On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 00:26:02 -0700, Berislav Lopac <berislav.lopac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Actually, my situation is like this: > > I had a properly running version of Postgres when my Windows crashed. I > Installed a fresh copy on Windows on another disk, and then Postgres on > top of it. Then I started the system from the new Windows, stopped the > Postgres service and copied the data directory from the old system to > the new one, but Postgres service refused to start. > > So it was not some kind of a backup copy, it was a regular directory of > another installation. That's pretty much the same thing. I think that approach should work. > Any ideas? What do your logs say?