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

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Recovery store is available in SBS. I have never used it so I cannot give pointers but it is available.

Rosewood wrote:
I do have a server to mount the store on, but SBS2003 is limited to one store!
"Jan" <jan@.n.o.com> wrote in message news:OD7W1BvIHHA.2632@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If you don't have exchange server to mount store on your only option is 3rd party utility that can export mailboxes to pst files.

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Jan Wakulicz
www.micropol.com.au


"Rosewood" <rosewood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:783C2CE7-A1D0-4C5F-9A05-6D555F945417@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've already mirrored the drive and am working from the copy.

I was hoping that there was an easy way, without using expensive 3rd party tools, to simply put the drive in an external chasis, open up the stores and start exporting PSTs and be done with it.

As you can imagine, they don't have a whole lot of spare hardware right now. There isn't a machine that we could spare in down time to do a repair install to get back into that original os. If that is what we need to do, we can do it after the new year but you get where I'm coming from there.

Thanks again.

"Jan" <jan@.n.o.com> wrote in message news:uUi%23QcuIHHA.4760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sorry, I understood you had new server up and needed to get data from old drive.

You should start by ghosting old drive to similar drive in new server.
Put old drive on shelf just in case your image gets damaged.

After that you can try to boot from SBS CD1 and run repair of OS.
You might need to use F6 to load new HDD controller drivers.
Once you have new server booting from HDD, reapply service packs, updates and come back with information on whatever errors you get in logs. We should be able to help you sort it out.

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Jan Wakulicz
www.micropol.com.au

"Rosewood" <rosewood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:D8433A46-D609-4B3F-91B8-7F7132933E31@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Except I can't boot the OS so how am I going to dismount a store?
Also, where are the store files located?

Is there not a way to mount the store as read only and then copy info out of it?

"Jan" <jan@.n.o.com> wrote in message news:ep51a%23oIHHA.4712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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 news:091ED1CC-DB34-400E-B2C7-8086CF24C920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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