When you try to open any file in outlook itsometimes fails to open and you encounter an error messages which says, “An unexpected error prevented access to this file”.  Then, probably you have come across a corrupted or damaged outlook inbox. When this happen Outlook refuses to open any file and you cannot access any emails, contacts or other personal data associated with the account. Well there is another error that might be displayed, such as “Outlook.pst can not be accessed- 0×8004011″ here the PST file is corrupted and you will have to repair PST files in order to view your emails again. You can find more information on Outlook errors and their solutions here.

In case of outlook corruption, your emails, notes, contacts, journals, calendars, tasks and other data that is physically present there, but you can’t open any of the Personal Storage folder of your Outlook email account . Outlook data corruption can occur for several different reasons and there a couple of different methods for fixing them. Let us discuss them.

Since your PST file is stored locally on your hard drive, it may happen that due to any error in the hard drive that your Outlook is not opening up. In such a scenario, first use ScanDisk to check the disk for errors. ScanDisk will checks your system hard drive for errors and repairs them. The errors found in the hard drive are caused by a number of reasons like system crashes, applications that have been improperly closed and the existence of harmful programs such as viruses.

If the problem is not with your hard drive, then try using the Inbox Repair Utility. Microsoft’s solution to the problem of PST file corruption is called the Outlook Inbox Repair Tool also known as Scanpst. It comes with Microsoft office. It is automatically installed with Microsoft office installation options depending on your operating system. This utility works around the PST errors and other minor errors. After completing the process of scanpst.exe, try to open the files again. If you still get the same error message, then the error message mentioned above is very hard to manage using scanpst.exe as it occurs due to severe and harsh PST corruption.

Regardless the causes of this problem, at this point of time, to fix the problem you have to grab hold of a third party program. PST recovery can be carried out by repairing and restoring the damaged PST file. REMO Outlook Mail Recovery is very a powerful and advanced Outlook Inbox Repair Tool, which can handle even the severe PST file corruption scenarios easily. The software supports all outlook versions and can be easily download from Internet. No prior technical knowledge is required to use this software. Evaluation version gives you a fair idea on chances of the results that the full version might deliver. It has the ability to scan, repair and recover even the deleted items.