May 8, 2006 at 1:48 pm
I had a RAID failure, which wiped out my whole data disk. I am now missing all my data files, including master, etc, from my server. No backups yet, of course. Fortunately, this is a startup system, so there is nothing but some experimental DBs installed. Is there a way to recreate all the system DBs? I tried a re-install, but because I have all the modules installed, it wouldn't go any further. I wanted to ask y'all before I go through the blood, sweat and tears of uninstalling SQL Server and starting from scratch.
Michael Lee
May 8, 2006 at 3:00 pm
From BOL:
start /wait <CD or DVD Drive>\setup.exe /qn INSTANCENAME=<InstanceName> REINSTALL=SQL_Engine REBUILDDATABASE=1 SAPWD=<NewStrongPassword>
That sounds like it should do the trick... From within BOL you can use the following link to get more information
ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/instsql9/html/df40c888-691c-4962-a420-78a57852364d.htm
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May 8, 2006 at 3:29 pm
I bow to your superb intellect! Thank you! It worked!
Michael Lee
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