>We have a large table which has given the message "Table '< tablename >' has been corrupted. The table will need to be repaired before using again.
>
>There is no memo file associated with this table.
>
>My experience with repair tools is that they have not been very useful.
>Has that been your experience as well?

We get this occasionally and sometimes the following works. I have no idea why but it may be worth a shot. In the command window we.......

CLOSE DATA ALL
SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0
USE < tablename >
GO BOTT
BROWSE

< append some blank records > &&anywhere from 3-5 records seems to work
< delete those records >
CLOSE DATA ALL
SET TABLEVALIDATE TO yourvalue

This was a trick that was passed to me by the previous programmer. I have no clue why it works, but in most cases it does the job