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>Thanks for the suggestion butI am still having the problem after running chkdsk. I thought maybe the problem was due to space constraints so I truncated some tables with unnecessary data, shrunk the data and log files, etc. to no avail.
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>>>I cannot remote login to the server once it freezes as the server does not respond to outside requests or internal ones. I have not tried pinging it after it freezes but I would not expect this to return a reply.
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>>>>Have you tried to remote login into the frozen server (using RDP)? Does it respond to pings?
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>>Uhmm, a long shot, but I would run a chkdsk command with the /f switch on on the system drive.... Sometime that has unstuck similar situations for me. Apparently there might be a currupted but hopefully recoverable file.

Bob,
Can't say. I think it is an issue with the different SQL versions and OS.... Is this the only database in the Express edition?
-R!