Ya I dont want to call them unless I truly have to. The only thing I think I need of the machine is the admin account. I have all the log files and all. They seem to be ok? Zeek
-----Original Message----- From: Wayne Hanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OMG Im in big trouble. Exchange admins help. run (don't walk!) to your nearest phone and give PSS a call. Obviously something major has gone wrong with your hard disks and without a verified backup you are toast. You may be lucky and PSS can help you recover most of the data. Either way the investment will probably be worth it for the "I called on the experts and even they couldn't help us" factor alone. -----Original Message----- From: zeek Turmoil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2002 9:36 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OMG Im in big trouble. Exchange admins help. Here's the story, I was moving mailboxes from one machine to another because backup exec was toast on the mail sever. It would backup and say it was ok but you could never restore. I moved over a couple of mailboxes and the ADMINISTRATOR account. Next thing I know I see a scsi controller error on the machine and it reboots. I received an error stating boot.ini was bad then it went to could not load ntsokrnl.exe. please restore the file. I swapped the scsi raid card for the exact same model. Started the server up and received the same message. I edited the boot.ini to point to the correct drive. The machine booted and I received a ton of errors. It somehow lost most of the registry settings. Services dont start up including exchange. I tried to do a setup /disasterrecovery but it doesn't recognize that exchange is installed on the machine. If I try to run exchange setup it states that IIS needs to be installed and that I must first delete the crapped out server from exchange system manager. My questions. 1)What do I do next? 2)Should I remove the server from exchange system manager then reinstall dump the log files back in and do a eseutil repair? 3)The accounts I moved were not important except for the ADMINISTRATOR account. I cant seem to delete the mailbox because it can not connect to the dead server. Is there a way to recreate the all powerful administrator mailbox? 4)How screwed am I (Be nice it's been a bad day) Im running exchange 2000 all around on compaq servers Thanks fer any help Zeek 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 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
