Free drive space shouldn't be a problem, I have the c boot partition as 3
Gig, and Imail is on the d drive. It was the SMTP processes that were Dr W.
I am not sure of the total space problem, but after a reboot to clear up the
Dr. W. I was in a loop, and I tried a repair of the NT install, and got a
Blue screen in the middle of that. The NT partition is not being recognized
now. I have built a new machine (I suspected hardware as the cause of the
problem) and I have moved one of the mirror drives as a secondary to the new
server install, to make the contents of the drive accessible. That way I am
hoping that I can import the Imail hive to a temp location on the new NT
install, and then backup the hive to get current data. The drive does not
appear to be defective, just not accessible to the NT install.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Donnelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Server crash, mirrored drives. registry
> recovery. Can it be done?
>
>
> Mike,
>
> If the mirror is complete (a full copy of the C: drive and
> IMail installed
> there), you should be able to get all you need from it. Been
> a while since I
> had this kind of problem, but when I did, all I did was
> remove the first
> (failed) drive, change the mirror to be the boot drive and restarted.
> Everything was there and OK. I then installed a new drive to
> be the mirror
> and once that process finished, system was just fine. I'd
> suggest that if it
> does come up, do a backup right away, or get that new mirror
> drive in place,
> ASAP!
>
> I've seen those SMTP32 and Dr W errors before, but never seen
> them as a
> cause of a crash. Usually, just ack them and things return to
> normal. Even
> if SMTP32 processes are left 'orphaned', one can use the
> kill.exe from NT
> Resource Kit to remove them from the active processes. As a
> matter of fact,
> that is the method I would most recommend (no need for a
> restart or stopping
> SMTP service).
>
> Are you sure the Dr W errors were for SMTPD32 and not SMTP32? They are
> different, with the first being the SMTP Service (only one
> copy is running)
> and the second is the delivery process (may be up to 30 at
> any one time, one
> starts and stops for every email 'sent').
>
> NT gets really messed up if free disk space is exhausted.
> Apparently it can
> write over boot sectors and stuff like that. Could that be part of the
> problem?
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Delp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:47 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Server crash, mirrored drives.
> registry recovery. Can
> it be done?
>
>
> > I just had my Imail server crash. I do not have a good
> backup of the
> Imail
> > registry, and I have mirrored drives. When I figure out
> what caused the
> > crash, and replace parts if necessary, and re-install NT,
> is there a way
> to
> > recover the Imail settings off of the second mirror? I
> know that sounds
> far
> > fetched, but maybe I could get lucky.
> >
> > I was getting 30 -40 Dr Watsons on SMTPD.exe before I tried
> a reboot to
> try
> > to clear up the problem. It never came out of the reboot.
> >
> > Any suggestions??
> >
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