This section describes how to recover the master database and to rebuild the master device. It assumes:
The master database is corrupt, or the master device is damaged.
You have up-to-date printouts of the system tables, listed in “Backing up master and keeping copies of system tables”.
The master device contains only the master database, tempdb, and model.
You have an up-to-date backup of the master database, and you have not initialized any devices or created or altered any databases since last dumping master.
Your server uses the default sort order.
You can also use these procedures to move your master database to a larger master device.
The Error Message and Troubleshooting Guide provides more complete coverage of recovery scenarios.
