Private Information Store (priv.edb) in MS-Exchange Server gets corrupt because of many reasons. These reasons include sudden server shutdown, malicious virus, anti-virus scanning, log file corruption, and human errors. Once the priv.edb file gets corrupt, you start getting nasty error messages on your screen. Due to these errors, data of the Information store becomes totally inaccessible. In such critical situations backup can be used. In case you don’t have a backup file, you have another option of using third party Exchange recovery software.