How To Fix Microsoft Sharepoint Error 6404?

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Published by Jacob Martin on November 17, 2014

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is associated with intranet, content management and document management. It is also known as SharePoint is server software. It is a multi-user platform which manages web portals, social networking sites, content, documents, websites and business intelligence tooling processes. It is very helpful in building content management sites, collaboration sites and portals. It is incorporated with Office suite and it also has the system integration, process integration and workflow automation capabilities. These files are saved with an extension of .mdf file type. Sometimes these files becomes inaccessible sue to corruption.

Some errors may also occur in the SharePoint Server. One of the errors is Error 6404. This error may occur while working in a SharePoint Server.

Causes of Error 6404:

Error 6404 causes due to the following reasons:

Corrupt download or incomplete installation of Microsoft SharePoint software.
Corruption in Windows registry from a recent Microsoft SharePoint- related software change (install or uninstall)
Corruption of Microsoft SharePoint files due to virus or malware infection –related program files.
Deletion of SharePoint-related files by another malicious program

Symptoms of Error 6404:

Following are the symptoms of the Error 6404 that takes place in SharePoint Server:

“Error 6404” appears and crashes the active program window.
Your PC repeatedly crashes with Error 6404 when runni9ng the same program.
“SharePoint 2010 Cannot Remove File Error Code 6404” is displayed in your screen.
Your computer periodically “freezes” for a few seconds at a time.
Windows runs slowly and responds slowly to mouse or keyboard input.

The “Error 6404” message can appear while the installation process takes place and a Microsoft Corporation related software program is running. This error message can appear even when you startup and shutdown the system and also during the installation of the Windows operating system.

Runtime Errors like “Error 6404” can be caused by a numbers of factors so the important thing is that you troubleshoot each of the probable causes to prevent it from recurring.

How to repair “Error 6404” in SharePoint Server?

It is very difficult to repair and restore corrupted files once they are corrupted. So, updated backup files or restore files are very important and helpful to get back inaccessible files from the server. But when there is no backup file or the backup file has also been corrupted the in such situation, the only option is to use SharePoint Repair Tool. This tool is very powerful in all aspects. It effectively scans the damaged database files and repairs it in order to recover inaccessible objects in MDF database files. This tool allows you to retrieve sharepoint database such as tables, documents, indexes, labels and inaccessible MDF files. This repair tool restores the deleted or corrupted database and then save the recovered MDF files at a specific location on your system.

Some features of SharePoint Repair Tool:

Complete scanning and reporting: It identifies the sites as it understands the SharePoint Environment throughout the network.
Reconstruct Delegated Access: content owner are authorized by accessing, exporting and scheduling reports.
Gives Security Control: Contents are protected from users managing and monitoring access to the content.
Repairs Database from corrupted SharePoint database: It fixes all types of errors in managing tools.

Conclusion: After going through this blog you must have observed the different symptoms and causes of Error 6404 that occurs in SharePoint Server and how to repair this error. The best way to repair this error is to use SharePoint Repair Tool which allows you different features to perform.

How To Fix Sharepoint Error 6404?

Firstly launch the SharePoint Recovery Tool you would find an interface. This interface screen displays two options to recover SharePoint data: ‘Complete Repair’ and ‘Document Recovery’ Select as per your requirement.
If you choose ‘Complete Repair’, the screen will show the options for selecting and searching SQL Server (.MDF) files. Click on ‘Select File’ to select a SharePoint database for repair. If you do not know the actual path of the database which you want to repair, click on the ‘Search File’ to locate the MDF file in a specific drive. After selecting the desired file initiate the scanning process
After finishing the scan, the software would generate a tree of all SharePoint database tables and will display it in the left pane. You can select the table in the tree and can have the entire preview in the right pane. Then Click on ‘Repair’ to begin repairing for the selected database.
After clicking on ‘Repair’, this dialog box will appear. Specify the SQL Server name or Instance name and the desired destination path. Click on the ‘Browse’ option to choose the destination path. And select ‘OK’ button.
Once this process gets completed, you would find a dialog box that displays this message ‘Recovered file saved at the desired location. This shows that Recovery Process has successfully completed’. And select ‘OK’ button.
You would find another dialog box that asks whether you want to attach the repaired database to the web application. If you click on ‘Yes’ button, the above dialog box will be displayed. In the web application URL type, the name of the corrupt database and SQL Server Instance name. Then Select ‘OK’ button and proceed. When the process gets finished, you would be able to access the repaired database by opening the web application.