Problems in Exchange

Hi guys

Ok I know what I did, I know how the error occured. What
I need is an idiots guide to how to fix it please.

History:
Customers Exchange server kept falling over. Found that
the C drive only had 6 meg of space left on it. On
investigation found that MDBdata had about 16 gig in
E000001.log files upon it. Found that customer had not
been backing up exchange, this is why the logs had not
been removed since begining of year 2002. Needed to make
some space to allow me to get things working, so I deleted
some of the old E0000001 files.

Problem:
Yep, am now getting ESE98 Event ID 474. Information Store
(4176) The dtatabase page read from the file "C:\Program
Files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb" at offset 2687430656
(0x00000000a02ef00) for 4096(0x00001000) bytes failed
verificaton due to a page checksum mismatch. <snip> The
read operation will fail with error - 1018 (oxfffffc06)

Help:
It looks like I need to run eseutils with a / key. I
tried to repair it using /p and some others, but each time
I tried the repair would fail, it either could not find
the file priv1.edb or it would fail to repair it.

As you can probably guess, my exchange knowledge is
limited. So I am looking for an idiots guide to how I
repair this problem. Currently the emails are working and
everything is running. But I do need to fix this fault,
incase it leads to something bigger.

Thankyou in advance

Vortigern

 

OK

Looking at the information from Microsoft. I need to repair the checksum problem. I do not want to recover the information I deleted. I hope, it is not required.

Also because there was no backup running on this directory I cannot restore from backup.

Soooo

I need to repair the checksum problem. Does this mean that I need to run an offline defragmentation of the database to recover the database from checksum errors?

Will I then need to run the Isinteg command as a hard repair operation has not been performed?

Thanks

Vortigern