On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 00:26:02 -0700,
Berislav Lopac <berislav(dot)lopac(at)gmail(dot)com> 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?