Missing LOG file, or not?

I run into problems a few days ago with my Exchange 2000 which, for
some reason stopped working.
Turned out that it cannot not mount information store because it cannot
rename the latest e00.log.
Event log shows an entry that reads it cannot rename e00.log to
e0002db4.log (which is next in sequence) due to an "Access Denied".
Funny thing is that there isn´t any access restrictions to that file
or any other files in the MDBDATA folder. In fact, as far as I can see,
that file does not exist!. The folder holds log files up to
e0002db3.log but no e0002db4.log.
If I try to manually create a file with that name it wont let me and
will give an "Access denied" error message. If I try to creare a file
named, for instance, e0002db5.log, it will create it with no problems.
I have Panda Antivirus running on that machine and I first thought that
Panda could have quarentined the file but I have stopped all Panda
services and the file does not turn up. The file is not hidden or
flagged as a system file. It simply does not exist and the system wont
allow the creation of a file
If I force a log file replay, Exchange correctly goes trought all log
files but it fails when it tries to access the last one, which is
e0002db4.log. That means, no information store is mounted.
My question is ¿Is it possible to force Exchange to replay log files
up to e0002db3.log? and ¿What's wrong with that ghost file?

Thanks in advance
Kind regards
Rufus

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