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Urgent system state question.

Can I take a backup of the system state on an AD domain controller, replace the HDD, reinstall 2000 Server and do an authorative restore using the backed up system state data.

My problem is I have a single domain controller with a failing hard disk holding the system and boot files and need to replace it without losing the user information. ie. permissions, groups etc.

Any other solutions welcome. I have already tried ghosting the partition / disk, mirroring the drive but in both situations comes up with a disk I/O error.

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It should work however take a look at his link. What it descripes is not quite the situation you are in put it does have some pertinent info.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q249694


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Ghost has an option to skip/ignore defective sectors. This may allow you to ghost a working copy of your partition.
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Didn't solve my problem, but gave me a lot more to think about. Had to do a complete rebuild.

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