Are you encountering any of the below error messages while trying to open your DBF file?

• “The index file is missing”
• “Table dBase not correct”
• “ERROR[42S02] [Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]Not a table”
• “Unable to get header”

If the answer is 'yes', then you are in a great difficulty as your DBF file has been damaged. Corruption of DBF file primarily takes at the time of opening, closing, or while modifying the DBF file. The above error message occur at the time of opening a DBF file, resulting into inaccessibility of all its records. Additionally, these error messages appear every time the user attempts to access the DBF file.

To access the records after any of the above error messages appear, the user needs to restore the data from an updated backup. But in case of backup unavailability, the user need to repair its DBF file. To do so, the user needs to opt for an efficient DBF Repair software.

The DBF repair utility ensures complete repair of DBF file in most cases. The utility also allows the user to save the file on default or new location. With non-destructive nature, to-the-point documentation, and highly graphical user-interface, the DBF repair utility is safe, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-implement.

Stellar Phoenix DBF Recovery provides absolute repair of corrupt DBF files created in dBase III, dBase IV, dBase V, MS Visual FoxPro 6.0, MS Visual FoxPro 7.0, MS Visual FoxPro 8.0, and MS Visual FoxPro 9.0 applications. The DBF repair utility supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 operating systems. It is available in both trial and complete versions.