Corrupt catalog cannot be repaired

Lightroom Catalog corrupt. Can't be repaired.
I was uploading a photo shoot to Lightroom 2.7. A few minutes in, I got the following message:
Lightroom encountered an error and needs to quit. There was a problem reading one of the Lightroom catalogs.
I quit and started again but received the following:
The last time Lightroom ran, it shut down prematurely due to a problem reading the catalog. Lightroom must now check the catalog before proceeding After checking the integrity of the catalog, I got the following message:
The Lightroom catalog "Lightroom Catalog" is corrupt and cannot be used or backed up until it is repaired. I clicked on REPAIR CATALOG. It looked like it was being checked/repaired but then I got the following message:
The catalog "Lightroom Catalog" is corrupt and cannot be repaired at this time.
I have been able to use a backup version of my catalog which is on my computer hard drive, but the catalog on my portable hard drive is the corrupt one. Why is that one corrupt, not both and how do I fix the corrupt one?
Please, please help.

the exact same thing happened to me but I don't have a backup catalog, Please please help.
Alison

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Hi all,
I need some help. i'm scray to lost all of my client wedding pics.
Actually, i imported 24 GB weddding pics lastnight . It was working fine and i'm sure i closed the LR before i turn off the PC.
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Thanks your reply. i did this before i post to the forum. i doesn't help.
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"jsc.19" wrote in message news:f9aaa05d-ad62-4f0e-96e1-6bbeb4c7098d...
> Will, thanks for taking the time to post some suggestions. I understand
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>
> Cheers all.
>
> James.
>
>
>
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>>> ===================================================================
>>> SQL Server 2014
>>> ===================================================================
>>> TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Setup
>>> ------------------------------
>>> The following error has occurred:
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>>> ------------------------------
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>>> ...
>>> Detailed results:
>>>   Feature:                       Management Tools - Complete
>>>   Status:                        Failed: see logs for details
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Reading though the many Google hits going way back AD-2000/AD-2006/AD-2011/AD-2014 for various installs including SQLserver_2008/2012 etc
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--- I figured the chances of us all having corruption of this one files were agaianst the odds and
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While it was running ...
2. Network issue when installing - some of the hits asked if could be related to Virtual drives.
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