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One of the worst fears that every computer user has to live with is that of encountering serious problems with a computer hard drive or the operating system ' problems that could force them to reformat the entire hard drive or to reinstall the operating system. This not only means having to take careful backups of all the important data that is stored on the computer but also being ready with recovery tools that will help in case one is unable to recover data after restoring the computer. For example, if you have been using Microsoft Outlook, all your important data will be stored in Personal Storage Tables (PST files). This would include data such as email messages, appointments, project updates, contacts and address books, notes, journals and much more. It would be a disaster if you find that you are unable to read your PST file after you restore your computer and need to look around for a repair tool to recover PST files.

Most computer manufacturers now make the task of restoring your computer or of reinstalling software, as hassle free as possible. Towards this end, they provide Recovery CDs that make it easy for you to restore your system to its original factory settings. However, since this will result in a loss of almost all the data that is currently stored on the computer, users are always urged to take sufficient backups of the data stored, especially of all the important data. Once your computer has been restored or the operating system has been reinstalled, you should be able to recover the data from these backups.

However, many Outlook users have found that they invariably face problems while importing an old PST file into Outlook after a computer restore and that they need to recover PST files before being able to access them.

The most common error messages that they encounter while trying to access the data from the old PST file are as follows:

·        '(0x8004010f): 'The operation failed. An object could not be found.'

·        'File access is denied. You do not have permission required to access the file c:path_name.'

These error messages typically indicate that there has been some corruption in the PST files either while backing up or on the media that has been used to store the PST file. This kind of corruption could be due to an incomplete recovery of the PST file or missing parity bits.

One of the best ways to restore PST files that are believed to be corrupted is by running the ScanPST.exe tool that Microsoft Outlook provides. This tool is often very effective in correcting minor errors that arise due to small levels of corruption and you may find that you are able to access your PST file after having run this tool.