1. Copy the database
2. Try a manual

gfix -mend -full -ignore database.gdb

3. backup and restore.

Regards
Paul Beach
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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Klerlein <pklerlein@...>
To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 5:06 PM
Subject: [IB-Architect] Re: Fixing a corrupt database


> --- In IB-Architect@egroups.com, Ann Harrison <harrison@n...> wrote:
> > At 02:20 PM 9/25/2000 -0400, Klerlein, Paul wrote:
> >
> > >Does any one have a utility that will either try to fix a corrupt
> database
> > >or extract what it can of the data to put it into a new database
> file.
> > >
> > >I'm getting the following message:
> > >
> > >database file appears corrupt ()
> > >-bad checksum
> > >-checksum error on database page 49
> >
> > What version of InterBase?
> >
> > Ann
>
> The database was created with 4.1
>
> The error appears as soon as I try to connect so none of the
> utilities that I have found will work because they all try to connect
> before they work.
>
> Paul
>
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