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agelmei
Copper Contributor
Jun 14, 2021

HOW TO REPAIR PST FILES FOR FREE

I have a corrupted pst file, and the size of the file is about 20GB so I can't repair it with SCANPTS because SCANPTS can only repair 2GB max, how I can repair my outlook file for free? or can I import a corrupted PST file?

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  • Techinmay's avatar
    Techinmay
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 09, 2026

    Hey, AG​ 

    I cannot suggest any usual method, but I can recommend my personal tried and tested software as it helped me to recover my all corrupted Outlook file without even using Scanpst.exe. Like if you are open to use, then you can simply go to website called Pst recovery.net and from their download PST Repair or Outlook recovery solution.

    This tool literally saved my all data from PST file. Also like you have UNICODE file and good part is it supports boy ANSI or UNICODE.

    You can try it once. And if you repaired then Thanks me later.

  • Diane_Poremsky_MVP's avatar
    Diane_Poremsky_MVP
    MVP
    Jun 15, 2021
    If you have a Unicode pst, you have a new version of Outlook and you do have a copy of SCANPST that can handle large data files.

    You can try importing it but generally speaking, if you can't open it in outlook, you can't import it.

    You do not need a commercial pst repair product (questions like this always bring out the spammers pushing their products.)