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I couldn't get &quot;ntdsutil files repair&quot; to work because I believe it was the wrong syntax. &nbsp;I believe &quot;repair&quot; should be &quot;recover&quot; but no luck using &quot;recover.<br />
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I then followed your instrucstions for &quot;esentutl&quot; and it worked perfectly!<br />
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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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Success!

I couldn't get "ntdsutil files repair" to work because I believe it was the wrong syntax.  I believe "repair" should be "recover" but no luck using "recover.

I then followed your instrucstions for "esentutl" and it worked perfectly!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

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Hi,<br />
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One of my DC's is failing to boot because the ntds.dit file has become corrupted. &nbsp;I can only boot the DC in Directory Services Restore mode. &nbsp;This DC is also the Global Catalog server in my domain of 3 DC's. &nbsp;I'd rather not do a forced demote on this DC because I'd then have to make another DC the Global Catalog server in the process.<br />
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Can I just simply copy the ntds.dit file from one of the other DC's and replace the corrupted file?<br />
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Thanks.
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Hi,

One of my DC's is failing to boot because the ntds.dit file has become corrupted.  I can only boot the DC in Directory Services Restore mode.  This DC is also the Global Catalog server in my domain of 3 DC's.  I'd rather not do a forced demote on this DC because I'd then have to make another DC the Global Catalog server in the process.

Can I just simply copy the ntds.dit file from one of the other DC's and replace the corrupted file?

Thanks.

ntds.dit file is corrupt on one DC.  Is it ok to simply copy the same file from a good DC and overwrite it on the bad DC?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).