Unrecognized database format

[Anand]

Gurus,

While installing the VB5 app using Access 2000 database
our customer getting Error [3343] on Windows 2000 OS and
SP4 on it.

By default the 2000 comes with DAO 3.6 and hence the Jet
engine 4.0, so no version difference in reading database.

As such the app displays only the error number and not the
message. Is there any other error message for this error
other than "Unrecognized database format".

Its a read only app. So corrupting the database while
writing is not happening here(I assume).

I'm out of ideas here what could have gone wrong here.
Other customers are OK with the installation.

Thanks in advance.

Anand

 

[Larry Linson]

VB5 came with Jet 3.5, not the Jet 4.0 used by Access 2000 (as did VB6,
also). One of the VB6 SPs updated the Jet Database Engine, but I don't know
if any of the VB5 SPs did the same. It's a matter of setting a reference to
and including Jet 4.0, DAO 3.6, and whatever is the appropriate version of
ADO, if you use it. There's a Knowledge Base article dealing with VB6 and
Access 2000, article 238401. Find it at http://support.microsoft.com.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP