Fix and Recover Corrupted DBF Databases

Published by Jacob Martin on July 7, 2014

There are many loads over the workstations and busy environment are resident to most of the database applications. These methods lead to crash or power failures that easily harm the open database, which causes loss of information and corrupt database structures. After this the workstation, reboot the corrupted will fail to open.

But the database administrator or database user may face some of the circumstances such as file that cannot be opened or browsed data and other records that are misplaced or lost of files, objects are missing from their place to unable the task on the database etc. the main reasons behind the file corruption. It is one of the most common causes of data loss when it takes place all the data and the information stored in the database can get lost. There are several reasons that are responsible for the corruption working of database such as:

1. Virus Infection: The infection or damage of the DBF files is possible with the computer virus which makes them corrupt.
2. Error of Hard Disk: The hard disk error leads to malfunctioning of hard disk drive that leads to damage all the data stored in the system.
3. Network Problem: While sending or working of the dBase file over the internet it may get lost, damaged or corrupted if the network connection slows down.
4. Power Outage: If the system shuts down then turn off the system memory you get enough time to be refreshed and lead to corruption of data stored in the database.
5. Software Collision: The database applications may collide with the applications and which can lead to damage of the DBF files and programs that are used for creating them.
6. Human Error: Sometimes if you suddenly switch off the PC or cancel the database application while the file still remains open then this may harm the DBF files and makes them to corrupt.

These are some of the common reasons that damage the database files very badly. But you need not to panic you can possibly recover back all the original information with proper tool.

This situation of the database corruption can be fixed by the following solution:

• To restore back all the corrupted DBF files from the valid backup you must update a copy of your database otherwise you cannot restore it.
•  To repair the corrupted index of the DBF file or re-index file. This can sometime make fine the DBF file by doing so.
• You can try to copy the corrupt database to a new database file. This helps to rebuild the new database.
• If all the above situations fail to fix the corruption related problems of DBF files then you need to use a third party repair tool that is designed for the recovery of the database file.

DBF Repair Tool helps you to recover the corrupted and broken DBF files automatically. If you are a skilled database manager then you can use DBF Recovery for repairing the broken database despite of knowledge. This newly developed database recovery engine automatically detects the exact file format and database that are created with DBF file and completely analyzes and repairs the structure of the database. It saves your time of the database users and advanced system administrators. It is a user friendly solution for recovering deleted/lost DBF file which does not require any special user skills. Along with the DBF files you can recover the MDB and ACCDB database on Windows computer.

Steps to Fix and Recover Corrupted DBF Databases:

Step 1: Fisrtly you need to download, Install and Run DBF File Repair software.

Step 2: Then you need to select database application and database file to repair and then click on the ‘Start Scan’ button to start the scanning process.

Step 3: Then scanning process is in progress, if you want to stop it then click on ‘Stop’ button.

Step 4: Then you need to select the destination path by clicking brows button from dialogue box. And press ‘OK’ button.

Step 5: Then you need to select the database by clicking ‘Brows’ button in which you want to save the recovered data of DBF file. And click on ‘Finish’ button.

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