subject: Troubleshooting For 0x80040116 Error [print this page] Are you encountering an error message while access your MS Outlook components? Is your PST (Personal Storage) file unusable with MS Outlook? These situations primarily occur when your PST is corrupt or damaged. Few main causes liable for the file damage are application malfunction, operating system corruption, header damage, and malicious software like virus. Data from a file can not be accessed if the file is corrupted.
To begin with troubleshooting this problem, you should first recreate your mail profile. Once the new profile starts working perfectly and you can access the settings of a new PST (Outlook creates a new .PST with each mail profile you create) and attach the existing PST file. If it works properly, corruption was related to profile and not with the PST file, which now has been resolved. But if Outlook behaves in the same manner as before, your original PST file is corrupted that you need to Recover PST.
Try to repair the PST using Outlook's built-in Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe). If this doesn't help, a third-party PST File Recovery utility is your answer. This software can scan your corrupted PST (personal storage) file and restore all file contents at a safe location.
In most cases, the file is repaired by following the above steps. However, if the tool fails to repair the file, then you need to turn to a registry cleaner which is the third-party software using effective repair techniques to repair those corrupted files after almost all logical corruption scenarios. Here, Topckit is highly recommended for you!
