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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/02/57 11:45
(murrayb3024@gmail.com) writes:
> We set up a test box and having been trying to move an entire instance
> from our production server to this one. I have moved all my created
> dbs using the RESTORE WITH MOVE. Now I am trying to move the Master,
> Model, and msdb. This is where I am having trouble. On the production
> box the dbs are stored on D:\mssql$instancename\data. On the test
> server the data is stored in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
> Server\mssql$instancename\data. Also the server names are different.
> So I finally got the Master from production to restore over the test's
> copy. Now the instance will not start. I was trying to use the
> following code in cmd line to connect to the instace so I could then
> copy model and msdb:
>
> sqlservr -c -f -T3608 -T4022 -sINSTANCENAME
>
> When this is trying to connect I read it is failing and saying that the
> MDF and LDF may be corrupt or not there. The problem is it is now
> trying to look in D:\mssql$instancename\data instead of C:\Program
> Files\Microsoft SQL Server\mssql$instancename\data. Any ideas on how I
> can change this, or if I have to reinstall the entire instace, not run
> into this again?
Before you set off, did you look at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;224071?
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
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