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 Error when dropping a database

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Carat
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Posted - 2011-04-04 : 12:52:18
We made a clone of our Production SQL Server to another server but there went something wrong with 2 disks. The data on this 2 disks are lost.

Now I want to drop a database that is listed on the server but I got the following message:

"Database '' cannot be opened due to inaccessible files or insufficient memory or disk space"

The Data Files and Transaction Log Files don't exist anymore because they were put on the 2 disks that failed. So for now I have a database that is listed in the sys.databases DMV and has no Data Files and no Transaction Log.

Can anybody tell me how I can drop this?

The thing that I'm doing right now is copying a backup from the production SQL Server to the Clone server and restore the database. But this database is nearly 100GB big so it takes a while until it is copied.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks.
   

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