The first thing to do will be to find out why they went suspect. Check your ERRORLOG for information.

It could be that the disk didn’t respond correctly when the machine was rebooted and now it’s working fine, or it could be that the disk has failed completly.

Once you have resolved the initial issue depending on the problem you can flip the databases back into normal mode. This is done by changing the value of the status column in the sysdatabases table to 24. It’s probably at some really high number at the moment. This should give you access back to the databases. If they go back into suspect mode then either the disk problem hasn’t been resolved, the database files aren’t where SQL expects them to be, or the database has been damaged and needs to be restored from the last good backup.

<pre>exec sp_configure ‘allow updates’, 1
reconfigure with override

update master.dbo.sysdatabases
set status = 24
where name = ‘<i>YourDatabaseName</i>’

exec sp_configure ‘allow updates’, 0
reconfigure with override</pre>

You may need to restart the SQL Server instance after changing the status column for SQL Server to see the change.