Recover Data from a 0kb Outlook PST File

If your PST file is showing the file size as 0kb. and it becomes inaccessible then, you can still have chance to recover your all corrupted files.

Quick Solution

EdbMails for Outlook PST repair tool and to convert corrupted Outlook PST Files to PST. Also you can perform PST file migration to Live Exchange or to Office 365.

Why PST file gets corrupted?

• Due to Sharing PST over an unsafe/unsecured network. Anybody can customize your pst file.
• Bad Sectors in hard drive where the PST files are stored.
• Faults that appear during the executing the process to compact the data of MS Outlook leads to 0kb PST.
• System breakdown is another key aspect, which may damage your PST file.
• Also, Large files will be the cause for damaging the PST header.

Standard techniques to restore your data from 0kb outlook pst file

Manual ways of restoring data from a 0kb sized PST file.

1. Recovering data form backups:
   If you have the backup of your Outlook data file then, this will help you to recover your data from backup file. You need to create a fresh PST file, and import the data into it.
    
   Follow the steps:

    

   • Open Microsoft Outlook application.
   • Select File -> Open -> Open Outlook Data File to restoring the data from backups.
   • Now, Select File -> Open -> Import/Export. Have a look on the below screenshot
     
2. Auto-Archive Outlook PST
   Already ‘Auto-archive option is enabled on your system. You can also restore your PST file through it.
    
   Follow the below steps:

    

   1. Open up Microsoft Outlook
      
   2. Select File -> Options -> Advanced
   3. Go to the Auto-Archive section and select the Auto-Archive
      

   Then, Auto-Archive popup appears, have a look on below image.
   Now, Click the Browse button and open the target folder from your system. And Click OK.
   
   Here, you can also use previous versions in windows. In case you are enabled Auto-Archive option, then It is easy to restore. For that you need to follow the below steps.

   1. Open your PST file location. In which your Outlook Data Files are located.
   2. Right-Click on the Folder and Select the Properties from the menu.
   3. Now, Select the Previous Version from the menu tab.

   You can see the multiple versions of your Outlook Data File.
   
   Now select the version of your MS Outlook data folder and Click the Copy button to restore a previous version and save it to yours required location.

3. Restore your Data by ScanPST.exe
   It is another way to restoring the data from 0kb PST file. follow the steps below.

    

   • Open the Inbox (Scanpst.exe) tool on your installed folder.
     
   • Now, Browse the location of your PST file and Click on Start button
   • It will take a couple of times to recover your 0kb Outlook PST file.
   • This tool cannot catch your all problems. Sometimes it is unable to recover your data and permanently data loss.

Automatic solution to recover your files with EdbMails – EDB to PST Converter tool

If you are going with manual methods, some time it may loss data. No guarantee of full data recovery by them. I recommend users to use EdbMails to restore all its mailbox contents.
It has some more features which can fulfil your requirement. Let’s see the features of EdbMails

1. Export and Migrate all your mailboxes from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 to PST files.
2. Recover Exchange EDB file and migrate all the mailboxes to your Office 365 via Online.
3. No Outlook and Exchange Server Dependency, you can directly perform EDB to Office 365 and Live Exchange Server migration without installing Microsoft Outlook on your computer. It also supports migration to hosted Exchange Server.
4. Recover your all Mails, Attachments, Calendar, Contact, Draft, Notes from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 and also 2016 corrupt and unmounted databases.
5. No Size Limitation, you can export more than 1TB databases.

Also, It Recovers Public Folder, Pub and Priv EDB, PUB and PUB1 Exchange EDB/STM database files.
 

Quick Solution

EdbMails for Outlook PST repair tool and to convert corrupted Outlook PST Files to PST. Also you can perform PST file migration to Live Exchange or to Office 365.

Conclusion
In many cases which the outlook PST displays 0kb file size and it becomes inaccessible,for recovering your data from corrupt data files.sometimes manual techniques fail to perform the recovery operation. for that make use of EdbMails Outlook PST Recovery tool. It will be easy to use, highly secure application to get rid this task.