How to Verify Hard Recovery and Mount the Recovered Databases

This procedure describes how to verify hard recovery and mount the recovered databases.

Procedure

Wait for hard recovery to complete. You can examine the Application Log for events indicating successful completion of hard recovery. You can also inspect the temporary folder in which Restore.env is located. After recovery completes successfully, Exchange automatically deletes all files in this folder.
Using a command prompt, verify that hard recovery was successful by using the command Eseutil /mh [database filename].edb to examine each database header. The header should contain a line reading "State: Clean Shutdown." If the state is "Dirty Shutdown," hard recovery probably did not run automatically or recovery failed. You can correct the problem that caused the failure and then attempt hard recovery again using the procedure in How to Run Hard Recovery Manually.
After hard recovery has completed successfully, mount the database.
If appropriate, mount other databases in the recovery storage group.

The following figure shows a recovered database with several mailboxes in Exchange System Manager.

Recovered mailboxes in Exchange System Manager