Microsoft Outlook Express (OE) is one of well-known free news client which is bundled with Windows editions (Win 98 to Windows Server 2003) & Internet Explorer. Its main purpose is to receive or deliver e-mails to users & stores database in .dbx. Besides, OE stores contact in Windows Address Book (.wab) plus tightly incorporated with Windows XP.
Why DBX Corruption Occurs In OE?
Outlook Express e-mailing program is stripped down edition of MS Outlook which is superior to OE. The worse point in OE is that it supports database up to 2GB only and on exceeding database size above this limit, corruption occurs in files. Many other factors responsible for data corruption like “security issue” within OE as it supports HTML & script consequently the DBX become infected & inaccessible. Someone may get the error message while opening the corrupted .DBX like-
- Outlook Express: The message could not be sent. There is not enough disk space.
- MSIMN caused an invalid page fault in module Msoe.dll
DBX File Recovery or Export DBX in PST – Manual Process
This could be a critical problem for your crucial database but you may resort it simply by employing manual method of DBX recovery. First of all find & locate corrupted DBX files using Registry Editor. Pursue the following steps to repair DBX files-
Press Start +R in order to open Run Windows >> Then type regedit & press Enter >> the Registry Editor will open then expand the folders from left hand side panel in this way-
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Identities > XYZ > Software > Microsoft > Outlook Express > 5.0
- Now, from right hand side panel, locate Store Root from the list & then double click.
- You will get the path of DBX Files where OE stores then copy the complete path.
After coping path, follow the given steps to move the mailbox files-
- First of all close the OE program.
- Paste the copied path on windows directory & Press Enter.
- Now copy and move DBX Files to a new location. Next, delete files from original location.
Now in 3rd step you need to import .DBX files to Outlook Express, follow the below mentioned steps:
- Open the Outlook Express on system & click at File Menu > Import
- The OE Import Windows will be appear, then choose the version of Outlook Express according to files and click Next.
- Browse the location to pick the directory where files are stored/saved and then Next.
- Now, select the data files those you want to import (folders & sub solders), Click at Next.
Now, you can open Outlook Express plus can ensure your mailbox folders. Keep in mind: while using Registry Editor, make sure that there should not be make any changes. It should not be modified, if there is any change performed on Register Editor, it may damage your data file. This manual method is practicable to handle only moderate or minor corrupts, it will not be effective in case of severe data corruption & Time-Wasting Process
Easy Outlook Express Restore in few Steps
Fortunately there is many automated software those serve up to fix any level of corrup tion with guarantee, Outlook Express Restore s/w is one of admirable utility to eradicate all type errors from OE files and has fluency to repair corrupt DBX files even in large quantity. This DBX File Repair apparatus is empower to retrieve lost data items, makes healthy to all broken files plus allows re-storing recovered e-mails in 5 useful formats such as DBX/PST/EML/MSG/RTF. Simply it can be execute on almost all Windows OS, supports each OE. The algorithm of program is very simple to understand if think to verify the tool then you can go for download demo which will illustrate you how to repair corrupt DBX file.
Ijira Ojutu 