Thanks for article. Im not sure where to begin but we had some databases for sharepoint and wanted to use the search feature within sharepoint application which is the full text search but unfortunately the Service Full Text Service has been corrput and there are no registry settings. We are planning for a complete install of SQL and restore master but this seems way over kill to me. If you know of of anything to get the FTS back up without a restore im all ears. It seems it got corrupt around the same time that sharepoint was trying to be configured with full text indexing....