Microsoft Visual FoxPro is a database management system developed by Microsoft Corporation. It stores all your valuable data in the forms of tables. Every table is stored as an individual file with DBF file extension. You can access data from tables, store data to the tables, or delete data from tables by querying. However, in some situations, the DBF file of Microsoft Visual FoxPro gets damaged and it becomes totally inaccessible. This behavior causes critical data loss situations and you must Repair DBF file, if there is no backup in place.

As a practical example of this problem, you may come across the below error message when you try to preview an ASP (Active Server Page) page, which has a connection to Visual FoxPro table:

“Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14' [Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]File '<your .dbf filename>' does not exist.
/<your web name>/<your .asp filename>, line <line number in .asp>”

After the above error message, you cannot access the DBF file. The database file becomes totally unusable. In order to extract data from corrupt database table, you must find out the cause of corruption and then perform DBF recovery by fixing it.

Cause

You may come across this behavior due to any of the below configuration problems:

• FoxPro database is stored on a computer other than IIS (Internet Information Server) server.
  And
  IIS server is set up to use the NT Response/Challenge while accessing safe script files.

• The DBF file is stored on a computer other than a computer running IIS.
  And
  IIS is set up to use Clear Text (Basic) authentication while accessing safe script files.

• FoxPro databases are stored on same computer as IIS.
  And
  You're using UNC pathing to DBF files.

Solution

You can try fixing this problem by using any of the below methods:

• Move your DBF file to to a new server, which has IIS server enabled.

• Repair and restore the corrupt DBF file using powerful and advanced third-party application, called DBF file repair software.

The applications are particularly designed to carry-out in-depth scan of entire DBF file and extracts all inaccessible data from it. They are incorporated with simple and interactive graphical user interface to ensure quick and easy DBF database Repair in all cases of corruption.

DBF Recovery Software is the most advanced utility to ensure absolute recovery of all your inaccessible data from the DBF files. It works well with dBase V, dBase IV, dBase III, and Visual FoxPro (6.0 to 9.0). The software restore all DBF file objects, such as table, table name, column name, indexes, primary keys, and data types.