PST or Personal Storage Table contains information about your emails, tasks, calendars, attachments and so on. Outlook is one of the basic applications used to open your PST files.
Your PST files can get corrupted due to a host of reasons and you may not be able to access all the contents of the PST file using Outlook. It is then you look for alternate ways to read data from a corrupt or damaged PST file.
The need for accessing PST data using different applications also arises when your Outlook is not responding or there is no Outlook application installed on your system.
Here are few ways you can explore to read data within your PST files.
- Convert PST to text format
- Select the email that you want to convert.
- Click on File -> Save As.
- Now select the file type as .txt.
- Click Save or hit Enter.
- Convert PST to MSG format
- Just drag and drop the email that you want to convert to the desktop or any other location.
- You can use EditPlus or Notepad++ application to view the content of MSG file format.
- Save PST as HTML file
- Select the email that you want to convert.
- Click on File -> Save As.
- Now select the file type as .html.
- Click Save or hit Enter.
- Import PST to Gmail
You can use Google App Migration tool to import PST file to Gmail. You can just launch the application and follow the steps mentioned on-screen to view PST file data on your Gmail account.
Repair corrupt PST files using Hi5 Outlook PST File Repair
You can repair your corrupt PST file using an effective repair tool in the form of Hi5 Outlook PST File Repair. The software is a great pst repair utility and can recover all the attributes from your corrupt or damaged PST file.
With the help of this PST repair tool, you can repair password protected as well as large-sized PST files. It works well on all versions of Outlook. The tool is supported on all versions of Windows and Mac Operating systems as well.
How to repair corrupt PST files?
- Download and install the latest version of Hi5 Outlook PST Repair software on your system.
- Now click on Select PST File Manually to choose your corrupt PST file.
- Choose Normal Scan and select a destination folder to save your Output file.
- Now click on Repair to begin the repair process.
- After the completion of repair process, you can view the repaired files through Preview feature of the software.
- You can go to the destination folder to access a healthy PST file with all the contents still intact.
