Esentutl.exe network copy fails under Windows 11

Question

esentutl.exe is failing to copy to my network drive under Windows 11.

Under W10 I routinely copy an in use file using esentutl.exe to my NAS mapped Z: drive and this has worked for well over the last 18mths. Since upgrading to W11 a few days ago this copy always fails with the msg "Operation terminated with error -1022 (JET_errDiskIO, Disk IO error)"

Numerous attempts using other "in use" files such NTUSER.DAT also fail with the same error msg (see attached image)

As a point of interest, the same failure occurs if I attempt to copy to any drive that's NOT an NTFS format. However, my NAS Z: drive is seen as an NTFS drive under both Win10 and Win11.

Has anyone got similar issues or know of a solution?

The version of esentutl.exe as supplied with W11 is 10.0.22000.1

Answer 1

Hello

Operation ended with error 1022 occurs because of a disk input/output (I/O) failure. Whenever the exchange requests a database page and the operating system cannot gain access to that page due to any reason then the error occurs.

The amount of free disk space needed to defragment a database (Eseutil /d) is 110 percent of the size of the file being defragmented.

When you repair a database (Eseutil /p), the amount of free disk space required depends on the number of corrupt pages in the database. This is different from how the older Edbutil.exe program repaired databases. Normally, 25 percent of the file being repaired is a conservative estimate of the amount of free disk space required.

You can try out the suggestions posted in this forum and see if that helps you https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/Lync/en-US/4523a6f7-6cf6-4cd1-98bc-364e9e8e7e25/operation-terminated-with-the-following-error-1022-jeterrdiskio-disk-io-error-after-xx-seconds?forum=exchangesvradminlegacy

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Answer 2

We are having the same issue. We use Esentutl.exe to simply copy a large self-extracting exe file from a network drive to a local laptop.

It is run from a visual basic script with this command (obviously the variables have values, but I just wanted to show the options): esentutl /y "%CmdString%" /d "%LocalCommand%" /o

It fails with "Operation terminated with error -1022 (JET_errDiskIO, Disk IO error)"

Again, this is simply copying a large exe file. Its not a database. The file isn't in use. There are no disk space issues at the source or destination.

Any suggestions would be helpful.