Need To Recover MSDB From Ldf And Mdf Files - No Backups

Jan 29, 2008

My scenario -

-Dev server lost all its raid drives (which included user data/log files and ALL backups)
-Raid drives were removed from server, so we could try and recover the data (not sure why they had to remove them)
-Recreating the user db's isn't an issue, but I REALLY need to retrieve the jobs from the MSDB (developer was working on dts package for the last 2 months, but didn't check it in to VSS)
-Since the System DB's (model, master, msdb) were installed on the C drive, I was able to recover their mdf/ldf files.


So we build an new server and recreated the user db's.
How do I go about getting the jobs data from the msdb database?

I've tried the following -

Started SQL server with the -T3608 and was able to detach the MSDB database, but when I go to reattach using the mdf/ldf files from the other server I get the following error message.

Error 5172: The header for the file 'C:mssqldatamsdbdata.mdf' is not a valid database file header. The PageAudit property is incorrect

I've been doing some research and found a lot of great articles on how to RESTORE (from backup - dont have) or Rebuild (wipes out the data I'm looking for) the MSDB, but not how to replace it with only the ldf/mdf files....

Any idea's would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

PS - All backups are now being copied to another server (lesson learned)

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