Fatal system errors are very common in Windows and supported applications like Microsoft Access. In MS Access, the fatal system errors only take place when you open or use the database.
Generally these errors occur due to damage in the database or excessive fragmentation. Sometimes these problems could be corrected by using Compact and Repair Access command. You can Compact and Repair the database by following the below given steps:
1 Close the affected Access database. If you are working in multi-user environment, corroborate that all other users have also closed database.
2 Create backup of your database. Windows Explorer could be used to easily do this. However, Microsoft suggests that you should routinely backup your database to another storage media, like another hard drive, removable disk, or to network disk for safe keeping of your data.
3 In Access, you should also backup MDW (Microsoft Database Workgroup information file). This file is the repository of every user’s security account information and preferences in this file. If this file is missing, Microsoft Access database could not be started.
4 Go to Tools menu-> Database Utilities and click Compact and Repair Database.
5 Specify the database which you like to repair.
This solution works in most of the database damage and corruption like scenarios. But even after using this, the database works unexpectedly and you still get fatal errors, you need to use some other solutions to fix this issue.
As a limitation, Compact and Repair tool does not work on severely damaged database. If this is the case with your database also, you will not get desired results.
In such grave situations, you need to use third party applications, known as Access recovery software. Access recovery software are specifically designed to repair and restore the corrupted database.
Access recovery software are capable of working each and every data loss corruption scenarios, nevertheless the severity of the damage. Access repair software are powerful enough to systematically scan the damaged database and retrieve every bit of information from it.
The market is flooded with the Access recovery software so you should be careful while selecting the one for your database. A wrong decision in Access repair software selection might ruin the situations.
Stellar Phoenix Access Recovery software is the ultimate solution for all your Access database corruption related worries. This robust Access repair software is capable of recovering all the database objects including forms, reports, relationships, database constraints, macros and so forth.
Phoenix Access Recovery is usable with all file versions of Microsoft Access including Access 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2007. To know more about this Access recovery software, you are recommended to use its free demo version, available on Stellar’s website.
