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Database 'msdb' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space.

I am working on SQL Server 2005 for quite sometime now. For past couple of weeks I am facing a strange error often but not always!!

Refer the screenshot below to know the actual error:


Database 'msdb' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space. See the SQL Server errorlog for details. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 945)

My system configuration:

I am using Windows XP Media center edition with SP2 and 1 GB RAM. I have SQL Server 2005 (version 9.00.1399.00)

What's the solution?

I came across this KB article - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899436. As per the KB article it looks like this error occurs because of a ACL issue here.

If it's an ACL issue I presume that SQL 2005 should not work for me always. I am wondering how it works for me once I restart my laptop couple of times.

Bottomline is I haven't yet found a solution for this. If at all you have run into this issu,e and have solved it, do write back to me.

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Krishnan Sriram said…
Check if .MDF and .LDF files are in correct location.
Check to see if both the above mentioned files have read/write permissions. If the files are just read-only, kindly provide write permissions too

I had the same issue and by looking into the properties of .MDF and .LDF, I was surprised to see that they were read-only (don;t know how this happened). But on correction, things were back to normal. Hope this helps
11:48 AM, July 07, 2007
Anonymous said…
had this issue today

managed t solve it;

apparently something had a hold of the MSDB file which was locking it from use

if you go to computer managementyou will see an option for sql2005 i simply stopped the service for the instance i was trying to connect to then restated it

this will of kicked any connections to the MSDB file which allowed me access once again
5:17 PM, April 18, 2008
Anonymous said…
Reloading SQL also works. I had to do that using Express.
9:20 PM, May 13, 2008
ksnkarthik said…
Had this issue today.

When I restarted all the services of SQL Server manually and the things are back to normal.

Thanks for the posting.
6:29 PM, September 08, 2008
Anonymous said…
My problem was that the MSDBData.mdf file was compresses for some reason...
1:53 AM, June 25, 2009
Anonymous said…
ksnkarthik thnxxxxxx
when i restarted the services the sql services the things are back to normal..
thank u very much.......
4:11 PM, January 27, 2012
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