Severe corruption in MS Access database primarily results in unmountability of database and complete inaccessibility of its records. Few main reasons for acute corruption of Access database file could be fatal virus attack, continuous improper shutdown of the database, and application malfunction. To access your database records after severe corruption, an easy way is to restore the data from an updated backup. However, if the database is not handy or it is not feasible to restore the data from the backup, then the only choice left is to use advanced third-party access database repair application. Consider a practical situation, where your database gets severely corrupted and you attempt to repair it by using “Compact and Repair”. To do so, you follow the below mentioned steps: 1.The first step is to click Tools option on the Toolbar menu. 2.Now select Database Utilities from the drop-down list. Click 'Compact and Repair Database' option. 3.Next, choose the corrupt Access database in 'Database to Compact From'. 4.To begin with compact and repair, click 'Compact'. However, while the compacting and repairing process was ongoing, the below error message pops up: “Microsoft Office Access can't compact and repair the current database.” The above error message pops up every time you attempt to repair the database by using “Compact and Repair”. Cause: As stated in the error message, the MS Access is unable to compact and repair the database. The root cause for the occurrence of the above error message is severe corruption of your database. Resolution: To resolve the above error message and to access the records stored in the database, you will need to use advanced third-party access repair application. An Access Repair tool uses powerful scanning methods to perform absolute repair of corrupt database. It provides safe database repair, without making any overwriting or modifications in the original file. The repair utility is embedded with highly interactive documentation that makes it easy to understand. There is no requirement of prior technical knowledge to perform the repair process.

Occurrence of an error message while mounting, accessing, or closing an MS Access database indicates that there is some problem with the database. In most cases, such problems primarily occur due to corruption or damage in database. A damaged database does not allows the user to view its records. In such situations, if you need to access the records stored in your database, then the best way is to restore it from an updated database backup. However, if the backup is unavailable or has been corrupted, then you will need to use an advanced access repair application that can orderly repair your database. Picture a situation, where you receive the below error message while mounting your MS Access database: “Microsoft Office Access cannot retrieve field properties from the system tables. This database needs to be repaired. If you click Yes, Microsoft Office Access will open the table in Design view. The settings of the FieldName, DataType, FieldSize, Indexed, and Primary properties will remain intact, but the settings of other field properties will be lost. You can attempt to redefine the lost properties, but we recommend that you restore the database from a backup copy, or close it and use the Compact and Repair Database command (click the Microsoft Office Button and point to Manage)Do you want to continue?” As the error message appears on the mounting of the database, it makes all the database records inaccessible. Cause: Corruption in MS Access database. Resolution: As suggested in the error message, you will need to Compact and Repair your database. To do so, you will need to follow the below steps: 1.On the Toolbar, Click on 'Tools', and then select 'Database Utilities' 2.To proceed, click 'Compact and Repair Database' 3.Next, select the corrupt file in ‘Database to Compact From’. 4.Click 'Compact'. 5.Provide a valid file name to repaired file. 6.Click 'Save'. The probability of the database repair using the above method is high, but not 100%. In situations where the above repair steps fail to perform, you will need to use a powerful access database repair application. Such Access Repair utilities use advanced scanning and repairing techniques to resolve corruption to maximum possible level. These repair tools are non-destructive in nature and assure safe database repair.

In most cases, the database users are unable to identify the exact cause of MS Access database corruption. This is the reason that they mostly land up in further corrupting their database. Corruption in your database can either be caused due to logical factors (improper system shutdown, application malfunction, and virus attack) or physical factors (accidental dropping, fire, water, natural disasters, etc.). An easy way that most database users follow to overcome the corruption scenarios is by restoring the data from an updated backup. However, there are many situations where the users have either not created any backup or their backup file gets corrupted. In such situations (for logically corrupted databases), they need to perform access repair by either using a third-party repair application. Consider a practical scenario, where your MS Access database does not mount due to corruption. Furthermore, you also encounter the below error message: “Microsoft Office Access was unable to completely repair the '|' table and deleted some Memo, OLE Object, or Hyperlink field values. To recover the data, restore from your backup copy of the database....” All your database records become inaccessible after the the database becomes unmountable. Cause: Logical corruption of your database. Resolution: A simple solution (as stated in error message) to the above error message is to restore the data from an updated database backup. However, if in absence of database backup, you will need to compact and repair your database using below steps: 1.Click 'Tools' option on toolbar menu and choose 'Database Utilities' in the drop down list. 2.Next, click 'Compact and Repair Database' option 3.Select damaged database file in ‘Database to Compact From’. 4.Start the compact and repair process by clicking on 'Compact'. 5.Store repaired database file on your desired destination. 6.Lastly, click 'Save'. However, if the above error message appears even after following the aforementioned steps, then your database is severely corrupted and needs a third-party access database repair tool to perform repair. Such Access Repair applications perform repair by using advanced scanning algorithms. Moreover, these applications come highly graphical user documentation, which makes them easy-to-understand without any prior technical understanding.