Information Store Crashed - Exchange 5.5 SP4

[mjbianco15]

Our Information Store crashed this past week. We were able to go a back up; however we have lossed some emails. I setup an offline Exchange 5.5 box to see if we could repair the damaged Information Store in order to recover the missing items. I am following MS Article 219419 step by step. Both the pub.edb and priv.edb came back inconsistant so I continued on and performed a eseutil /p /ispriv. This tool is in the middle of repairing our 35GB Store; however it has frozen on the repairing process at 82% for almost 24 hours (See below). Does this tool typically take this long for a repair and should I wait...or is there another approach I can take. I can see the drives working and there are no processes hung and eseutil is active so I know it's doing something...but what?

S:\exchsrvr\mdbdata>eseutil /p /ispriv

Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM) Server Database Utilities
Version 5.5
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved.

Initiating REPAIR mode...
Database: s:\EXCHSRVR\MDBDATA\PRIV.EDB
Temp. Database: REPAIR.EDB
The database is inconsistent. There may be uncommitted logfiles.

checking database integrity

Scanning Status ( % complete )

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|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
.Table "1-2DD52E", Index "?T668f+B67aa+S42-Te06+Q674a 409": index ent
ry 2173 inconsistent
.Table "S-c-536AE27", Index "?T668f+B67aa-Te06+Q674a": index entry 1 inconsiste
nt
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scanning the database

Scanning Status ( % complete )

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repairing damaged tables

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