Your problem basically has to do with space. Although you have specified that the installation should be done on another drive a lot of files are still copied on the system drive. Your key to making this installation work is freeing up space on the system drive, alternatively since you have about 23gb of free space on the other partition, you could look at using a product like partition magic to extend the partition size so that you can have more space on the system drive. The last alternative will be to fire up exchange on another machine on the domain. This option could be considered since you do not yet have any exchange data. Regards Seyi -----Original Message----- From: Andy [mailto:andy@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:32 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Failed Exchange 2003 setup part II http://www.MSExchange.org/ This is an update to a previous post. Basically I have tried to install Exchange 2003 on a Windows 2000 server running sp4. All the prerequisites have been met and dcdiag and netdiag didn't throw any errors. This is the only server on the domain. When first installed forestprep and domainprep ran without error. The next chain of events is a bit hazy as it was late at night, but I think the setup failed complaining of a lack of disk space. Disk space on the system drive was not high about 500mb, but I was installing onto E:. Only 3 services (info store, mta stacks and system attendant) are installed and there are no menu items for Exchange on the start menu. Some directories such as mdbdata are missing and there is no priv1 or pub1 files to be seen! If I run the install again forestprep and domainprep run fine and the final setup claims it needs 1mb and then completes without error. If I run it with the disaster recovery option I get the error outlined in the previous post i.e. "Setup failed while installing-sub component information store service with error code 0x80072030 (please consult the installation logs for a detailed description) You may cancel the setup or try the failed step again" and the Exchange log has the following entries [14:46:24] CAtomMDB::ScTakeAllStoresOffline (f:\titanium\admin\src\udog\exsetdata\components\server\a_mdb.cxx:3097) Error code 0X80072030 (8240): There is no such object on the server. [14:46:24] CAtomMDB::ScForklift (f:\titanium\admin\src\udog\exsetdata\components\server\a_mdb.cxx:259) Error code 0X80072030 (8240): There is no such object on the server. [14:46:24] mode = 'Disaster Recovery' (61959) CBaseAtom::ScSetup (f:\titanium\admin\src\udog\setupbase\basecomp\baseatom.cxx:842) Error code 0X80072030 (8240): There is no such object on the server. I guess this is because there are no databases to recover. I can't seem to uninstall it and can't think of any other options to try. TIA Andy ------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------