Applying SP2 and installing the Integration Services did the trick. Thanks all

Thanks to all. I used Williams and Michael suggestion and that seems to have cured it. Thanks again ! - Ram

There are no jobs running and I am not using QA. I have a job setup which is failing. To restore manually I right click on the db in EntMgr...

Yes, I am using WITH REPLACE. However, I am not using WITH MOVE as the location structure is the same as the production server. There is only one app database...

Thanks to all, I left the server as it was and this morning when I came in all seem to be fine. It turns out that a colleague was doing...

Yep,

I can see the registered server and I can even see all the jobs although I can't run any.

When I try to run a job say back up it...

Thanks alzdba, really appreciate it. Regards

Sorry, my colleague has posted this thread earlier.

Many thanks Jeff. I will give it a try and let you know. Best Regards

Yes, thanks again, My DB is now up and running on the new server. I re-booted my PC and that cured it. I can now see the tables etc. Best...

As promised, I am reporting back. In QA I got the message that the restore was sucessful. Also in EM I was able to see a list of all the...

How can I thank you all, I don't deserve to be a DBA. I put in the missing comma as suggested and the restore has started. I have been staring...

the directories do exist as I created them (H:\mssql\data) but not the files.

I even tried creating empty file in the right directories but got same errors. Will try using REPLACE....

Thanx all. I feel confident now. Regards