Re: Recovering exchange data from a hard drive in a seperate machine...

Hi it is definately a situation of last resort but.... you can use a
software application called Ontrack to recovery exchange emails to
individual pst files then copy them acoss manually.

tedious and messy but when all else fails and looks like nothing else
will wor it's always an option.

Cheers,
Dean


Jan wrote:
You can recover most if not all content of store. You could simply try to:
1. dismount existing empty store
2. copy four store files from hard disk you salvaged
3. try to mount store
4. most likely this will fail but you will get errors in event logs that
well lead you to final solution

Google event log errors and you will find plenty of articles to help you
recover exchange data.

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Jan Wakulicz
www.micropol.com.au


"Rosewood" <rosewood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One of my clients had an interesting week last week. The office manager
had some personal issues with someone and decided to 1) trash the offsite
backups that she was in charge of 2) take a fire axe to the server,
including the external drive and the backup hardware (a box of hardware
that would allow us to build an identical server at any given time).

Everything was destroyed EXCEPT the hard drive! The hard drive was
completely unharmed amazingly enough! The new hardware and server is up
and running and is completely different then what we had before there. I
can't get it to boot up, even in safe mode. But like I said, the drive is
fine and the data is in tact. All the documents, faxes, etc. were easy
enough to recover of course. However, I've never had to recover exchange
files like this.

Any pointers on what I need to do would be very helpful. Thank you.



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