Archive for the ‘Repair Software’ Category

Complete guide to resolve Outlook failed to start correctly last time error

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Sometime while using Outlook application users have to encounter with various annoying problems. In most of the cases these problem arise because of the PST oversized, corruption of PST file, virus intrusion and others. To make the Outlook application fast, reliable and simple most of the Outlook users install Add-in. Many a time, due to installing add-ins Outlook application fails to start and prompt Outlook failed to start correctly last time error message while trying to restart. It appears in the following manner: (more…)

Repair PST File Corruption after Running Windows

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Windows error checking tool is provided by Microsoft to facilitate scanning of the selected hard drive of Operating System to find out and to resolve the issues related to its bad sector and occurrence of several system errors. It is an automated tool that automatically finds and fix out the errors of system.

The storage area of hard drive is being frequently used and due to this reason bad sector begins to take place on the storage space so, it is required to fix the problems associated with it, or else hard drive bad sectors gets corrupted and inaccessible to the user.

Since, error checking tool of Windows protects stored data of hard drive against unexpected loss and also helps in repairing hard disk’s bad sector. Nevertheless, sometimes this automated tool gets incapable and as in consequences of its failure it might damage several important data including Outlook PST files.  Subsequent to the process of execution of Windows error fixing tool the PST file size of PST reduced from its original size to 0 KB. When your PST file becomes corrupted you might encounter several PST error messages, as follows:

  • “The xxx.pst file cannot be opened.”
  • “Outlook can’t be accessed”,
  • “Outlook.pst cannot be accessed – 0×80040116” and many others

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Resolving “scanpst.exe fatal error 80040818”

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Scanpst.exe is outlook provided utility to fix PST file corruption and is efficient enough in doing so. As implied from its name itself it scan the damaged Outlook PST files tries to repair and resolve existing issues. The inbox repair tool checks the directory of PST file structure and also analyses its equivalent header for fixing the errors observed. The tool is found to fail in some of cases as such the file remains corrupt and inaccessible. (more…)

Solve out “error in background synchronization” in outlook 2010

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

The superb compatibility of outlook 2010 and vista system is amazing. The users efficiently conduct their work without any hindrance which was arising in earlier versions of outlook.

Then also some of the vista users have to face problems while accessing various functions within the outlook 2010 on their system. The users which work on outlook in offline mode store their data in .ost file format which is afterwards converted to PST file format. The .ost file is a similar copy of data placed in the Exchange server mailbox.

OST files are needed to be synchronized with the exchange server by setting a secure connection with the server. The alterations in this process leaves not viable ost file that outlook cannot read. As PST files the OST files also contain any of the outlook data either mails, messages, contacts or documents.

Sometimes user realizes that this synchronization of outlook folder with server is not perfectly established and generates error message like “error in background synchronization”. This error messages are generated due to network failure and network related malfunctioning.

In such a case the OST files which get corrupted or damaged can be again recovered and repaired for further use when connection is maintained. The OST files can be converted to PST files and then the errors can be easily fixed out and if the OST files have been lost in the process of synchronization then those OST files can be easily recovered through repair PST software vista. This software is efficient in handling both PST as well as OST files of outlook application regardless of the problem associated with the files.

What are the steps to Recover DB2 Database Components?

Friday, March 19th, 2010

In order to recover DB2 database components you must follow the below gives steps such as –

Step 1: Bring, install and launch the DB2 Recovery tool. (note: ignore if already installed)

Step 2: Select from “Repair corrupt DB2 Database stored at default location” and click “OK” button.

  • A pop up box will open having list of all DB2 database on default location.
  • Open the database by double-click on the name of the DB2 database.
  • All recoverable data will be pop up. You can “Preview” before recovery and select only necessary data.

It is the easiest way to recover the corrupted or deleted DB2 database tables and data. Another DB2 Database Recovery mode is “Manual selection of database for recovery”. Under its process you may also recover and repair DB2 database components.

How to dump Oracle Data Block?

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Frequently while doing instance tuning or SQL tuning, Internal structure of an Oracle Data block is important to know. In addition, when system does not show a considerable direction for troubleshooting, the accessing data and information from Oracle database may be inaccessible and tables may be block or corrupt. On that condition an advanced Oracle Repair tool can help you make accessible Oracle database table.

Dump shows following information which may be essential to locate the basis of problem of state of block:

  • list the contents of rows(Table Block) or index keys( Index Block)
  • contents of the block for the given datafile number and the block number
  • free extent pool in the undo segments header blocks
  • how the data is stored internally
  • extent map in segment header block
  • the SCN of the block (useful in complex recovery scenario)

In case of  dump the segment header block, use the below given command:

“alter system dump datafile 1 block 29081;”

Solve “Outlook.exe has generated errors…”? error

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

If you when try to start Microsoft outlook and get error message –“OUTLOOK.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created” and again when you start outlook you see this error, it means your Outlook get corrupted.

Outlook.exe is the main executable file. If it doesn’t find any outlook component or if they are damaged or corrupted then you will encounter with this error. If any component which are listed below corrupted then it becomes reason for this error—

User profile information
Personal folder (PST file)
Information services
Add-in

After corruption or damage it prevents MS Outlook to start.

To solve this error you should try to open Microsoft Outlook in safe mode. If it starts successfully in safe mode then disable all the add-ins. With this you can troubleshoot add-in corruption issue. After this restart outlook. If you are still getting error message then you should search and rename Extend.dat file.

If still error is coming, create a new profile in CW mode and IMO mode. If still you are getting error messages then it would be the problem of corrupted or damaged PST file.

To repair this you, find scanpst.exe (inbox repair tool) which comes with Outlook. If your PST file is severely damaged or oversize more than 2GB then Inbox repair tool fails to repair it and still you are with the same problem.

Now you can use third party outlook PST repair to fix this problem. It can repair corrupted or damaged PST file safely and conveniently. With the interactive user interface it guides you throughout the process.

Error in accessing and deleting messages in outlook after running scanpst.exe

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Scanpst.exe file is by default installed with outlook as a hidden file system setting to avoid its accidental deletion. It executes the inbox repair tool to repair PST files. It is efficient in fixing several problems related to PST corruption by analyzing the file structure. But, it is quite true that it is not able to fix all problems and when it fails to read and correct the file structure, there are fair chances that it further increases the problem rather than fixing it. It is because of this reason it is always said to backup the PST before running scanpst.exe.

Many times scan PST fails to do what it says adding vulnerabilities to the PST files. As for example, outlook at times recommend using inbox repair tool (scanpst.exe) when it finds corruption in Outlook PST files and accordingly following the method it scans and repair the PST as well.

But once you open that repaired file with outlook, it says “you do not have permissions required to access the file C:\path-name” or “errors have been detected in the file abc.pst” on deleting or accessing emails.

These reflect the inefficiency of scanpst which was not able to resolve corruption or has the set PST to read only attribute.

In this and such other situation you have to use outlook PST repair tool on the backup of the corrupted PST file. Its read only high end powerful scan is helpful in fixing the corruption. Not only this it repairs and recovers data by recreating the entries in a newly created PST file.

How to Remove Inconsistency from DB2 Database?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

As you know DB2 database is very popular, powerful and consistent relational database management system that stores various database and applications. It is a server enterprises edition that can run over various operating systems such as: Windows, UNIX, Linux, etc. Now a day, it is well accepted by various large organizations as well as for personal use because it is more safe and consistent.

To maintain its consistency various algorithms are incorporated and regularly all integrity, privacy and consistency of the data as well as DB2 database tables are checked. But due to logical or physical errors the consistency of DB2 database may broken and finally data become inaccessible or corrupt. The logical error may cause due to unnecessary shutdown the system, power-failure, shutdown the system while data is not saved, virus attack or software malfunction while in physical error it may be due to system cracked, damaged or broken.

This inconsistency may lead to major data loss so its quick solution becomes necessary for you. DB2 database is developed by IBM who itself provided various utilities and tools to resolve the inconsistency or corrupt DB2 database table. But the handling of those utilities may complex for you so the best solution will be Repair DB2 Database using any professional DB2 Repair utility. The Repair tool will easily repair and once again make consistency of the DB2 database.