subject: How To Repair Pst When Scanpst Fails With Error 80040813? [print this page] An MS Outlook PST can get corrupt for different reasons, however, the most common being the file oversize issues. Outlook 2002 and earlier versions use ANSI formatted PST and impose 2 GB file size limitation. If the file grows beyond this value, there are fair chances that the file may get corrupt. In such cases, even the Outlook built-in tool, Scanpst, cannot work. You need to crop your file first in order to repair an oversized and corrupted PST.
To illustrate such issues, consider a situation when your Outlook PST gets corrupted. As suggested, when you try to run Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe), the repair operation fails. When you view the error log, it displays the Fatal Error :'80040813'
Cause
The Scanpst tool generally fails when any of the below mentioned conditions are true:
1) You are trying to repair an ANSI formatted PST (created with Outlook 97-2002) and the file size is larger than 2 GB.
2) The PST has been created with Outlook 2002 or an earlier version and you are trying to repair it with MS Outlook 2007 repair utility.
3) The PST is severely corrupted beyond the repair capabilities of the Inbox Repair Tool.
Solution
To solve the above problem, you should try to implement these solutions:
1) For repairing the oversized PST, you need to reduce its size first. To do so, you can use PST Crop utility that crops the PST by the user-defined size value. It is recommended to backup your PST first as this might delete some of your important email messages.
2) You can move the corrupted PST to a system running an earlier version of Outlook (Outlook 2002 or earlier) and then try to repair it.
3) If the above measures don't help, you need a powerful third-party solution to repair the damaged PST.
The commercial PST recovery applications can repair corrupted PST of any size and nature of corruption. These are graphically rich applications that allow you to perform easy and comprehensive file repair when even the Scan pst tool fails.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a reliable and advanced file repair utility for corrupted PST. The quick tool can Scan pst using powerful, yet safe, scanning algorithms. The software supports Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. It can restore all emails, notes, calendar, journals, and contacts from a corrupted PST in a new Outlook-importable PST.
