Tuesday 15 January 2013

"Outlook.pst cannot be accessed – 0×80040116." Issue: Easy Solution

By Unknown  |  00:15 2 comments


Corruption of Outlook is a common phenomenon that lots of users faces due to various issues. Personal Storage Table or PST is a repository of all Outlook data such as emails, contacts, notes, calendar, journals, etc. Under some circumstances the PST file stored in Outlook unexpectedly gets corrupted and becomes inaccessible. This problem mainly occurs due to the reasons like exceeding of 2GB file size limit, corruption of header, malfunctioning of hardware or software, intrusion of harmful virus and many others. Due to the corruption of PST files users have to encounter with "Outlook.pst cannot be accessed – 0×80040116." that prevents users to access their important data from Outlook.

Each time when user try to send or receive any emails similar error pop ups to display screen in the below given manner and abrupt the process:

"Unable to display the folder,[path] Outlook.pst could not be accessed, access denied."

Usually, this particular error pop ups to display screen when your PST has been corrupted or when it fails to read the hierarchy information from the PST file. In order to get rid out of the problem, Microsoft offers an inbuilt application named Scanpst.exe or Inbox repair tool. With the help of tool, you can repair corrupted PST file and overcome from "Outlook.pst cannot be accessed – 0×80040116." issue. Below are the manual method to repair damaged PST file:

  • At first, go to find or search option and find Scanpst.exe
  • Next, enter the path of PST file or browse the location
  • Then click on start by using the profile that contains repaired PST file
  • Now, on the view menu, click on the folder list option and locate “lost and found” folder
  • Finally, move the recovered items to your new PST profile.


With the aforementioned steps, you will be able to sort out the problem. In case if your still not able to open the PST file then execute this steps on Outlook.

  1. First, run scanpst.exe on hard drive and ensure disk integrity
  2. Then move PST file to other location and relocate PST file to the new profile
  3. And restart Outlook


With this guidelines, you will be able to successfully restore the corrupted or deleted emails and other Outlook data securely. May this Outlook Info have helped you to get rid out of the problem easily.

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2 comments:

  1. Try " Long Path Tool " useful in situations where you see these error messages: Cannot read from source file or disk, there has been a sharing violation, cannot delete file or folder, the file name you specified is not valid or too long, the source or destination file may be in use
    and many other file managing error.

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  2. You can repair your MS Outlook PST files with free Outlook Inbox Repair tool that will help you to repair MS Outlook PST free of cost. This is totally free utility for repairing MS Outlook PST.
    Any other query see this link:- http://migrateemails.com/2016/06/28/repair-pst-file/

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