Friday, January 11, 2008

OST and PST File Recovery

What is OST: - OST stands for Offline Storage files. It is file type of Microsoft Windows file associated with MS Outlook. It is the part of the MS Office product suite. This file is created by the application for the use of storing user’s mailbox data on the hard drive for offline use. These files are converted in PST for accessing your mailbox.

What is PST: - PST stands for Personal Storage files. It is a filename extension used with Microsoft Outlook files. These are the Exchange Server files such as mails, calendar and contacts stored in personal folder.

OST files are stored on the local hard drive and you can access (read/write) these files only with the help of Exchange Mail Server. This server change OST files into PST files and then user can access them through MS Outlook.

Data Loss in OST and PST files: - There are mostly two reasons of data loss in OST and PST files: -

  • In Outlook XP and earlier versions, if you store more then 2 GB of PST files on your hard drive then it may loss. It commonly causes Outlook to freeze up in use or while starting up. In this case user has only one option to delete the existing files and release space for further storage.
  • OST file is the copy of your mailbox locally stored in your local drive. If your hard drive is crashed or corrupted, then files stored on disk may loss.

In such conditions, file recovery is required, to change to use these file stored in your local hard drive.

OST and PST Recovery: - when data loss is occurs due to the drive overflow or crash in user drive, you need for file recovery software to recover these lost files. There is wide range of File Recovery Software is available in the market. You may purchase any appropriate software that may fulfill your requirements.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST repair software is such type of software that you can select for recovering your data. This software is designed to convert the OST files to PST files that user can use directly with MS Outlook. This software recovers all PST contents including mails, notes, contact and calendar.

This software recovers all folders, mails, contacts and notes and converts them to a usable PST format. With the help of this software you can recover your lost files easily without any high technical knowledge.

6 comments:

Alexis said...

Know good tool which works with outlook files-open .pst file,tool is free as far as I know,program works under Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista and all supported versions of Microsoft Outlook,will work fine for both experts and beginners, there are no any extra settings,program repairs more data, than other services, owing to its unique data recovery engine, developed by our engineers,can easily retrieve your mails, that could be lost without this program,will make a decision, which emails can be successfully retrieved from your mailbox,can preview analysis results during the next step, where you will be redirected after the analysis,retrieve all emails as a set of files in *.vcf, *.txt and *.eml format, that will be stored in any place you like,convert all documents to a file of PST format, this file can be opened offline by any email client.

Alexis said...

Yesterday I was in difficult situation all my password for Outlook were damaged and I used one tool-pst recovery password.It was the miracle,all data was recovered! And program composed it for free.Moreover utility could recover lost or forgotten passwords for the mail accounts and *.pst files of the Microsoft Outlook mail client.

Alex said...

There are many tool at my friend's home. But one of them he showed me. As he said this tool is quite good - pst password crackers. And solved all his problems for minutes and without free. The tool demonstrated me how it recovers passwords for your accounts, stored in Microsoft Outlook email client. I have been very glad today.

Jenny Lembert said...

To recover the inaccessible ost file one can use scanost.exe the inbuilt utility with Outlook, but most of the times scanost.exe fails to recover the OST file in such cases third party convert ost to pst tools should be used to convert an inaccessible .ost file into outlook accessible .pst file. Such tools are available online and are very easy to use and efficiently converts all the contents of OST file into PST file

Jenny Lembert said...

Recovering corrupt or orphaned .ost file is very easy by converting the .ost file into .pst file. Convert OST to PST tools are available to perform ost to pst conversion. SUch tools are capable of converting password protected or orphaned .ost file and supports all the latest versions of windows and MS Outlook.

Export OST to Outlook said...

Hi.

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