RE: Restore DC from PDC Emulator

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Hi Ron,

If this is a test environment, it sounds like the easiset thing to do would
be to remove Active Directory on DC2 by running DCPROMO and re-install by
running it again after a clean reboot. If you are unable to get DC2 to run
DCPROMO, you might be forced to manually remove all traces of DC2 from your
AD by booting into Directory Services restore mode and cleaning up the
directory. Then just re-install your OS onto DC2 and re-run your DCPROMO to
clean up. If you need some assistance on the manual steps to remove DC2 from
your AD, just let me know and I will be happy to assist.

Jordan

"Ron" wrote:

> hello all,
>
> Ok call me stupid but i recently setup for testing two DC's and have not
> around to doing a back of the AD for both.
> I recently had a power outage and when the systems came back online DC2 had
> an error indicating the following.
> Message Box: lsass.exe: Security Accounts Manager initialization failed
> because of the following error: Directory Service cannot start. Error Status:
> 0xc00002e1. Please click OK to shutdown this system and reboot into Directory
> Services Restore Mode, check the event log for more detailed information.
>
> It seems DC2 seems to have lost its Domain under Computer Properties for
> Domain:*Unknown* is there instead of the real domain name.
> DNS was completely gone so i recreated the zone from
> %windows%system32\dns\backup and all looks fine.
>
> My PDC Emulator DC1 is working fine and had no issues.
> How can i restore the directory services for DC2 from DC1?
>
> Thanks,
> Ron
.

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