Outlook Express is an email and news client which included with Internet Explorer versions 4.0. Outlook Express is quite different from Outlook though both sound similar. Like MS Outlook, Outlook Express is also not an exception and gets corrupted or damaged sometimes. There are various scenarios which show the data corruption in Outlook Express and inaccessibility of DBX files. Since all the data and email messages are saved in DBX files in Outlook Express it’s very important to keep the DBX files safe and protected from corruption.

If the DBX files get corrupted or lost, the data inside the files become inaccessible and the users cannot access his emails, contacts, calendars and other items over the messenger resulting in a chaotic situation. There are several factors which may corrupt or damage the EDB files including the following:

Following reasons are responsible for .dbx file corruption:
  • Virus attack

  • Unexpected system shutdown

  • Anti-virus scanning

  • File system issues

  • Hardware failure

  • Transaction log file issues

  • File header corruption

Further, the above errors create complex situations generating some familiar or unfamiliar error messages. Following error messages may appear indicating the corruption in the DBX files.
  • “Error 0x800C013C”

  • “The message could not be deleted”

  • “Outlook Express could not started because Msoe.dll could not be initialized”

  • “An Outlook Express store file may be damaged”

  • “Error 0x800C012E,5”

  • “MSIMN caused an invalid page fault in module "unknown”

  • “MSIMN caused an exception C0000006h in module Directdb.dll.”

  • “Error 0x800C013E”

If the DBX files in Outlook Express get damaged, the users require to employ recovery mechanisms for repairing the damaged DBX files and gain the data. Third party software can also be availed for performing Outlook Express Recovery which repair the damaged/ corrupted DBX files and recover the data.  Visit here : http://www.softwaredatarecovery.net/outlookexpressrecovery.html

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