Repairing Ms Access Database Files Manually!File Repair Tool Blog

Ms Access Database is prone to corruption and it is a common thing and therefore you should not get shocked. If you are regular users of Ms Access Database file then you might have encounter corruption and failure at several intervals of time. And therefore you will need to fix corruption and recovering the most important data, lost due to several corruptions and errors.

Most of the Access files get corrupted due to following reasons:

• Improper handling and system generated errors lead to corruption of Access file.
• Virus infection to your system can easily corrupt all computer files including Ms Access database file.
• While you are working on access database and if your system shut down unexpectedly due to power failure then it could also result in corruption to the file.
• Sometimes application malfunction also lead to damaging your Access database.

Though you have taken precaution to protect your computer files, even then also there are some other ways that infects your application that further result to inaccessible database files. In any of the above situation, you want to recover your data. Most of the times the recovery can be done successfully by the inbuilt utility that is offered by Microsoft, but in some cases it look like an impossible task to restore data and therefore it require a proper treatment.

How to Repair Ms Access Database Files Manually

Here are some solutions that will help you in recovering Ms Access database files. But before that as a precaution you must create a backup of already corrupted data as this backup may help in case if there is any further damage done to the original corrupted MS Access Database file during the process of recovering it.

Use Compact and Repair Ms Access

As I have earlier mentioned that the Microsoft provides built-in utility for recovering data from the damaged database files. This tool is popularly known as ‘Compact and Repair’. It can effectively perform recovery to your corrupt files. But if this solution fails then you might to need to spend money on costly software or tools that are made for recovering database files. It is obvious you have to go for any alternative solution if in case this method does not solve your issue which is normally determined in case of severe corruption issues. However that is a later story, but now let’s just concentrates on how Compact and Repair can help in recovering database files on different Ms Access version.

MS Access 2010 Users

• Click on Office tab.
• Choose Compact and Repair.

MS Access 2007 Users

• Click on Office button.
• Select Manage.
• Select Compact and Repair Database.

MS Access 2003 Users

• Go to Tools menu, select Database Utilities.
• Choose Compact and Repair Database.

Once you select the Compact and Repair in all versions of MS Access for recovering database file, the application will close any open windows for repairing things and treating your files. Once the process completes you can then re-open your database file with an error or corruption free files.

This inbuilt utility is cost effective and provides positive result yet it lack complete repair in cases where your database files are severely corrupted. In such cases you need an excellent and appropriate MS Access File Repair tool that can fix your problem in a smoothest and quicker way. Check out how MS Access file repair tool can come helpful for you. Download a free trial version now. We offer free download of tool for accessing tool’s performance before you invest in it.

steps to repair the error:

Step 1:Download and install Stellar Phoenix Access recovery software.

Step 2: Just click on “Open MS access file” button on the toolbar. You will find a pop-up window from where you can search or select for an ‘.mdb’/’.accdb’ file in your PC.

Step 3: Look at the image below you will find same image in your computer screen. With the help of this “Customers” table you will be able to view both the data and column information.

Step 4:Preview the column information of “Employees” table.

Step 5: Now you will the preview of database query.