Re: Actvie Directory Database Corruption >Event ID 467 > Index of table datatable is corrupted



Do an offline defrag (an option in ntdsutil). That should repair the index.

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"Sam" <sam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Dear All,
>
> We are asking for help with our Windows 2003 Small Business Server with
> Active Directory database problem.
>
> We have an Active Directory Database Corruption Error coming up as Event
> ID
> = 467 in the Event Viewer Log :
>
>
> Category : Database Corruption
> Event ID : 467
>
> Description :
> NTDS [696] NTDSA : Index INDEX_00020078 of table datatable is corrupted
> [0]
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> We have tried the following method but it did not work :
>
> 1) Boot into Active Directory Restore Mode
>
> 2) Run ntdsutil.exe from a command prompt
>
> 3) > File > integrity
>
> 4) After integrity check, the screens shows that :
>
> Database is CORRUPTED.
> Operation terminated with error -1206 ( JET_errDatabaseCorrupted, Non
> database file or corrupted db)
> Spawned Process Exit code 0xfffffb4a(-1206)
>
>
> 5) We tried to run " ntdsutil > file > recover "
> The screen said :
>
> Operation completed successfully in 1.2 seconds.
> Spawned Process Exit code 0x0(0)
>
> 6) When we run 'integrity' again, result is still the same as above in 4).
>
> 7) We tried to run "repair" (as recommended by some literature), but NO
> such
> a command exists under the menu inside : ntdsutil > file
>
> 8) We then run > ntdsutil > semantic database analysis, with screen as
> follows:
>> semantic checker : verbose on
> Verbose mode enabled
> semantic checker:go
> Fixup mode is turned off
> Opening database [Current] ... Done
> Getting record count... 7333 records
> Getting security descriptor count... 163 security descriptors
> Writing summary into log file dsdit.dmp.0
> SDs scanned: 7333
> Processing records..
>
> Error : Inconsistent SD refcounts detected !!!
>
> Done.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> We would like to get help from all the experts whether there are any ways
> to
> fix the Active Directory database corruption problem.
>
> Also we are wondering why the 'repair' option inside ntdsutil.exe does not
> seems to exist in out Windows 2003 Small Business server. Could anyone
> give
> some insight into the use of 'repair' command ?
>
> Many Thanks for everyone who could send helps of any kind.
>
> Best regards
>
> Sam Tsui
>
>
>
>
>
>


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