So I shut down a DC VM yesterday and go to turn it back on and get a hosed ntoskrnl.exe upon boot. Great, another learning experience brought to you by Tuesday, the new Monday. Restore the VM Backup from day before and still have the error. So the virtual disk has been fragged for a while. I try booting off install iso and restoring the file and get errors trying to restore the corrupt file, so the disk is really in bad shape. Last ditch effort I attach the virtual disk to another server and run chkdsk on it. Viola, It finds a ton of file and index errors and fixes them. Detach, power on DC and it boots up with no problem. So if I would have done that in the first place it would have taken me an whole five minutes. So the moral of the story is don't assume your backups are good. Even if you can restore them, if you haven't booted them then you can't be sure, what a pain.
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