Hi, I had a ms exchange edb which had corrupted due to disk space full problem, I had try the eseutil /p (repair), then /d (defrag), then run the integrity test fix. after that, the edb can be mount but I still can't retrieve email, and I can't view the mailbox information from system manager. Is there a way to remove the old edb file, and then create a new database, and create all the mailbox back from Active Directory? This server has thousand of user, and I can actually ignore all the old email message.
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If Exchange database (EDB) files are severely damaged, it is highly advised to restore the damaged or corrupt .edb files from the recent backup. Performing a hard repair using built-in eseutil /p utility will check the Exchange database for any damaged pages; if it finds any, it will remove them. Make sure that you can live without any data inside the database before doing a hard repair, because you may lose data. Also, make sure you have twice as much free space as the size of the database before doing a hard repair – this is required for the temporary database that will be created..
If you want to recover accurate data and get off from the situation of data loss, you should go for a third party tool Exchange server recovery to repair the damaged .edb file.