I'd manually delete all the exchange directories and then disable all the exchange services, reboot, and try again... :) not exactly what you asked for but this worked in my test lab once.
Let us know how you get on. -----Original Message----- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 February 2002 10:49 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Removing Exchange Dear all, Just a quick one I'm sure somebody will be able to point me in the right direction for. I am currently 'messing' around with a development server (NT 4.0) which I am trying to restore our Exchange Server to. I join it to our network as a BDC and then take it off-line, restore the backup thus demonstating my ability to deal with a disaster and then also practice upgrading to 2000 e.t.c I am experiencing problems restoring the database but this is another issue involving the wonderful Arcserve. My problem is that every time I botch up a restore it basically corrupts the Exchange installation and I don't really seem to able to remove it properly. Therefore a new resote won't work, I can't re-run setup so I keep re-installing the server! Basically the state I have at the moment is only 4 Exchange services installed, if I run setup (to hopefully get the uninstall option) it doesn't detect the current installation and attempts a new one which then fails! I think what I am asking is does anyone know where to find the article for manually doing a total removal of Exchange 5.5? Thanks, James. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
