Robert L. Stewart
rl_stewart at highstream.net
Thu Feb 19 07:50:24 CST 2004
I remember reading about a year ago that if you opened the MDB in Word by accident that you would trash it completely. Could that have happened? At 02:37 AM 2/19/2004 -0600, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:26:06 -0500 >From: "Reuben Cummings" <reuben at gfconsultants.com> >Subject: RE: [AccessD] Unrecognized Database Format >To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >Message-ID: <FKEBJOENDDBJHLINGOBHIECIFDAA.reuben at gfconsultants.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Jim Dettman tried opeing the db in A2002 and 2003, but that failed. Thanks, >Jim. > >I have opened the db in a hex editor. There is something wrong for sure, >but I don't know what to do. > >At the top of the bad file there is a line "This program cannot be run in >DOS mode" > >In a healthy mdb, the line is "Standard Jet DB" > >Also, looking down thru the file, it seems as thought everything is >gibberish as opposed to a good mdb which has some text in it I can >recognize. > >That's as far as I can go without a little more help. > >Is there anything else that can be done (other than throwing in the towel)? > >Thanks. > >Reuben Cummings