Disk with NTDS failing

Hi everyone,

I've got an SBS 2003 SP2 server. The disk on which NTDS resides (not the
boot disk), is failing, and keeping lsass.exe from starting. I can boot into
Directory Services Restore Mode, logged in as machine Admin.

My AD event log has events indicating that AD can't access its database,
such as this (event ID 508)

NTDS (412) NTDSA: A request to write to the file "C:\NTDS\temp.edb" at
offset 172032 (0x000000000002a000) for 122880 (0x0001e000) bytes succeeded,
but took an abnormally long time (122 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This
problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor
for further assistance diagnosing the problem.

SO:
How do I move directory services (x:\NTDS) to a different disk? Or if that
is impossible, recreate it on another disk?

Thanks,
Bryan

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