook data? Does this mean the | | | | But what if the backup is a few days old, and |
| end of the day for your entire office? | | | | you're in the middle of something important? |
| Are you betting on the chance that corruption is | | | | What if you cannot afford to lose several days of |
| unlikely to happen? Consider the following. In a | | | | work? Consider repairing the corrupt Outlook |
| typical office environment, Outlook PST and OST | | | | database to save you days of work! |
| files that contain all email, tasks, appointments and | | | | Outlook has a built-in recovery mechanism. If |
| contacts are the files accessed most frequently. | | | | Outlook detects corruption in a PST or OST file, it |
| Computers read and write to these files all the | | | | rejects the file automatically, not allowing you to |
| time during the working day, except for the lunch | | | | continue your work. |
| break. If there is one file that is likely to be | | | | Microsoft provides another level of recovery in |
| damaged or corrupted during a power outage, | | | | the form of a special Inbox Repair Tool to |
| that would be an Outlook storage container. If | | | | recover corrupt databases called ScanPST.exe. It |
| Windows crashes at the moment Outlook was | | | | claims to recover corrupt Offline Folders (*.ost) |
| accessing a PST or OST file, the corruption will | | | | and Personal Folders (*.pst). Unfortunately, this |
| occur almost inevitably. If that happens, Microsoft | | | | level of data recovery can only cope with small |
| Outlook will not be able to access that data, and it | | | | problems, and frequently fails if more serious |
| will report a corrupt database. | | | | damage is done to the database. Even worse, |
| Modern hard drives are made to barely survive | | | | sometimes its recovery attempt produces files |
| through the warranty period. Chances of hard | | | | even more damaged than the originals. Microsoft |
| drive failure increase exponentially after about 3 | | | | warns that using that tool can result in data loss. |
| years of use. Don't let a hard drive failure to get | | | | |