I had win2K server crash due to a failing HD. I was able to take a ghost image of the failed drive even though it had many bad sectors. However, upon installing a replacement HD and dumping the image I get a error when trying to boot up regarding Ad.
Directory Service cannot start. Error status 0xc00002e1
I've tried repairing the file following all the microsoft knowledge base articles which suggest using NTDSUTIL etc etc but the nothing works. I don't care if I have to remove AD all together I just want to be able to get the server to boot up in normal mode without having AD loaded. I DO NOT want to have to wipe the machine clean and re-install .
Is there a way to uninstall or disable active directory from AD recovery mode?
When I try DCPROMO it tells me I can't run it because I'm in safe mode.
I have full access to other computers, ERD boot disk, etc I can remove the main drive and connect it to another machine as a secondary drive which will give me full acess to delete/change any folders i need to. Is possible simply to just delete the entire AD folder or something to that effect?
The client does not have ANY backup of ANYTHING so restoring is not an option.
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