Re: Server Meltdown

I haven't played with hardware in a while but can't you just rebuild the
MBR?

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"Steven" <Steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> MBR Corruption on the hard disk. No appearant physical damage.
>
>
> "Marc" wrote:
>
>> We are currently scanning the drive for recoverable data. When we get
>> the
>> good/bad news then a follow up post will show up.
>>
>> Thanks for the offer of help!
>>
>> "Shane Young" wrote:
>>
>> > The AD piece is my biggest concern. If you have the DB's from
>> > SharePoint I
>> > can help you get back all of the content no problem. I am just betting
>> > that
>> > you have to recreate AD. If that is the case you will then have to go
>> > back
>> > to SharePoint and set all of your users up again. If you did
>> > everything
>> > with AD group and SPS sitegroups shouldn't be too horrible. If you
>> > used
>> > individual permissions then that is another fun structure to redo. :)
>> >
>> > Is the hard drive physical broke or just blue screening/not booting
>> > into
>> > windows?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Shane Young
>> > http://www.lucruminc.com
>> >
>> > Writing SharePoint training classes is fun!
>> > http://www.sharepointsolutions.com/advinfrastructure.html
>> >
>> >
>> > "Steven" <Steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> > news:9415CF0F-906D-4DB5-B8FD-8C531083A634@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > The premise here is that we had a drive failure. Actually,
>> > > Rackspace, had
>> > > a
>> > > hard drive failure.
>> > >
>> > > For all intents and purposes we have NO back up what so ever, beyond
>> > > a
>> > > STSAdm back up made back in may.
>> > >
>> > > My specific question is this: We have the physical hard drive in our
>> > > posession now; rackspace shipped it overnight. (Maxtor 200gb drive)
>> > >
>> > > Provided we figure out a way to extract relevant data, and that data
>> > > is
>> > > usable (readable, in tact etc) can anyone give me a general idea as
>> > > to the
>> > > liklihood of restoring this Portal site?
>> > >
>> > > If you had a perfectly good hard drive that has SharePoint installed,
>> > > along
>> > > with the DBs (config, content etc) would you be able to use that data
>> > > to
>> > > bring up and rebuild a Portal site?
>> >
>> >
>> >


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