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ACC97: "Disk Error -- Reserved error (-1601)" When You Open an Access Database
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Novice: Requires knowledge of the user interface on single-user computers.
SYMPTOMS
When you try to open a Microsoft Access database, you may receive the following error message:
Disk Error -- Reserved error (-1601)
Compacting and repairing the database does not resolve the issue.
CAUSE
There is corruption in the system tables of your database.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, create a new database, and then import all the objects from your database into this new database. To do so, follow these steps:
- Create a new Microsoft Access database.
- On the File menu, point to Get External Data, and then click Import.
- In the Import dialog box, click Microsoft Access (.mdb) in the Files of
Type box.
- In the Look in box, select the drive and folder where your database is located, and then double-click your database.
- In the Import Objects dialog box, click one or more objects to import. You may want to select only a few objects at a time because this makes it easier to identify any corrupted objects.
- Click OK to import the selected objects. If an object generates an error while it is being imported, the object is probably damaged beyond repair. You will have to import the object from a backup database or will have to re-create the object.
- Repeat steps 2 through 6 until all the objects are imported into the new database.
- Compile all the imported modules in the new database. To do so, follow these steps:
- On the View menu, point to Database Objects, and then click Modules.
- Select a module, and then click Design. If you do not have any modules, click New.
- On the Debug menu, click Compile <database name>.
- Close the new database, and then quit Microsoft Access.
NOTE: If your original database has references to any additional library databases or type libraries, make a note of the references. Then in the new database, in Design view of any module, on the
Tools menu click
References, and add these references.
REFERENCES
For additional information about repairing Microsoft Jet databases, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
279334Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=279334/EN-US/
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How to Repair a Damaged Jet 3.5 Database
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Access 97 Standard Edition
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