RE: Restoration of Domain Controller on Different Hardware System

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Hi Marc,

Following is my opinions:

1. We don't recommend restore Domain Controller on Different Hardware System

2. To locate the exact problem of the stop error, we need to analyze the
crash dump file. Unfortunately, we cannot help you analyze the dump file in
newsgroup. To trouble shoot this problem efficiently, I suggest that you
speak directly with a Microsoft Support Professional so that the crash dump
can be analyzed. Here are some articles that will help prepare you for this
call:

Blue Screen Preparation Before Contacting Microsoft
ID: 129845.KB.EN-US
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=129845

Gathering Blue Screen Information After Memory Dump in Windows 2000 or
Windows NT
ID: 192463.KB.EN-US
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=192463

For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) phone
numbers and information about support costs, please go to the following
address on the World Wide Web:
<http://support.microsoft.com/directory/overview.asp>

3. Following newsgroup appears to be more appropriate because migration
newsgroup mainly focus on the process of migration between domain.

microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory

Thanks for your understanding.



Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Hi,

I am currently trying to set up a test network environment at the company
I
work for in order to test a variety of things. We have a Windows domain
set
up in our regular network environment with two Windows 2000 Domain
Controllers (at our primary location) and two Windows 2003 Domain
Controllers
(at our other location). I have set up 6 computers off our network, and
need
to make one of them a domain controller.

So far, I have managed to restore the system state and system disk of one
of
the Windows 2000 domain controllers via Directory Services Restore Mode
to
this designated machine (HP Compaq dx2000 MT) in the test environment,
and
can boot it up in safe mode. However, try as I might, I cannot get the
machine to boot into regular mode - it constantly freezes at the splash
screen. The source machine (i.e. the current domain controller in our
real
network environment) is an HP ProLiant DL380 G3 Server.

I know that documentation suggests at this juncture to do a repair
install,
but I've tried that and it just makes things worse - I can get into
regular
Windows 2000 server at that point, but I've gone from SP4 to no Service
Pack,
and everything seems screwed up after the repair install, including
Active
Directory itself. I think it would be easier to figure out why the
machine
can't boot into regular mode and fix it than to do a repair install and
then
go through fixing everything that gets screwed up by the repair install.

Any help regarding this issue, or any suggestions are greatly
appreciated.
Thanks!

Marc


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