>>>Just a guess. Could be that after the crash the table still appears open for NT Server? Is it safe in your situation to try to reboot NT server?
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>>Or, if Tom has SysAdmin rights he can check the open files list and close these files manually.
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>Oops, just re-read the message and saw you'd done that.
Try going to your command box and issuing...
SET EXCLUSIVE ON
OPEN DATA yourdbc EXCLU
VALIDATE DATA RECOVER

HTH
//:^)