Migrating Older Outlook PST File to Outlook 2003!

MS Outlook 2002 and its earlier versions supports ANSI format for the PST file whose file size is limited to 2GB only. It is all because of this small PST file size and its format, many users complaint about that they cannot easily replace this PST or use it with their new versions of MS Outlook. Due to the size limit of the ANSI PST file the data stored in it sometimes gets corrupt or delete automatically whenever the size of PST exceeds 2GB. In such case in order to resolve the issue you can upgrade older MS Outlook to MS Outlook 2003 and can restore the PST file up to the size of 20GB. But doing so will not make the PST file feasible to add any more files to the pre-Outlook 2003 PST file. In such situation you need to migrate the earlier Outlook files to the Outlook 2003.

Not only that, you also cannot repair the files if it has corrupted due to the 2GB size limit of its earlier Outlook version. In this situation using Outlook without migrating with Outlook 2003 might cause the Outlook 2003 not to open the PST file and it get corrupted. This problem occurs because of the PST file of Outlook 2003 which used different PST file format. It allows the native Unicode storage while the earlier version does not support the same. If you also encounter any of the above mentioned situations then you cannot access the PST file then it is quite clear that the PST file is corrupted and you need to repair it in order to access the data stored in it. This can be done either by using inbuilt Inbox Repair Tool or by using third party Outlook 2003 Repair software.

This third party tools are file repair or mail recovery tools which are specially designed to repair and restore the data stored in the corrupt PST file. This software works in almost all possible cases of PST corruption no matter whatever the reason behind the corruption. The software works with the header of the corrupted files without making any change or altering the contents stored in the PST file. Using this software is one of the best ways to fix PST corruption issues of Outlook without hampering the integrity of the content stored in it.