Re: MDF Missing!

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Turn on Auditing for File Deletions in NTFS and find out who/when is
deleting the file.

HTH,

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Greg Low [MVP]
MSDE Manager SQL Tools
www.whitebearconsulting.com

"Ruben" <Ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:27E76B98-3867-4B2E-8B7E-A2775E83427A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It happen again! on three laptops the MDF where deleted, I ran the
> antivirus
> (with latest definitions, symantec and McAfee), ran the MS AntiSpyware
> full
> scan and none found, all the disks are NTFS. I noticed just the replicated
> databases are being deleted.
>
> Please help me, I can't found any case like this in whole
> internet....thanks
>
> "Ruben" wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg, I suppossed that and I'll run a full scan on that computers, but
>> the
>> only chance is that virus just affects mdf files, because no other files
>> are
>> being deleted. Thank you any way
>>
>> "Greg Low [MVP]" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Ruben,
>> >
>> > Sounds like either:
>> >
>> > a) virus activity
>> > b) virus scanner activity
>> > c) hardware issues
>> > d) corrupted disk (particularly if fat32 as an example)
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Greg Low [MVP]
>> > MSDE Manager SQL Tools
>> > www.whitebearconsulting.com
>> >
>> > "Ruben" <Ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:647704C3-9351-40D7-BEF2-E8625D445452@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > Hi, I have a very strange and dangeorous problem, I have MSDE 2000
>> > > SP3
>> > > installed on several laptops using a database as local, and it
>> > > replicates
>> > > as
>> > > the user request to, using Merge replication. Everything works fine,
>> > > but
>> > > sometimes suddenly the MDF and TRN files of the laptops just
>> > > dissappears.
>> > >
>> > > I look over all the disk and there are no trace of the files, it
>> > > isn't in
>> > > the recycle byn, and the most strange is if I try to delete an MDF
>> > > the OS
>> > > dennies the operation, because the service is running.
>> > >
>> > > Any idea?? please help
>> >
>> >
>> >


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