Thread: How to Repair a Damaged Jet 3.5 Database

Hardware Failures and Software Conflicts may leave your Access Database file damaged. The signs of a damaged or corrupted Access Database can range from Deleting appearing in some records, to the inability to access any object of the database. In these cases, your database becomes completely inaccessible and you may loss your data.

You can resolve this problem using Repair and Compact utilities of Microsoft Access. This is the useful tool for recovering and optimizing MS Access Database files. You can use Repair and Compact utility by following these steps:

1. Make a copy to corrupted database (.mdb) files as a backup
2. Close the .mdb file and delete the .ldb file (keep record to locked objects)
3. Run the compact utility from Tools menu. After completing check the database
4. If it is still damaged, run Repair utility from tools menu.

This utility works in most of the cases of database corruption. But in case, if you failed to repair your database using this option, you may face the serious problem of data loss. There is no inbuilt option that can help you in repairing your database. In these cases, you need for some special [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] software.

Access Recovery software are the specially designed utilities that can help you in repairing your corrupted database in case when you fail to recover your database using inbuilt database utilities. These software works in almost all of the cases of database corruption.

Stellar Phoenix Access Recovery Software is wonderful access recovery software of this category. This software uses advanced searching algorithms to search and locate the corrupted Database files. With the help of this data recovery software you can also repair corrupted tables, macros, queries and links also.