+What you can do is copy your private and public stores (*.edb) to another location, Install your MX with the same organization name and site name, retsore all the mailboxes (maybe from a CSV. Stop ypur informatuion store service and overwrite the new edb files. From command prompt in your exch\bi9n folder run ISINTEG - patch. I have done this thousands of times and is guarantyeed to work as long as you put in the same site name and org name -----Original Message----- From: Greg [mailto:ghermida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, 21 February, 2004 9:53 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange 5.5 died.... http://www.MSExchange.org/ Yesterday, our firewall was breached, the a trojan virus was placed on an internal server, and basically ground the network to a halt. In the 18 hour day and night long process, our win2k OS hosting the exchange app took a header. It's a single site, single 5.5, on a win2k server in a NT4 domain. C:\ contained the programs, d:\ contained the public info store, & e:\contained the private store. When I rebuild the OS and reinstall exchange, when I specify the where I want the DB's to end up (in the same locale), will it find the existing public and private db's and overwrite them?? Or will it find them, see that they exist, and take that into account. I have backups so I think I'm covered, I can always apply the weekend full backup and apply the weekday incrementals, but I was hoping to recover the damn thing a little quicker. ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------