Move FSMO roles to an other DC, clean AD up so the old DC is gone. Reinstall DC, move FSMO roles back. That's the nice thing about AD, they don't care about a single DC, as long as you have an other one around :-)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bahta Nathaniel V Contractor NASIC/SCNA Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Crashed Root DC HELP! Hey all, My root DC which held the roles Schema master and Infrastructure master showed me the BSOD via inacessible boot device. I reinstalled the OS, restored the system state from DSRM, and it BSOD'D again. I have a corrupt system state backup most likely. Since this is the ROOT DC, is my forest going to die or corrupt slowly? I have had this happen before many moons ago at another company, and I lost the ability to add new objects to the domain. Does anybody know of a document covering just the ROOT DC restoration best practices or anything pertaining to the ROOT DC in that manner? Or does anyone have any lessons learned or suggestions for this dilemma. Dude where is your forest, Nathaniel Bahta General Dynamics Network Systems List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
