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Looks like a failed DC - Best course of Action?
Hey,
Looks like one of the DCs has failed on the site that I'm one at the moment, shut it down to move it down a couple of U to make space and it wont boot, keeps failing at the applying computer settings part in Safe Mode, Directory services restore mode and last know good configuration.
I was going to virtualize one of th DCs anyway so I'm pretty happy to just virtualize a new one now and clear up the meta data of the DC manually. I had to do it a couple of years ago when a power surge took a DC out on another role.
I would however like to know why it isn't booting up because it's really annoying me. Can I take it off the network and run a windows repair on it without destroying the event log information? I may also run a system state restore on it after that just so that I have the luxury of being able to dcpromo it to remove it afterwards rather than have to perform a meta data cleanup.
Actually now that I think about it I could break the raid on the OS as it's raid1 and attach the drive as a second drive so that I could get access to the logs that way.
Anyone had to deal with something similar before?
Cheers
Looks like one of the DCs has failed on the site that I'm one at the moment, shut it down to move it down a couple of U to make space and it wont boot, keeps failing at the applying computer settings part in Safe Mode, Directory services restore mode and last know good configuration.
I was going to virtualize one of th DCs anyway so I'm pretty happy to just virtualize a new one now and clear up the meta data of the DC manually. I had to do it a couple of years ago when a power surge took a DC out on another role.
I would however like to know why it isn't booting up because it's really annoying me. Can I take it off the network and run a windows repair on it without destroying the event log information? I may also run a system state restore on it after that just so that I have the luxury of being able to dcpromo it to remove it afterwards rather than have to perform a meta data cleanup.
Actually now that I think about it I could break the raid on the OS as it's raid1 and attach the drive as a second drive so that I could get access to the logs that way.
Anyone had to deal with something similar before?
Cheers