How to Fix Eseutil/mh Error through Exchange Recovery

MS Exchange Server, an advance and powerful application designed by Microsoft Corp., employs a tool called Eseutil/mh utility. This command line tool is run to check and verify the state of an Exchange Server database (.edb) file. It checks and identifies whether the last performed shutdown of Information store database was dirty or clean. Eseutil /mh utility is very helpful to carry out Exchange disaster recovery. In this recovery method, you analyze whether eseutil /p (repair utility) has successfully finished its repair process without generating any error. However, there are some situations, when you become unable to execute eseutil/mh efficiently. Due to this failure, your important data becomes unapproachable and cannot be accessed easily. To overcome such critical data loss situation or issue, you need to move for a commercial Exchange database recovery tool.


Let us discuss above topic and consider a realistic scenario. Suppose you dismount an Exchange Information database and run eseutil/mh utility to check its state. However, an error message stops you to do so that looks like:



Due to this error, you may not be able to mount your database. You will also become fail to access your important emails and other objects of the database.

Cause:

The primary reason for the occurrence of above mentioned error message is corrupt Exchange database file. An Exchange database file gets damage or corrupt due to many reasons. These reasons could be physical and logical. Virus infection, hardware issues, application error, improper shutdown of Server application, lost transaction log files etc are some prominent causes which directly impact the Exchange database (.edb) file.

Solution:

In order to fix above error and carry out Exchange Server Recovery, you can use your most recent backup file. If Backup file is not available or missing, you have to repair the corrupt database files with Eseutil /p (repair) tool. If this repair utility also does not give accurate repair results, then it is suggested to use a third party Exchange recovery tool to easily repair all the damaged database components.

Such third party programs are devised to fix corrupt database items and retrieve all data from the damaged Exchange databases. Exchange Recovery done by these tools are safe. Stellar Phoenix Exchange Server Recovery is comprehensive and easy to use software that performs safe recovery of damaged data with full accuracy. All the problems and errors related to damaged Exchange database gets fixed quickly and very easily. For the detail features of the product, you may visit here: http://exchange.stellarservertools.com/