Re: transferring a SQL database from a hard drive?

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From: Andrew J. Kelly (sqlmvpnooospam_at_shadhawk.com)
Date: 08/12/04


Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:01:01 -0400

In the future you should have backups so this isn't an issue but have a look
at these:

http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=314546 Moving DB's between Servers
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=224071 Moving SQL Server Databases
to a New Location with Detach/Attach
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221465 Using WITH MOVE in a
Restore
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=246133 How To Transfer Logins and
Passwords Between SQL Servers
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=298897 Mapping Logins & SIDs after a
Restore
http://www.dbmaint.com/SyncSqlLogins.asp Utility to map logins to
users
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=168001 User Logon and/or Permission
Errors After Restoring Dump
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=240872 How to Resolve Permission
Issues When a Database Is Moved Between SQL Servers
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/scriptdetails.asp?scriptid=599
Restoring a .mdf
http://www.support.microsoft.com/?id=307775 Disaster Recovery Articles
for SQL Server

-- 
Andrew J. Kelly  SQL MVP
"boe" <boe_d@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OakYeVAgEHA.904@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Our company had a server that died.  I believe the database was sql
personal
> edition but I'm not sure.  We cannot get the server back up no matter what
> we do, it comes up with a blue screen of death and it was on a motherboard
> that has no idendification whatsoever.  We need to make the database work
> again on another server and there was no backup.  We can access just about
> all of the files from the hard drive.
>
> Is there any way to import the database onto a new box?
>
> Thank you
>
>


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