QUESTION POSED ON: 20 February 2004 I had a Win2k server fail one day with an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
error. We reloaded a second instance of Windows but we had SQL Server 2000 on
it with two databases. How do I get that back without losing the
databases?
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EXPERT RESPONSE
Install SQL Server. Run sp_attachdb to reattach the databases.
Alternatively, you can take all of your backups beginning with master
and restore each one of them, which would get you back any logins that
you may have created as well.
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