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Opening a .mdb file
Hi. I havea .mdb file that I need to open. When I try to open it using MS access 2003 or 2007, I get "unrecognized database format.." error. I do not know what version was used to create that file. I...
There is a slim chance that you can extract your data by using my utility
Check here for my EE article : https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/33729/Importing-Tables-from-Older-Unsupported-Access-databases.html
Check here for my EE article : https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/33729/Importing-Tables-from-Older-Unsupported-Access-databases.html
The email link in my article worked when I just tried it.
Anyway, I tried opening your file by several methods including Access v1.0 , Access 2.0, my own recovery software & the utility in the EE article by tsgiannis.
All of those failed stating that the file was in an unrecognised format
Next I tried opening in a text editor and could read a lot of data from the file
However doing that also confirmed it isn't an Access MDB file
This is the start of the file in Notepad
Suggest you do the same using Notepad or a hex editor to recover whatever data is useful to you