Removing an invalid Trust

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In a Windows 2000 Active Directory structure (will be upgraded when all of
our Domain controllers are on 2003) we currently show 4 domains under AD
domains and Trusts. I'll call them master.com, invalid1.master.com,
invalid2.master.com and valid.master.com.

Invalid1 and 2 were domains that had existed, were trusted - and then
someone removed those domain controllers without demoting them. They no
longer exist, and new servers with the old names (but not domain controllers)
now exist on the network - so even restoring them from a year ago would be
problematic. From what I was told about a month ago this person just
reloaded a server that was a DC for a child domain as a regular server. We
don't need the domain anymore, but they never demoted it before reloading it
and I want to remove the invalid trusts before it starts causing us issues.

I just want to remove the trusts for invalid1 and invalid2. I go to AD
Domains and Trusts, but I cannot remove them from here and validating them
just tells me that it can't contact the primary domain controller.

A "netdom trust /domain:master.com invalid1.master.com /remove /force" gives
me the error that "The requested domain could not be deleted because there
exist domain controllers that still host this domain."

A "netdom query /domain:invalid1.master.com dc" says "The specificed domain
either does not exist or could not be contacted."

Any suggestions on how I could remove these trusts for domains that no
longer exist?
.

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