To test new installation and as a backup I made a mirror copy from the HDD with Exchange 2007using Ghost. On 'C' is only the Exchange program,all mail is on a separate disk. Using the mirror HDD set everything works fine, but I have no access to any adminsitration tools in Exchange 2007. Any reason why I cannot use the mirror set instead of the original installation?

are you on a seperate network, etc? Could be some name/IP conflicts going on.

Are you trying to use this in a test environment? You also need access to Active Directory so you should also make a mirror from your AD server Mind to keep them safe in a test environment and make sure that there is no connection between test and production Deli

It is the same network , same IP addresses etc, identical environment, only a mirror copy of complete C: with all software as backup and to test new installations.

No . it is not a test environmet, it's the identical productivity environment, It is the same network , same IP addresses etc, identical environment, only a mirror copy of complete C: with all software as backup and to test new installations.

Same active directory.

I hope that you have a complete seperate network to use this copy of your environment As I said, do you also have a copy of your DC running? What do you mean that you don't have access to administration tools You can't find it or you receive errors when starting the tools? Deli