The disk compression, as the name suggests, is a method of reducing the needed disk space for a specific hard drive volume, folder or file. The compression, which is accessible and done on the NTFS (New Technology File System) file system volumes, is known as NTFS compression. NTFS file system allows you to compress files, folder and hard drive volume for decreasing the requirement of hard drive space. But in some situations, compressing a hard drive volume on which Exchange Server is installed may cause EDB (Exchange Server Database) corruption and results into data loss. In such case, carrying out EDB Recovery becomes the need of hour.
Bad effects of NTFS file system volume compression have been observed with respect to Microsoft Exchange Server Information Store that is the repository of all the user mailboxes and critical data. The Information Store Service is the core component of Microsoft Exchange Server, but NTFS compressed partition might damage it. Information Store corruption particularly when the size of compressed volume exceeds 4 GB.
è A number of users/clients log onto Exchange Server at the same time. This configuration helps various user requests and writer and thus shouldn’t be merged in NTFS compressed partition. The compressed volumes can not handle heavy write traffic for the compression and thus does not support heavily loaded servers.
è MS Exchange Server writes all of the data to log files before writing it to disk as it supports transaction logging. If you’ve configured it to store files on compressed NTFS volume and Exchange Server alters data through mapped section in compressed file, the corruption might occur.
è Insufficient CPU (Central Processing Unit) capacity might cause problems to EDB file, if Exchange Server is deploying compressed NTFS volumes.
In any of such cases, if EDB file gets damaged, you need to opt for EDB Repair solutions. It is best possible with the help of third party software, known as EDB Recovery software.
These software are particularly designed to scan entire database and extract all of its inaccessible objects like emails, notes, contacts, calendar, tasks and personal folders. EDB Repair software are quite easy to use and do no require sound and prior technical skills to achieve absolute recovery. With read only and non destructive design, these software are completely safe to use.
Stellar Phoenix Mailbox Exchange Recovery is the best ever made and the most advanced EDB recovery software. It works well with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2000 and 5.5. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2003, XP and 2000. The software has self-descriptive user interface.
