Access 2003 Solution Center

Corrupted or Damaged File

Description of troubleshooting corruption in an Office Access 2003 database
Provides a list of reference to Microsoft Knowledge Base articles that may help you to resolve corruption in your database.
You receive the "The database is in an unexpected state" error message when you try to open a database in Access 2000 or a later version of Access
Describes a problem that occurs when you use the DAO library to convert a database that you created in Access 97 or an earlier version by using the CompactDatabase method. Describes three methods to resolve the problem.
How to recover data from a damaged database table or a corrupted database table in Access 2000, Access 2002 or Access 2003
Describes how to repair a damaged or a corrupted Access database. You are shown the steps to recover data from a damaged database table.
How to order a replacement CD for Microsoft Office
Lists the phone numbers for U.S. and Canadian customers when you have lost, broken, or misplaced your original Publisher installation CD and want to order the replacement media from Microsoft. Explains how to view the status of your order.

You may receive a "The OLE server may not be registered" error message when you try to create a blank data access page in Access 2002 or Office Access 2003
Describes an issue in Access 2002 and Office Access 2003 where you may receive an error message when you try to create a new blank data access page and the Triedit.dll file is not registered on your computer.
You may receive an error message when you try to insert a new record in a table that contains an Autonumber field in Access 2007 or in Access 2003
Explains "The changes you requested to the table were not successful because they would create duplicate values in the index, primary key, or relationship." error message. The Autonumber field seed is not correctly reset after compacting the database.
How to troubleshoot and to repair a damaged Access 2002 or later database
Describes how to use the Compact and Repair utility. Additional alternatives that you can use to try to repair damaged databases are described. This article also provides information about what can cause database corruption and how to prevent it.