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What is the solution when scanpst.exe is not responding?
How overcome form corruption of PST file?

Whenever Outlook not responding and user get message to use Scanpst exe to repair, user run scan pst to repair corrupt PST file and this solve the problem and user once again able to access Outlook. It is a single executable program which run Inbox repair tool program to repair corrupt PST file. Microsoft has provided this free repair tool to fix the normal corruption issue in .pst file and make outlook run smoothly. It also save data store in it. But sometimes user feel that in middle of repair process scanpst exe not responding and it leaves you with error message and corrupted PST file.

Whenever PST file get corrupted due to any reason, it is recommended to run inbox repair tool to fix this issue. To do this run scan pst, locate corrupted .pst file. Tool scan .pst file, find error and then repair it. It proceeds through its 8 Phases followed by “Repair” sequence. It is very long process. It start very comfortably to repair .pst file, but sometime after a long time with repair process, Repair window hazed over in white and with word—“Not responding”. This is really an irritating situation. Most of the use try to run it 3 to 4 times but the result was same.

What is the reason that Scanpst exe not responding and what is the solution?

There are some reasons which make inbox repair tool fail or not responding in the middle of process. First that, the PST file which you used to repair is oversized, means it is very big file. Inbox repair tool scapst.exe is not able to repair .pst file which is more than 2GB. Other reason could be that amount of corruption is more, means data is severely corrupted. Other simple reason would be either Outlook is not installed properly or you haven't closed all outlook programs / file before scan or repair process.

First of all properly close all programs and file of Microsoft Outlook and then once again try to run scanpst.exe. If this also gives the same response then check the size of your .pst file and if it oversize then try to reduce the size of PST file and for that you can use crop utility for PST and OST. Tool will deleted some file to reduce the size of PST file and then try to run Inbox repair tool. But this is not good option as you will lose some data from PST file. If PST file severely corrupted then Inbox repair tool is not able to fix this issue and consistently give you error message. Still PST file is corrupted and affected.

So the last solution with you is to use third party Inbox repair tool scanpst exe. Unlike Microsoft scanpst, it is designed with the advanced and powerful program which will help you to repair corrupt PST file without considering much about the reason of corruption or amount of corruption. It thoroughly scans .pst file, find error and then repair it. This is do it yourself tool which is designed with simple intuitive user interface which make this an easy process and also with lots of features which make repair process easy and fast.