Ok, so i got it all sorted, apologies for taking so long to post my findings, but have been a bit busy, here goes:

Background:

I had a HP DL360 server which...

There were no entries in the NT eventlogs referring to SQL events, only an error number (which i cant remember) that referred to the actaul service and it unable to...

this may be a stupid question, but have you uninstalled the patches and try to re-run the job?

Hi, thanks for the response.

On the "new" SQL server, i have setup two local drives D and E (Data and Logs) and have already moved the system databases to these...