• Maybe give Microsoft's customer support a shout. I've heard of a case where the rebuild says it succeeded but didn't, not sure why that could happen. Calling CSS will be a lot faster than getting free assistance here.

    It isn't maybe a case where master is somewhere other than the default location and the rebuild put the new files in the default location?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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