Help restoring mailboxes after a disaster

[jgavrish]

Lost some sectors on the email hard drive and outlook basically hung when you tried to access the email saved. Tried to do a ghost to the new hard drive but was a no go. Backed up the corrupted (I think) files.

Unfortunately the last backup I could locate was from some time ago and was able to get it running in a pinch. Because the email server was also a domain controller, the active directory got screwed up and would not talk nicely to the other DC. Ran it for a day until Thanksgiving and after chasing my tail for a few days decided to do everything from the getgo.

So, my dilemma is two fold. First I need to get the email from the day it was temporarily running and merge it with the new setup. I have set up a second storage group and can mount it. Exmerge will move mail between servers, but will it merge messages from one mailbox to the other on the same server?

Secondly, I need to try to recover the emails from the corrupted mailboxes. When I tried to do a restore before, it would not mount!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,

Jimmy

P.S. There are only about a dozen mailboxes, but some, mine especially, had several hundred emails with important info.