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by paul

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I am getting 1018 errors showing in my event viewer. I have checked and all hard drives are fine. I believe my database is corrupted. I have tried the eseutil /d tool and I received errors trying to defrag the database. I ran the eseutil /g and got errors in the integrity check. I believe the corruption is with a particular mailbox. I backed up the mailbox data into a personal folder and then tried to delete the original mailbox, create an identical one and then restore from my personal folders backup. The problem is now I can't delete the original mailbox. I am getting a read checksum error. Please advise

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by shanghai sam

First, I would back everything up, especially Priv.edb and Pub.edb. I would then go to MS KB Q272570 and follow the instructions there for how to recover a corrupt information store. The instructions are too lengthy to fit here.

If you still wishto remove the mailbox, you could use a free utility from MS called Exmerge to extract it(see MS KB Q259688). This is a handy utility and well worth getting.

by shanghai sam

Just to cheer you up, I started getting 1018 errors about 9 mths ago, Did everything you have Backing up, deleting mailboxes that appeared to be the problem, defragging etc etc, and it cleared up the problem for a while then back it came, This turned into a regular cycle until the whole thing finally gave up in November with the entire database being inacessable, I would suggest the best course of action to be replacement hardware and restore from tape or intersite connector and replicate the server across, As even after a post mortem on all the hardware we were left with the only likely candidate for the problems to be the Fujitsu HDD,s showing a high CRC error count (seems to be the norm for Fujistu) when tested with a S.M.A.R.T. Analysis package possibly assisted by the presence of an AMD CPU.

Chris

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