Raj, Thanks for the reply. I was doing nothing with the server when it restarted. I have, however fixed the problem. I found Microsoft article Q176239 about the edb.chk file. I disabled circular logging the other day trying to fix a problem with Arcserve backup errors. I ran eseutil /r/ /ds and received an error 1811 Jet_err FileNotFound. The other research that I did reiterated what the MS article said. I took a chance and tried the fix in the article even though it was not recomended with circular logging turned off. I moved the edb.chk file to another location and tried restarting the services, and it worked. It appears that no data was lost. Since turning off circular logging didn't fix my backup error problem, I'm thinking of turning it back on again. Any thoughts on that? Thanks for the help! Chris -----Original Message----- From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:Raj.Periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:19 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: HELP! Services will not start http://www.MSExchange.org/ How did the server crash? Were you trying a restore when it crashed? Give the exact event log error message to analyze more. Regards, Raj -----Original Message----- From: Chris [mailto:ccerer@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:32 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] HELP! Services will not start http://www.MSExchange.org/ Hi all, need some emergency help! My Exchange server crashed. Stats: W2k, sp2; Exchange 5.5, sp4. Services will not start, event viewer showing error 1811. All research i've done points to log file problems, but I don't know what to do. Help! TIA! Chris ------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------ ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: raj.periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub') ------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------ ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: ccerer@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')