The conclusion to my problem was that I was doing simple recovery backups anbd and then trying to restore both the MDF and the LDF but with simple recovery ldf's...

I dropped the device and then ran the headeronly under master db and got the below info.......any thoughts on what could be wrong with the backup?

When i ran the headeronly...

I ran the restoreheaderonly command and got this

Server: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 2, Line 1

Cannot open backup device 'd:\SQLServer\MSSQL\BACKUP\msdb_db_1_200502171829.bak'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error...

Now it runs data base reads loading and it just sits....the ldf and mdf are being restored to the proper directory but the DB remains loading.....ANd then I get this...

I am in single user and I went in an killed the other running connections now the backup device is off line?

Now I am getting this

Cannot open backup device 'Full_Bak'. Device error or device off-line. See the SQL Server error log for more details.

???

Jim,when I try to set single user mode and DBO only I get this messgage

Database options single user and dbo use only cannot be set at the same time.

Any thoughts

Thank you both for providing me your expertise. I appreciate the help and Jim/Jason......Jim I will post to the open forum in the future thanks....LYNN~~

Do I need to detach the the db to restore its telling DB in use?