Tips To Resolve Corrupted MS Access Database Article

	1888 Articles Home \| Computer Articles \| Data Recovery Articles \| Website Promotion Articles	Data Recovery RSS
Tips to resolve corrupted MS Access database

Corruption or damage in MS Access database or their components can occur at any time. Few main reasons responsible for the Access database corruption are application malfunctioning, file system damage, concurrent modification, software bugs, and more.

Author: Colin Dolly

Article Tools:

In most cases of Access database corruption, you encounter an error message that halts the mounting of the database making all the data inaccessible. To access the data and mount the database, the best way is to create a new database and restore data from an updated backup. However, if you have not maintained an updated backup or backup falls short to restore the desired information, then you will need to use advanced access repair application to repair the corrupted MS Access database.

Consider a practical scenario, where you encounter the below error message when you attempt to mount your MS Access database (Finance):

The database 'finance.mdb' needs to be repaired or isn't a database file. You or another user may have unexpectedly quit Microsoft Office Access while a Microsoft Office Access database was open.
Do you want Microsoft Office Access to attempt to repair the database?
You encounter another error message when you click on Yes button:

Unrecognized database format 'finance.mdb'

However, your problem increases when you encounter the first error message again:

The database 'finance.mdb' can't be repaired or isn't a Microsoft Office Access database file.

The above error messages make the Finance database inaccessible.

Cause:

The root cause for the occurrence of the above error message is corruption in Finance database. The Access Jet engine can easily recognize the structures and definitions, but is unable to open the database due to corruption.

Resolution:

To resolve the above problem and access the records stored in Finance database, you will need to use an inbuilt repair utility named “Compact and Repair.” But, if the above inbuilt utility falls short to resolve the issue and the records saved in Finance database remain inaccessible, then you will need to opt for powerful Access Repair application. Such access database repair applications can restore and Repair Access database components by using powerful scanning and repairing algorithms. Such applications are built with interactive and intuitive user interface that makes them self-explanatory.

Stellar Phoenix Access Recovery is the foremost Access Database Repair application that is compatible with Microsoft Access 2007, 2003, XP (2002), and 2000. The read only tool is competent enough to repair database objects like tables, queries, forms, reports, macros, and modules. The recovery utility supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT operating systems.

About Author

Colin Dolly is a self employed Internet entrepreneur and product reviewer. Our access recovery software completely recovers and access recovery software database components such as, views, tables, forms, queries, macros, etc. This access recovery application supports Access 2007, 2003, XP and 2000. For More Details:- http://www.repair-access-file.com/

Article Source: http://www.1888articles.com/author-colin-dolly-23246.html

Tips to resolve corrupted MS Access database