My M: drive disapeared all of a sudden?

[09876543210]

I am running sbs2000 with exchange 2000. I looked this morning and my M: drive was missing. What should I do? Can someone please help? I greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

 

[Davetoo]

Check your event logs for a direction to look. Probably your IS and/or SA stopped for some reason.

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[09876543210]

My IIS is running what next

 

[09876543210]

I'm sorry my IS is running aswell what is SA?

 

[Davetoo]

System Attendant. Basically, make sure all your MS Exchange services are running that are supposed to.

What do the logs show?

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[09876543210]

I checked and made sure all exchange services are running. I also checked the mailboxes store and the public store in the exchange manager and they are not mounted. When trying to mount them an error message comes up saying that to make sure that IS and exchange manager service is on. So I make sure its on and hit the mount task again and the same error message comes up. There is a red down arrow on the mailbox store and the public store under the exchange manager. What should I do?

Most appreciative,

 

[Davetoo]

You should check the logs to see a direction as to what the error is.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[CypherMaster]

Hi Lander

Check if the user who is trying to start the service is locked (it happened to me too), and then restart the service.

Regards

 

[09876543210]

Locked? The user is administrator the one trying to Restart the services.

 

[CypherMaster]

In my case I use a clustered Exchange and the services must be started with a cluster admin user. So when this error happens is because this user is locked.

More: the system uses a virtual Machine to run, then, in this cases I just checked the machine to exist in the AD-Desktops and deleted it, then after restarting services the virtual Pc is created successfully, but mine is a clustered environement.


Tip: check if the lenght of logs has exceeded it's size. Check also space on this server.

Hope this helps

 

[Davetoo]

09876543210,

Have you bothered to check the event viewer (i.e. "logs") to see what errors Exchange is kicking out?

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[shrubble]

Is your C: drive almost full?

We had a user dump a huge amount of data into a (usually empty) shared directory on our Exchange server one day, almost filling the drive to within a couple hundred megs of its limits.

When I went into Windows Explorer on the server for something, the M: drive was gone, I almost had a stroke!

If you need some space, move your Veritas logs to another drive, regulate mailbox size, and most of all tell your users not to use that DAMN OUTLOOK JOURNAL!

deletion mistake
no I can't recover that
you didn't save it

-Shrubble

http://www.ishrubble.com

 

[dvientos]

Yeah same thing happen to me. Boot drive was basically full and it started dropping services and the first services it drops is the exhange services which causes the M drive to disappear.