nc
Sat Mar 29 13:23:12 PDT 2008
On Mar 29, 1:53=A0pm, Jim Behning SBS MVP
<jimbehn...@doesthisblockpork.mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:16:59 -0700 (PDT), nc <cipher7...@gmail.com>
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> >On Mar 29, 10:28=A0am, Jim Behning SBS MVP
> ><jimbehn...@doesthisblockpork.mindspring.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:24:58 -0700 (PDT), nc <cipher7...@gmail.com>
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> >> >On Mar 28, 4:44=A0pm, "Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-
> >> >wizards(dot)com> wrote:
> >> >> Hi:
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> >> >> Drive config? =A0Raid1? =A0Hardware or software?
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> >> >> How are your backups?
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> >> >> Larry
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> >> >> Please post the resolution to
> >> >> your issue so that all can benefit.
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> >> >> "nc" <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >> >> >I have an SBS 2003 Premium system that had bad sectors on the drive=
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> >> >> > The system would freeze if there was too much disk activity.
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> >> >> > Anyway, I ran chkdsk and after ten hours it supposedly fixed the b=
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> >> >> > sectors. However, now the system is stuck in a reboot loop. It bri=
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> >> >> > up the black Windows 2003 screen, and then reboots. =A0At least be=
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> >> >> > the system booted up.
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> >> >The computer guys supposedly setup a mirror. Unfortunately, the RAID
> >> >controller card was just being used as a hard drive interface with
> >> >master and slave. They never setup an actual array.
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> >> >I have an 80GB drive. For months the event viewer has been showing
> >> >drive problems. No one ever did anything about it. Then users started
> >> >to complain about slowness and freezing.
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> >> >I used Acronis to try and clone the drive. I stated that there were
> >> >unreadable clusters. So I ran chkdsk. It finished after ten hours, and=
> >> >then got stuck in reboot hell.
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> >> >The worst part is that the system runs medical billing software that
> >> >is in 4 parts. One application runs on SQL. The other runs on Oracle.
> >> >Then there are two other components. The app. was installed 5 years
> >> >ago so NO ONE has any idea where the software is. At this point I'm
> >> >thinking of just reinstalling the o/s on a new drive, and copying over=
> >> >what I can. Then on Monday I'll have to rebuild the entire domain.
> >> >Unless I can stop the rebooting, fix the bad sectors, and clone it.
> >> >I've spent so much time on this already that I'm almost resigned to a
> >> >reinstall.
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> >> GE had a product like that Centricity for practice management and
> >> Logician for EMR. We set up our server with a C: for the OS. A
> >> dedicated drive for the Oracle and a dedicated partition for the SQL.
> >> Have you tried to run a repair on the OS? In theory you can fix the OS
> >> booting problem.
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> >> Have you booted from your Bart PE so you can at least copy your SQL
> >> and Oracle data to another hard drive? Also make sure you copy and
> >> customization stuff.
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> >> It sound like if you get this server up and running you really need it
> >> to be set up properly. IDE for a doctors office that is heavily used
> >> is dicely. If you have a one doc office with 3 employees using just
> >> SQL or Oracle alone might be ok with IDE but not running both and
> >> certainly not without running hardware raid.
> >> See what SBS support is working on
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/default.=
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> >No backups for the actual O/S, but it looks as if they had the SQL and
> >Oracle data on another drive. So at least that's intact.
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> >I reinstalled SBS 2003 R2 Premium from the discs I got from the
> >office. Oddly enough, I see nothing in there for SQL. It installed
> >Exchange, but there was no mention of SQL. I tried all the discs and
> >don't see SQL in there. Am I missing something?
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> SQL is on the Premium Technologies disk along with ISA. Or your vendor
> supplied SQL.
> See what SBS support is working on
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It looks as if they are a missing the disk then. I see disks 1,2,3,
Outlook, and FrontPage. There's nothing else in there. Niiiiiice!