Excel File Corruption on Windows Home Server - By: Sam Joseph

If you have saved your Microsoft Excel file on a Windows Home Server-based system, chances are that your file might get corrupt. It is particular to the situation when Windows Home Server uses more than one hard drives. Due to a serious bug reported in file transfer and balancing procedure used in this operating system across different hard drives, you might fail to access your Excel file. In such situations, it becomes mandatory that you use your recent Excel file backup and restore the lost information. But there are cases, when you don’t have any file backup that you can use. To cope up such situations, use Excel Recovery software to repair your damaged Excel file.

When you try to open an Excel file that is saved on a Windows Home Server based system, you might receive errors that the file is corrupted or is located on a server that is currently unavailable, while the Server is actually running.

Cause

If you are using multiple drives with your Windows Home Server system, then depending on its timing, workload and Excel use patterns, the file could become corrupted. It occurs because to implement Shared Folder storage technology, Windows Home Server uses NTFS file system together with a file system mini-filter driver. Due to a bug in redirection mechanism that mini-filter driver uses to redirect I/O between files stored on main and other hard drives, interaction between NTFS, Cache Manager and Memory Manager goes out of sync. This ultimately makes an Excel file corrupted and inaccessible.

Solution

You should use these methods to resolve such issues:

• To prevent such file corruption from occurring, you should install Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 update
• Restore the damaged Excel file from backup or use commercial Excel Repair software (if backup gives errors or is absent). In case the excel file repair tool you use is not compatible with Windows Home Server, you should transfer the damaged file to a system that the application supports. Such file repair products provide advanced file repair mechanisms, automated recovery options and graphically rich interface to safely restore the file.

Stellar Phoenix Excel Recovery is a powerful software that effectively repairs a damaged Excel file. It is a non-destructive repair excel file application with support to Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It restores all Excel file objects, including charts, images, hyperlinks, macros, tables etc. This tool is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT.

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Sam Joseph work as a freelancer and researcher of xls repair & excel repair software.

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