i was able to restore the master database, the problem was that after i did this, i used  the "sqlservr.exe " , so that i could restore the other databases, and...

will do , thanks

Thanks will try that also, but what i did as a temp fis was to drop the msr_incent table and rebuild it, and for some reason the dts worked

nope. did not work, still getting thesame error

that would certainly explain it, but here is the kicker. This is the proposed work around by microsoft, for the error, that the full text catalog is generating.

 "unable to build...

yes it does.

Thanks a lot much aprreciated

Thanks a lot.

i found it weird too. especially since, whne you remote the box the server is sitting on and you open enterprise manager , you can see the dts...

Disk was full. Thanks.

Thanks, That was really helpful

Thanks guys, i have checked everything, and it all looks fine,

i will try the suggestion to

check my sql server settings by running dcomcnfg.exe from the command prompt and add the...

thanks will do

Thanks a bunch

Thanks soo much that did it. thank you thankyou

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