Hello, I am using server 2003 just to manage a few computers. The other week something was deleted that shouldn't have been and when I try to use any kind of data recovery software that scans your system for recoverable data, the server automatically shutsdown. It seems like there is some kind of security breach that the system has in place but I do not know where to change it. It is like when a certain file (or registry entry) is trying to be scanned it will shutdown. Can anyone help me?

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If you are trying to recover a deleted file from a drive, it certainly shouldn't 
be mounted or be in use.

The proper way to do this is to plug the drive into a different PC as a slave and 
let the software run to recover the data.  The more you use the drive the more chance 
you have of overwriting the data and making it unrecoverable.

Specifically, what program are you trying to use to recover the data?

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Thank you for your reply. I understand what you are saying and I usually connect the drive to another PC but in this case I can not. I have recovered many files while drives are in use and this particular drive is hardly ever written to so I know it is still there. I use the undelete. There is some setting in server 03 that I know I need to change to allow programs to access all files, registry, etc, I just do not know where it is, LOL.


On Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 8:07 pm, appleoddity wrote:
>

>If you are trying to recover a deleted file from a drive, it certainly shouldn't
>be mounted or be in use.
>
>The proper way to do this is to plug the drive into a different PC as a slave and
>let the software run to recover the data. The more you use the drive the more chance
>you have of overwriting the data and making it unrecoverable.
>
>Specifically, what program are you trying to use to recover the data?
>
>

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