If the Exchange store is unaffected by the bad sectors, you could temporarily attach a sufficiently large (external?) drive, move the store to the temporary drive, replace bad drives with healthy drives, and then move the store to the healthy drives. Not nearly as much trouble as backup / uninstall / re-install / restore I'd think, but that depends on the speed and connection method for the temporary drive vs. the speed of the backup/restore media.
And if you can install healthy drive(s) alongside the unhealthy one, then you could just move the database one time. Carl From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 4:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors. Server has two physical drives, OS on C: and Exchange on D:. D: is reporting bad sectors so can't image it. If I recall correctly, can't I get a backup of the stores then uninstall and reinstall Exchange on healthy drives and then restore the Information store?
