Once you get it up, you are looking for the .LDF and .MDF files and you would need to bring up a new sql server and do an sp_attach_db when you get them. Its really easy actually once you have the files, assuming they aren't corrupted. If they are, good luck.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Fournet Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery If this drive contains your customer's livelihood, I wouldn't chance trying to spin the drive again. If the drive has been through trauma then it's probably best to leave it to the experts. If you try spinning it again it can cause more physical damage to the platters. Joseph Zachary wrote: >Try booting from a Knoppix disk, and try to drag files found on HD to another networked machine, or a second HD. Try it , if booting from knoppix hard drive is not effected as OS is run from CD. I have had good luck with this approch. Contact me if I can be of any assistance. Joseph Zachary- AAA Computer Repair & Services > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 21, 2005 11:43 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery > >I have a new client from New Orleans that, lo and behold, found out his IT >guy wasn't backing up his nightly SQL Server dumps. Well, they retrieved the >server yesterday with an IDE drive. > >The question is: Can we get the guy's data back? > >He asked me to first try to spin it up. I was worried about that, but I'd >heard of some success stories from other consultants helping NOLA clients. >So we plugged the drive into a new PC and started the system. The drive spun >up but we got a disk error before any OS boot. After that I powered down the >system. > >At this point I'm thinking we would need a hard-disk recovery expert. I know >there are some, but I'm not familiar with this. Who should we use? How much >will this cost? > >Any information is appreciated! > >--- >Puryear Information Technology, LLC >Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >http://www.puryear-it.com > >Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >Download your free copy: >http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
