Missing FPDTC.dll File and Access Database Corruption
Posted by admin on September 24th, 2008Microsoft Access database is the repository of several business critical information for many organizations. It is the best way to create relational databases with ease and effectiveness. Access provides a number of robust features to manage your data effectively.
However, Access is very useful and important application, but sometimes it may refuse to open and may show you some sort of error messages such as:
“Your Microsoft Access database or project contains a missing or broken reference to the file FPDTC.dll Version 1.0.
To ensure your database or project works properly, you must fix this reference.”
In such cases, you can not open your Access database and thus can’t access the stored data. It could create several disastrous troubles, if the database contains business critical data.
Cause
This problem may be the possible result of corrupted Access database. The database may get corrupted due to missing or broken references of FPDTC.dll file. FPDTC.dll is a library file of Access application which is used at design time.
Due to deletion or corruption in FPDTC.dll file, the database could not be opened and the data could not be accessed from it. Thus it will lead to the nightmare of data loss and you may fall in need of Access recovery.
Resolution
In cases of Access database corruption, you are required to repair and restore the database and Access provides inbuilt utility to serve the same purpose. This utility is known as ‘Compact and Repair’.
This tool works in most of the cases but it could not repair the large sized Access databases and can not address the severe corruption problems. In these circumstances, you need to use a third party Access recovery application to fix the issue.
Third party access repair software are easy to use applications which provide you quick Access repair even in severe database corruption cases. You can use the Access recovery software even without having any sound technical knowledge.
Stellar Phoenix access recovery is the best ever made and the most advanced Access repair software which is capable of addressing all of the MDB corruption issues and can repair even large sized databases. This Access recovery software can repair and restore all of the Access database objects including tables, reports, forms, macros, database constraints and so on.