Andy,

I don't think that's possible. But below are couple of options.

1) You can move your data files to a different location when your server crashes. Hence the database will come...

I think it might give you a more descriptive error when it tries to delete the files than just an exit code of 1. Does the report show an attempt to...

Try re-creating the maintenance plan. I did see this behavior a while back but have not come across this in a while.

Brian is right. I didn't see that it was production.

You can do a nbtstat -a servername and see what domains your server is registered in.

you can also try to clear the buffers by executing dbcc freeproccache and see if that helps.

It seems that the setup is not seeing the shared disk resources. Can you please mention how you have the disk resources configured ?

Check this out.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c039a798-c57a-419e-acbc-2a332cb7f959&displaylang=en

You can use a truncate statement to make the table empty.  But this will delete all your data.

If you need part of the data, you can read the data required...

SQL Server will always start using the account which you specify under services. The SQL Server startup account does not need sa privileges to start sql services. The startup account...

You can grant sa access to NT Authority\System account if you are using local system account and want to revoke access to builtin\Administrator group.

Alert 18278 fires when log gets truncated. You can configure this.

If you are trying to attach all the files to a simillar location as the current server, you can use the script below. It will print out the script with...

Something you might want to try is add an entry for dbo in sysusers. It should have a uid of 1.You can copy the values for all the fields from another database. 

Please...

You are right brian. Need to verify whether it is NT or Active Directory.