Sorry to say that we might have a major server problem. I might even have made it worse. Really worried and my heart keeps skipping a dozen beats. Running on backup server now. I think my weekend (at least) has just been ruined                                                                                                                                                                             

Big Hammer and poke with screw driver                                                                                                                                                                             

  I might even have made it worse.   Clumsy lad, stop fiddlin' lol                                                                                                                                                                             

Theres 2 drives in case 1 fails..1 is failing and I think the good one might have just become corrupted. Kinda by me in the process of fixing the broken one.

Please cross ur fingers for me.                                                                                                                                                                             

  I wotn eb albe ot ypte if I do                                                                                                                                                                               

lol good try though.   Main server back online now but I think it's corrupt.  Running on main server now while it tries to rebuild the GOOD disk from the BAD disk.  Already had 13 warnings/errors but I hope it continues and rebuilds ok.   4 more hours remaining, then I'll try to copy the main server to a new hard drive group (RAID) and see what happens.                                                                                                                                                                             

Gonna be bouncing the server a lot over the next couple of hours so I apologise in advance for all the downtime.  Sorry but I can't help it, desperately trying to save the server
                                                                                                                                                                             

It's dead  :-(  Wont start up                                                                                                                                                                             

If anyone can get it going,you can....things always go wrong at holiday times!! You are doing your level best Matt, please don't stress too much?? X                                                                                                                                                                             

Please can I ask people NOT to use BikerMatch this weekend unless absolutely necessary?   We're in total crisis, catastrophic failure!   I even smoked a cigarette for God's sake!! ME!                                                                                                                                                                             

ah soz to hear this matt.... darn viruses there is too many idiots out there... hope you get it sorted soon chuck and im sure im not the only one who mucho appreciates all your doin to save it...... got all me bits crossed for ya x                                                                                                                                                                             

i wish it was a virus!   Server hardware failed during backup... causing me to lose server AND backup!   Now all I have is a backup from May last year on DVDs but I don't even know if that's gonna work now                                                                                                                                                                             

Main server back online from an old backup. Gotta check/rebuild/repair it before moving the sites back onto it.                                                                                                                                                                             

Matt , I  guess it's times like these that we get to fully appreciate what your up against ! H ere's hoping it will be resolved and all the best HB x                                                                                                                                                                             

yea thanks.   Does anyone know how to retrieve the IIS config from the file system and registry without being able to boot into the OS?                                                                                                                                                                             

3am and still nowhere near finished.  :-(                                                                                                                                                                             

So what have I learnt?   That cigarettes do NOT help when you're panicking and stressing.  Really don't know how people smoke and enjoy it, it sucks.   Also learnt that having a good mate to talk to me and keep me calm has helped save the day.  I was freaking out!    Starting to look a bit better now.  Got an old (1 year old) backup restored.  Rebuilding the RAID now.  Need to rebuild the config on this backup as it's way out of date.  Upgrade mail service, apply updates to Windows, install new security software etc.   I don't see any sleep for me tonight                                                                                                                                                                               

Back on the main server now, it's not fully repaired though so I'm not holding my breath now.   Gotta leave the RAID rebuild going for a few hours.  Gonna try to get some kip.   Mods - please phone me if the site goes down.   Thanks                                                                                                                                                                             

Please feel free to use the server normally now.  It will run a bit slow for the rest of the weekend I think (70% of resources dedicated to rebuilding the data and checking integrity)
                                                                                                                                                                             

Matt you are a genius. Be lost without BM. Huge hugs coming your way.(((((Matt)))))