Solution to iis startup failure when the metabase. xml file is damaged

Solution for iis startup failure after the metabase. xml file is damaged or accidentally deleted or overwritten

Today, I changed the size of the uploaded attachments to a server and accidentally opened metabase. xml on the WordPad. Some Characters in the result were changed to "?". The xml format is incorrect. IIS cannot be started. I was planning to reinstall IIS, but I found that there is no system disk on hand. I accidentally saw a History folder under the inetsrv directory, there are metabase in different time periods. copy the xml file and replace it with the wrong one. Metabase. xml error the error message prompted by the Event Viewer: the IIS Admin Service is stopped due to a 2149648394 (0x8021080A) Service error. For more information, see Help and Support Center in http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. An error occurred while parsing the XML file. Cause: there should be a string, but the left quotation mark cannot be found. Incorrect XML: Name =? UnknownName_61506 "ErrorCode: 0xC00CE502Interceptor: 14 OperationType: PopulateTable: MBPropertyConfigurationSource: file: // C:/WINDOWS/system32/inetsrv/MetaBase. xmlRow: 512 Column: 8