How to Fix Exchange Jet Error 1018

When the Exchange Server Database get corrupted it start showing various errors here in this article we are going to discuss how to solve the Jet error 1018. The exchange server has a built-in ability that detect and fix various errors, damages and corruption in the file system level. Since when the EDB file get corrupted at page level then the exchange database is commonly hit by the 1018 JET_errReadVerifyFailure error.

The exchange server can get corrupted due to various reasons and as a result it starts showing error. Some of the common reasons are sometimes the index is disordered or the file becomes corrupt. Exchange server corruption is based on types of failure and it can be classified into two categories Logical corruption and Physical corruption.

Know how to check Exchange Database Page Corruption

Exchange database looks like another system file saved with .edb file extension. The reason is that on the every page that is presented in the database of the Exchange server. Each page contains the header that includes information about those pages. And size of each page is 4 KB. When this engine reads any particular page, the first thing you need to do it to make sure that page should be same as that one returned during extraction of information from the page header of that particular page. After that this confirms the CRC and then of database engine finds it invalid, it will shows Jet Engine Error 1018.

Reason behind getting error 1018

The 1018 error generally occurs because of the given reasons

• You may get this error as the checksum value stored in the header of the database doesn’t tally with the checksum value calculated while writing database to the disk.
• Or else some error with NTFS file system or the data is being written to an incorrect location on the hard disk.

And in this case the exchange server acts cagey and starts generating this error.

This usually happens when the server generates an incorrect checksum value for the page.

How To Fix Exchange Error 1018:

Well you can fix this by making use of the inbuilt utility Eseutil and Isinteg commands but first perform the valid backup file or you can also restore it from the valid backup but if it fails then you can make use of the third party repair tool to fix the jet error 1018. Make use of the EDB File Repair Tool, this is the best tool to fix any kind of error related with the exchange server database. With the help of this you can easily restore corrupt, damaged file and extract user mailboxes as a distinct PST Files which can be directly imported and used in Outlook.