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W2K AD recovery without having working backup.

Any ideas where to start to attempt a W2K AD recovery without working backups?

When I rebooted the server, there is NO domain, NO AD, NO E2K DB, and I have lost the M drive (where the E2K mailboxes were).

Fatal_Exception

When you say lost the M drive, what are the circumstances..?? Will the drive even spin up..?? Got a feeling that if we cannot resurrect that drive, we may be in serious trouble here..

FE

sirbounty

Ew...this doesn't sound good.
Can you provide a little more detail? All that was done was the server was rebooted?
Any error messages? Check Start->Run->Eventvwr for errors in your system logs...

sirbounty

FE - M is the partition Exchange drops the DB on (my apologies if you knew this already)

Fatal_Exception

Ah yes... I don't play with Exchange much.. thanks..!!

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infradawn

If I asked: "do you have at least 2 DCs in your AD forest/domain" would the answer be yes? (BTW, the correct answer is yes!)

iD

bkoehler-mpr

Is your MSExchangeMTA service running? If not stop IIS, start the MTA (Message Transfer Agent Stacks Service), then restart IIS.

CrisAndrei

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no MSExchange has failed to load .
Their backups are corrupted as the site person has not checked them and they normally only have a 5 day backup regime.... sorry I have taken so long to respond, but I have been poking around the server hardware to try to se what the problem is exctly.

When i try to connect to the domain.local it comes up with error saying that it is unknown.

I am about o do another server reboot now, and see if I can recover anything ....
back in a little while.

Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

CrisAndrei

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strangely I can still now telnet to the Exchange server !!!!

Fatal_Exception

Doubt whether this will help, but have you tried stopping and restarting the Netlogon service..??

shahrial

Diagnosing and Troubleshooting Active Directory Problems:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/samplechapters/dsbi/dsbi_add_vost.asp
Try this...

CrisAndrei

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I had to rebuilt the server, and now I am back to the original Exchange 2000 problem.
Can't get inbound email..... grrrrrrr