[dba-SQLServer]Can anyone give me personalized help

John If you want to try later today, give me a hollar on Msn Messenger 
and we can try remote connectivity to your pc. and walk through the problem.

John Colby wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I replaced my hard disk in my server and now I am not getting a successful
> SQL Server install.  It appears that it runs, I can start the server, but as
> soon as I go into Enterprise manager and attempt to drill down to the server
> under server group, it stops the SQL Server (the icon in the toolbar goes
> red), hangs for a long period (60 seconds or so?) with "Establishing
> connection to SQL Server and checking security" in the status bar of
> Enterprise manager.  The server eventually displays but there are no
> databases at all in the database window, not even the system databases, and
> if I attempt to look at some other pieces under there one of them causes a
> gpf and EM closes.
> 
> Something is seriously wrong, and all my billing data is in a backup waiting
> to be restored.
> 
> I told it to use an existing directory that already had my old database in
> it when I did the install.  Could that be the problem?
> 
> 
> 


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