I have had an odd drive failure on my W2000 server where everything works 
properly except the SQL Server Enterprise Manager ...I probably need to 
unistall SQL Server then re-install. But I would like to back up the 
database first ...

Two questions ...

1. Will an uninstall of the SQL Server application delete the datafiles 
and if not, will the re-installed SQL Server application be able to 
recognize the old datafiles?

2. Obviously the proper way to deal with this is to have a backup ... but 
I don't know how to do one without the Enterprise Manager ... is there a 
way to backup a database from an ASP page?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Chip Dukes