Microsoft Exchange MTA: EDB Corruption Due To MTA Errors

Sometimes when you start MTA (Message Transfer Agent), you are getting an error message:

“Could not start the Microsoft Exchange Message Transfer Agent service on . Error 2140: An internal Windows NT error occurred.”

To solve this problem, you run Mtachecker.exe, then again you are getting an error message. “Database contains serious errors and cannot be automatically repaired.”

Along with these error messages, you might see several events in Application Event Log of the Windows NT Event Viewer, like the following:

Event ID: 2152:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MSExchangeMTA
Event Category: Operating System
Description: MSExchangeMTA - A fatal database error occurred, the database recovery operation was not successful and manual correction will be required. Details can be found in the file: drive: \Exchsrvr\Mtadata\.\MTACHECK.OUT\MTACHECK.LOG. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services. [DB Server MAIN BASE 1 14] (16)

Main causes of this type of errors:

You are facing these errors because of the following conditions are

è An incorrect value exists in the registry for the location of MTA database path.

è If might be possible that edb file is corrupted and Ms Exchange Sever can not read data from the edb file.

This will be the loss of your important data like your e-mails, contacts, tasks, journals and etc. If you want to do recovery of your important data, you can do these two different methods:

1. If window registry is incorrect, then you have to edit the Window registry to correct the invalid references by exact location reference.
2. Another method is that you can use EDB Repair software to scan the corrupted EDB file for correction and then you can recovery your crucial data.
   

Basically EDB Repair software is a third party tool which repair or recover you edb files. This software is very easy to use and no technical knowledge required.

Phoenix EDB Recovery software is powerful enough to systematically scan the whole EDB file and extract your emails, notes, contacts, calendar entries and other data from it. Another important feature of EDB Repair software is that it supports Exchange Server 5.5, 2000, 2003 and also this software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT4 (SP6).

Source: http://www.edb-repair.com/