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Move Exchange mailboxes to new database if old database cannot be mounted

How can I move user mailboxes to a new Exchange 2010 database if their old database cannot be mounted?  I cannot find a mailbox assignment field on the user or mailbox database properties.

At this point I need to simply leave the old database behind and have the users start using the new database, with new mail messages going there.

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Terry
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Do you have a backup of that database?
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That sucks. First thing you need to find out why you cannot mount the database. Is because of corrupted database or logs. To find that do some tests: http://www.virtualhelp.me/windows/579-exchange-2010-error-unable-to-mount-database


More on that: http://exchangeserverpro.com/restore-individual-mailbox-exchange-2010, pay attention to "Bringing the Restored Database to a Clean Shutdown State with ESEUtil[" part.
I have a (supposedly) clean shutdown state according to eseutil /mh.

I did not run /ml before, it says I have 3 log files that cannot be opened, error =1032.

Could that prevent mounting the db?
That can be the reason. If you only have 3 log files you can delete the logs and try to mount the database.
Those files were actually folders that were empty.  I deleted them and ran /ml again.  I now have "OK" after all log files in eseutil but the database won't mount.  I have a new error:
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Microsoft Exchange Error
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Failed to mount database 'Mailbox Database'.

Mailbox Database
Failed
Error:
Couldn't mount the database that you specified. Specified database: Mailbox Database; Error code: An Active Manager operation failed. Error: The database action failed. Error: Operation failed with message: MapiExceptionCallFailed: Unable to mount database. (hr=0x80004005, ec=-1215)
. [Database: Mailbox Database, Server: ].

MapiExceptionCallFailed: Unable to mount database. (hr=0x80004005, ec=-1215)
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That worked.  Removing the log files was the answer.