Re: SBS blue screen

aArt Jansen gave me some good advice regarding chkdsk from recovery console, it worked :o)

I seriously dont regard the installation as stable as there are still too many errors to actually consider sticking it back in production but aArt's advice has given me the opportunity to login and run Exmerge to grab the exchange data. There was a lot of corruption and I know that there are errors here because Exmerge told me so and all the generated PST's are exactly the same size (almost). One of the successfully recovered mailboxes is one we use for a shared calendar which was the only data (and one of the most important) that I could not previously recover.

now I have the Calendar im just about laughing (save the whole day and sleepless night lost and the remaining works), I have the company data from a backup, can recover the company calendar from the Exmerge PST, can recover most emails from local outlook PST files, I cant think of what else I might be missing?

THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH! IF IT HADNT BEEN FOR ALL YOUR ADVICE I WOULD DEFINATELY HAD A FAR WORSE EXPERIENCE!

Cheers :o)





"Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]" <mwport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OxK2EYv2HHA.1188@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I *think* this is what you have ahead of you:

Restoring Databases to a Recovery Storage Group in Exchange Server 2003
(See: Restoring Databases from Offline or File Copy Backups)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124961.aspx

How to Restore Databases from Offline or File Copy Backups
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996404.aspx

How to Restore File Copies of Databases to a Recovery Storage Group
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124590.aspx

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP]
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"Billy " <billy.burrows@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23XTTF%23u2HHA.1208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The original server name ended .local which messed things up with a mac
system sourced following the server for video editing, as everything was on
its knees anyway i figured it was a good time to sort the issue out, my bad!

So now im stuck again :o(

also, when first installing the original server the c:\ drive was faulty and
SBS installed to E:\, now it has installed to c:\ correctly so I figure that
isnt doing it all too much good either.

Is there a means of getting mail acocunts, public folders and calendar back
to exchange withour re-re-installing to old server name configurations and
using a hookie C:\ drive so that sbs installs using E:| as its root?

"Billy " <billy.burrows@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23x$xU6n2HHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Ppl,

I so hope someone has a clue about this! I am running SBS 2003 but today it crashed and now will not boot, blue screens on every attempt. Last knowng good config fails as does safe mode, what is the proceedure with something like this? I assume it will invlove re-building but I have a lot of data that is needed (files in shared directory, exchange emails, public folders and calendar), RAID 0 configuration, any ideas will be MOST appreciated!


Thanks




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