So in my previous post I menetioned a slight problem, I thought I would share my log of the repair process in case you find yourself in a similar situation.

Disable Exchange Service, let’s not lose any mail in the process

Restore C Drive to alternate location on usb drive, just to have these files on hand, we know C: is hosed

Fly to Sunny California

Download update bios & firmware, burn to cd’s

Flash Intel Serverboard bios

Flash Intel Raid controller firmware

Boot to Shadow Protect IT Edition, to use it’s tools
Unfortunatley I had not had a chance to image this system yet.
Btw Storage Craft’s great support bailed me out in this disaster, as I lost my IT edition disk and they were able to provide an ISO first thing Monday morning.

Delete C partition

Create C partition bootable (sorry can’t do bootable)

Boot to sbs cd1 repair console

Bootfix, sucessful

Bootcfg, fails

Verify boot.ini

Copy files from alternate restore location on usb drive

Copy root files from backup to xp machine, remove attributes

Copy to root of server from repair console, ntldr snd ntdetect will still not copy

Boot to IT Edition again, find clean spot to install w2k3

Start gold w2k3 install to W:, not going to be time efficient

Contact kb get download of SBS R2 w/slipstream beta I just tested for them, Thanks Kevin !

Do Time bombed install to G:, no key

Boot to DSRM

Do system state from 6/24/07, pre original corruption

Disconnect Internet Cable

Boot to OS I hope, yippee it boots

Do online exchange restore of 7/27/07 bu, it fails

Do offline restore of the 3 chunks of mdbdata to original locations

Reboot, stores mounted :>)

Breathe

Verify mail via owa locally, we got mail

Connect Internet Cable let mail flow

Send and receive test message, we are talking to the world

Logon to bookkeeping station, ok

Test 4 QB Data Files, one needs to be rebuilt

Rebuild successful.

Logon to Kenny’s station, logon denied

Take off domain

Put on domain

Logon OK profiles intact

Logmein to remote, verify mail flows via Outlook Anywhere

Image Server with SP IT

Set backup to run tonight

Go to hotel for the evening, 11 hours is enough for one day

Logon to marketing station, logon denied

Take off domain

Put on domain

Logon OK profiles intact, CRM will not open, credential problem

Duh moment, I rolled system state back to before CRM rollup 2 was applied, system grumpy

Apply CRM rollup2 and reboot, CRM opens fine now

Logon to sales station, logon denied

Take off domain

Put on domain

Logon OK profiles intact

Logon to process station, logon denied

Take off domain

Put on domain

Logon OK profiles intact

Logon to lab station, Logon OK profiles intact

Logon to shipping station, logon denied

Take off domain

Put on domain

Logon OK profiles intact

Logon to accounting station, Logon OK profiles intact

Need 4 updates on server from wsus allow all 4 and reboot

Delete demo install and gold install used to restore system state

Reconfigure backup to run regularly

Re-enable offsite copy scheduled task

Verify Hazard Waste database is operational

Clear Logs

Grab jpg of drive layout save to C:\

Grab ipconfig /all save to C:\

Image again with Shadow Protect IT

Install Shadow Protect Server

Give Kenny the good news, no data lost everyone back online

Goto Bella Vista tonight to celebrate :>)

Tomorrow back to hot and humid North Carolina