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Issue back ground:

Content database for the above site /itxxxxx  was moved to a new  drive with in the same server ,after which the database was corrupted 

I tried restoring the content database(stsadm -o restore -url "http://site/itxxxxx"  -filename "D:\BACKUPS\itxxxxx.bak" -overwrite) It has  created an .mdf file with some random name  stxxxxx_content.mdf  (no idea why it happened ) and the restoration was failed with below error

The site collection could not be restored. Please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space

*The Database had enough  space as i kept an eye on the space during restoration*

As a final resort i deleted the site collection and created a new site collection with the same name (users are so used to the name so can not change it)

here my idea was to create a new site collection and then restore  this new empty  site collection with the back up i have.

after the site collection was created as you can see , i ended up with the above error (image) .

I tried deactivating and reactivating the publishing feature and it throws below error :

Failed to deactivate feature 'PublishingSite' (ID: f6924d36-2fa8-4f0b-b16d-06b7250180fa) from scope http://xxx/itxxxx

I guess this may be an issue with the navigation structure stored in sharepoint . Any ideas ?

Thanks,