How to restore .MDF file to other instance

Hi All
I need your help, one of my sql cluster crashed. I rebuild SQL Cluster with same instance name and cluster name. I want to know how to restore one of our user database .MDF database file. By mistaken i deleted .LDF file. And now i'm facing challenge
to restore .MDF file.
If anyone face this issue, please share you experience.
Regards
Rinks

I entirely agree with Dan that you should restore the database from a clean backup.
Since the cluster crashed, I suspect that the database was not shut down cleanly and in this case you will not be able to attach the MDF with the suggestions Dan made.
It is possible to what Paul Randall calls a "hackattach", but I am not going to describe this here. You will be able to access the database, but the database may be full of corruptions. So I really hope that you have a backup.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

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