Re: MSDTC not coming online after quorum change?

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From: "Russ Kaufmann [MVP]" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 19:41:12 -0700

"UselessUser" <UselessUser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9E9B9B01-9AE0-4885-BDF0-A31F92220622@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

Not sure how to do this but I am trying to change the quorum disk onto
another disk. I have shutdown all other nodes so I have one active 2003 SP2
Enterprise node active to which the new disk is added. Here is what I do...

Quorum is currently Q: drive. Cluster group has MSDTC resource inside.

Add new disk, initialize, format and assign letter T:

Copy files and folders in Q into T. Right click cluster and change quorum
resource to T:, then take Q offline and change the dependencies so that Q is
no longer referenced and T is... I then restart the group and everything
comes up except the MSDTC... which gives errors with eventid's such as 4394..

How do people get around this?, is it because I have a new drive letter, or
is it because of something else?!

Remove the MSDTC and recreate it following KB 301600

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