Need Server Help !! Newt?

Had a raid controler go down this morning.
Promise helped me reconstruct the array and we rebooted.
Blue screen 75% into bootup of Windows 2000 color screen. Same thing in Safe mode.
Promise said Boot file was corrupt.
Booted from cd rom, choose repair, chose the directory C:WINNT and typed fixboot.
Rebooted computer and it ran a chkdsk and supposetly fixed several corrupt files.
Rebooted and I get the following error before the Windows 2000 black and white screen even appears.

Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<windows 2000 root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

HOW?

No recovery disk
no backup.
Server has only been running for a week.
And save the "I told ya so"

 

I guess I'm SOL huh?

The guys at Promise were thinking you can do a repair like in XP where you go through all the steps of installing and when it finds the existing C:\WINNT you choose repair. NOT!!

I'm going to do a new install on another drive and copy the data over.
Just haven't figured out how I'm going to get Exchange Mailboxes back.

YIKES!

 

You may have a current, good copy at C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386\ntoskrnl.exe that you can copy over to \system32. If not, you may need to expand a copy from the install CD but that may cause problems if you don't have a slipstream CD for whatever SP you are running.

Best to do this from the recovery console like you did fixboot. And don't be surprised if fixing one file causes the system to find another bad one and error on it.

Also a possiblility if you have space is to install a 2nd incidence of 2K with only the essentials and see if the thing will boot up that way.

sfc would be nice but I can't find any way to make it scan other than %SystemRoot% and my guess (haven't tried) is that it would only do system files on the OS load you were booted to. But maybe if you had the loads on different partitions and pathed to your problem drive to do sfc /scannow it would do that drive.

 

Well I installed a new OS on another drive and plucked off most of the critical files on the origional drive.

Is there any chance I can recover Exchange mail from the old drive?
If so where would it be?
I'm assuming it's located in C:\Program files\Exchsrvr

Any help would be appreciated and possibly save my job.

 

priv.edb contains all of the mailboxes

pub.edb has the public folders (if any)

However simply copying these is not going to be enough, you will need the log files as well.

This is why you should always have exchange databases on seperate drive to the logs and preferably the logs on a different drive to the O/S

When the original NTOSKNRL message appeared could you get at the boot.ini and check it, it may simply hve been pointing at the wrong partition

 

Thanks for your reply.
I installed everything under C (I know big mistake) I learned my lesson.

I found 2 files under C
Exchange Server Setup Progress2.log
Exchange Server Setup Progress.log

Under C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr I have the following folders.
ADDRESS
BIN
CONNDATA
ExchangeServer_MBPSERVER
exchweb
Mailroot
MBPSERVER.log
MDBDATA
MTADATA
RES
SCHEMA
srsdata

I found the following files as .edb
priv1.edb C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr \MDBDATA
pub1.edb C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr \MDBDATA
tmp.edb C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr \MDBDATA
srstempl.edb C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr \srsdata

As you can see the server name was MBPSERVER

Thanks for your help.