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Opened Dec 01, 2025 by Georgianna Badcoe@georgiannabadc
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What is the Alternative to ScanPST in Outlook?

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With Stellar's advanced inbox repair tool, you can repair and recover mail items from any corrupt, inaccessible, or damaged Outlook PST file in 3 simple steps. You may also split or compact a large PST file to reduce its size. While the ScanPST.exe tool may help you fix minor Outlook PST file corruption issues, the tool may not be able to repair severely corrupt PST files.

Outlook Inbox Repair Tools (Free & Paid): Fix PST Files Now

Stellar Repair for Outlook safely extracts mailbox data from corrupt PST files, saves it in a new PST file, or appends it to an existing PST. Besides PST, the software can also save the recovered mailbox data FixTechGuide email error solutions in EML, MSG, RTF, HTML, and PDF formats. So you get to afford a great amount of portability, as the data can be accessed in various programs. Further, the software can save the newly created PST file at any location on the system or network drive, entirely based on user preference. The Technician edition of the software can also export the fresh PST file directly to Office 365 and provides additional options to save in MBOX and DBX file formats. Microsoft Outlook is a popular email client among Windows users.

Split or Compact PST Files [Technician Edition]

ScanPST.exe is particularly an Inbox Repair Tool in Outlook. This inbuilt feature repairs errors from your Outlook data file. It scan all the bad sectors and removes the same to keep PST file healthy. However, in some cases Outlook INBOX Repair Tool stop responding due to various reasons. On the other hand, user wont able to contact or get support from MS Outlook properly.

How ScanPST.exe Alternative Works?

That is why third-party programs are there for advanced repair beyond the capacity of basic fixes. To resolve Microsoft Outlook Inbox Repair Tool is not Responding issue, you need to close Mailbox not Updating on IMAP the running Outlook application on your system and, after that, try to repair PST files. Furthermore, if you still face the same problem, sign out and sign in. It will close all running programs, and then you can use the Inbox Repair Tool hassle-free.

Steps to Recover PST by Using Stellar Repair for Outlook

Outlook data file (.PST) may become inaccessible due to corruption caused by the oversized mailbox (large PST), malware or virus intrusion, system or Outlook crash, etc.So, you need to ensure that your PST file does not exceed its limit because it is also a probable reason behind the ScanPST.exe tool not Responding.Fixing or resolving the "Microsoft Outlook Inbox Repair Tool is not Responding." error might be easy after performing the methods as mentioned earlier.Further, the software can save the newly created PST file at any location on the system or network drive, entirely based on user preference.However, for you to overcome this unfavorable situation, Microsoft has a free of cost utility called ‘Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe)’ inbuilt in Outlook.Whenever these warnings haunt your Outlook, it's a bright red flag that your PST file is compromised.There are many vendors in the market which provide you PST Recovery software.

You can download the software on Windows/ Mac Desktop or Laptop. Run the 'Stellar Repair for Outlook' software, and from the 'Select PST File for Repair' dialog box, click 'Find' to search for the archive corrupt PST file. One other solution to fix Outlook Inbox Repair Tool not responding is to uninstall and install the MS connection status shows disconnected Outlook application. I am Kiran Sharma, a Technical Expert in Content writing.

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