Restoring an Exchange Database.....
Needless to say, I have done this quite a few times...... All of the instances have to be EXACT, the server name, the administrative group, the storage group. Those settings have to all be the same names as the previous server in order to get the store to mount. Your other option is (if you enabled the transaction logs) is rebuilding the database from the transaction logs. Here are some links....
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../dbrecovr.mspx
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;257415
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/...7489.html?Ad=1
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles...rticleID=27489
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;280652
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro.../disrec00.mspx
Hope this helps......
AH