server crashed

re-configure IIS

[LifeinAsia]

So our web server crashed. The drives were mirrored, but can't get the mirrored drive to boot.

So reinstalling Windows (Server 2000). It looks like all the data is still intact on the mirrored drive. Any way to copy the configuration data from that drive to the new installation of Windows?

[Ocean10000]

Only way I can think of is to get the mirrored drive to boot. Maybe do a limited restore with a boot disk.

[LifeinAsia]

Unfortunately, that's been an epic fail so far. :(

At this point, it seems like the path of least resistance will be to upgrade to 2003.

I have 2003 running on our other server, and was able to use the IIS Metabase Explorer and get all the web sites up and running there. (Although I wasted several hours before that in a mad scramble to manually setup the main sites.)

[LifeinAsia]

One other thought...

As an interim step, we put a fresh install of 2000 on another partition. (Original setup- drive 1: C, D, E partitions, all mirrored to drive 2. Broke mirrors, formatted drive 1, made partition F on drive 1, installed 2000 on partition F.) It now boots OK, but having trouble with some drivers (including the network drivers, so I still can't remote in).

To access the data, I've booted from a Knoppix CD and have access to all the partitions. Would it work to copy all the files from the C to F partitions while in Knoppix, then reboot to the F partition? Or would I just end up hosing the fresh install?