The header is usually the collection of relevant information. MDF Header file corruption is usually identified if the file is inaccessible. MDF is the prime storage of SQL server and any corruption in this file cause serious problem and it is tough to recover data for the database administrator. The problem is due to various reasons like virus attack and application fault. You get following massage in the situation of header corruption:
“The file header is corrupted and not a valid database file” or Msg 5172, Level 16, State 15, Line 1
The error generally pops up when user try to attach the MDF file to SQL server. And in order to get rid of above situation you need to attach file with some different ways, instead directly. Firstly create a similar database and then exchange the corrupted files after switching down the SQL service. Now try to extract all the valuable information for database by putting it into the emergency mode.
If the above method is not helpful then try MDF Repair or MDF Recovery tool. It would be very helpful in the process of recovery of files. MDF Repair software is powerful recovery tool that provides you full scan the corrupted database with sophisticated algorithms.
The software recovers MDF files from all the following error massages easily:
- Table handler giving error
- Database is corrupt
- Database corruption error
- Cannot locate the database
- Cannot open the desired database
- Table error
- File has crashed
Hence, you must not worry about recovery of MDF damaged file.
