getting an Unexpected error from external database driver (1) when importing data from excel to access

Question

I have a 2010 Excel file with a sheet that spans 34864 rows and 1387 columns. I\'m trying to import it into Access 2010 with

Answer 1

In my case the spreadsheet was linked to another spreadsheet. I was importing a subset of the original sheet. I created a new sheet and copied the data column by column to notepad and then to the new sheet removing the links. There was something in the links which was causing the problem.
BTW: it was this one set of data since I've done this import sequence from this one spreadsheet to this database more than 50 times. Halving the data worked for the first (larger) half of the data, but not for the second.