Re: SBS2000 down and restore isn't working - help me please

I take it the Server was using IDE hard disk, right ???
Do you have a Mirror or copy of the hard disk from the orig system?

(I've always maintained servers should use SCSI hardware - you'll probably
need a
scsi if you use tape anyway so spend a few extra bucks on the HDD)


"Steve Hiner" <developer.deletesspam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OstIUcZmFHA.3144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We have an SBS2k server. The other day we had some power issues
> overnight and it fried the mainboard despite being on a good UPS. Since
> the mainboard was toast we decided to upgrade a bit when replacing the
> hardware. All the data on the server's hard drives is intact but it
> won't boot on the new hardware, it freezes at MUP.SYS (based on a safe
> mode boot).
>
> I switched to plan B and installed a fresh copy of SBS2k on new drives
> on the new mainboard. Everything works great until I restore the
> backup. After a system restore and reboot it blue-screens with a
> Driver_Power_State_Failure or Bad_Pool_Caller Stop message.
>
> So now I'm left with trying to restore everything manually. Is there
> any way to get the new installation of Exchange (same version of course)
> to attach to the old exchange data? I seem to recall that I can't just
> create new accounts with the same name and assume that SBS2k will let
> them have access to their old mailboxes. I tend to think that Exchange
> will view the user as someone that just happens to have the same user ID
> as the old user and it will deny access to the mailbox. Am I right?
>
> Sorry for the long post. I've been up WAY late the last 2 nights trying
> to get this thing back up and running, I'm a bit frazzled now.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. :-D
>
> Steve Hiner
> Software Engineer
> ISI


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