Hi All, I am using SharePoint 2007 with Sp2 farm having one index and two front end servers. Recently i have backed up one site collection and restore directly the site collection in size of 11 GB like from http://server/sites/site to http://server/sites/sitetest by using stsadm -o restore -url http://server/sites/sitetest -filename <filename.bak>. Unfortunatley site restore has been stopped in middle, so i tried to delete the new site "sitetest" but it throws error, The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070003). When i try to find the "sitetest" collection details in CA page, it shows only /sites/sitetest but nothing displayed information likes owner, content db etc... just blank only display. I ma having nearly 28 content DB for the web application where it resides. but i am unable to find the "sitetest" information in any one of the content DB's. kindly help me to how to delete the site. Saravanan

Hi Saravanan, I am not sure about your solution, but as your problem is URGENT i have few tips to share... 1. Try deleting site through stsadm command eg: stsadm -o deletesite -url <url> -deleteadaccounts <true/false> other examples: http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2008/03/15/complete-reference-of-all-stsadm-operations-with-parameters-in-moss-2007-sp1.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288016(office.12).aspx 2. Isn't their any way to restore site with override existing one ? (i am not sure, just an idea! ) 3. Try deleting the site through code eg... eg: SPSite oSiteCollection = new SPSite("http://Site_Name"); SPWeb oWebsite = oSiteCollection.AllWebs["WebName"]; oWebsite.Delete(); oWebsite.Dispose(); Hope I am close to your solution. Regards, Zia A. Shaikh

This is a formal warning. Saravanan T: If you continue to write that your questions are "very urgent" (or use other words that mean the same thing) I will delete them. I have warned you several times when editing out these texts and you have continued to say your questions (which aren't) are very urgent. Stop doing it NOW or face the consequences. Every poster here wants fast replies. There is no reason why you should be more important than anyone else. (Moderator) 2010 Books: SPF 2010; SPS 2010; SPD 2010; InfoPath 2010; Workflow etc. 2007 Books: WSS 3.0; MOSS 2007; SPD 2007; InfoPath 2007; PerformancePoint; SSRS; Workflow Both lists also include books in French; German; Spanish with even more languages in the 2007 list.

>I am not sure about your solution, but as your problem is URGENT i have few tips to share... Zia Shaikh Every post I have checked by this poster has included a text that says it is very urgent. I suggest in future that you do not rush to give answers to people who claim that their questions are more important than those of other people. Let them wait for an answer like every other poster to the forums. In fact why don't you give priority to people who don't claim their answer is urgent? (Moderator)2010 Books: SPF 2010; SPS 2010; SPD 2010; InfoPath 2010; Workflow etc. 2007 Books: WSS 3.0; MOSS 2007; SPD 2007; InfoPath 2007; PerformancePoint; SSRS; Workflow Both lists also include books in French; German; Spanish with even more languages in the 2007 list.

Hi Mike, Thanks for informing. In fact i saw that this poster is claiming that his problem is urgent, I thought he might have been given some task (in his office) and he is stuck in it - which might case trouble for his work/job, and on other hand their wasn't any reply to him, So I just shared few tips that I myself could follow in such case. Thanks once again and Noted your suggestion. Regards, Zia Shaikh.

I've tried these tactics and they do not work. They give the same error. Try this. You'll have to delete the site id from SQL, which is unsupported! We are upgrading anyways, so this is a viable solution for me... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jjameson/archive/2007/05/07/deleting-large-sites-and-recovering-from-the-failed-deletion-of-a-site.aspx