ESEUTIL stuck on "Scanning Satus (% Complete)"

Hi All,

Our Exchange server (2003 SBS) bluescreened last night and since the reboot the databases would not mount. eseutil /mh showed that both the priv1 and the pub1 were in dirty shutdown state.

I was able to run the eseutil /p on the pub1 database (only 35MB) and it worked like a dream - mounted and everything! I then went to do the same on the priv1.edb database (5GB + 2GB in priv1.stm). This is all I get (see code snip) and it's just stuck! Been 30+ minutes now!! No progress, nothing! I do see the task in the task manager sucking up 80% of the CPU and the CPU/memory numbers are jumping around, which tells me that eseutil is doing something. Is this normal??

C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin>eseutil /p "c:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1
.edb"
 
Microsoft(R) Exchange Server Database Utilities
Version 6.5
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
 
Initiating REPAIR mode...
        Database: c:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb
  Streaming File: c:\program files\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.STM
  Temp. Database: TEMPREPAIR3860.EDB
 
Checking database integrity.
 
The database is not up-to-date. This operation may find that
this database is corrupt because data from the log files has
yet to be placed in the database.
 
To ensure the database is up-to-date please use the 'Recovery' operation.
 
 
                     Scanning Status (% complete)
 
          0    10   20   30   40   50   60   70   80   90  100
          |----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|

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