Do you mean your computer goes down and won't start back up again? In
that case, a hardware failure is strangly indicated, and you need to find
out what the bad part is.
Tools like Compaq Insight Manager can help identify problem components
before the fail completely.
Jim Helfer
-Original Message-
From: Ron Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 January 2002 15:46
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: recover from crash
Scenario:
You come in one morning, reboot the exchange server, and it
never comes back up, blue screens or whatever. It crashes.
Ran into something simular. The user had run out of space on the C drive.
When this happens you are not able to bring the system up or login at all.
We ended up making a bootable NTFS disk if the main partion is NTFS or you
can regular DOS disk to then access the drive and kill files
Not reboot it in the first place?!?!
Since you've ruled out good administrative practice, my first step depends
entirely on why it won't boot - bluescreen or whatever is a wide range of
problems.
First thing is that I ALWAYS shut the box down again, and try restarting it
again. After that, its
This is my wild-ass guess to a what if question. I would try to boot into
safe mode. If that failed, I would pray that I was smart enough to have
installed the recovery console. In either case I would systematically
elimiate devices I suspect to have failed.
Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP
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