I'm glad that someone benefited .. you are welcome. That's why I love this community.

Scott,

Sounds good. Thanks a lot. I will give this a whirl.

ok this worked for me..... just in case anyone has to do this:

> RESTORE DATABASE master FROM DISK = 'C:\MINIDR\masterbackupfile.bak' WITH

RECOVERY, REPLACE;

2> GO

Problem solved.

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Can you point me to...