Jpotucek ,

Does this procedure restore/copy the jobs too?

Thanks,

Ed.

I am running a few fulltext indexes.  What we did so far was to stop the services copy the files and move them over to the new server and restart...

Actually in SQL 2000 you can use pwdencrypt('password') and change the data type of the field to varbinary and no one can read the data in that field.  To compare...

Thanks for all of your suggestions.  The last comment was correct, I needed to use a domain admin account that is used for starting sql services.