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Rebuilding server, will workstations need to be removed and readded?
Our Windows 2003 standard edition server had a bad hard drive and has to be reinstalled. The server name and domain name will remane the same as on the original install and all hardware will be the same including the hard drive size. Will we have to remove the worksations from the domain and readd them to the domain in order keep them joined to the domain or is there a way to make the workstaions stay joined? Thanks P.S. we have RAID 1 but both drives quit working within a few days of each other, before we could get a replacement drive installed. Now we have a hot spare :-)
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I'm not clear on this - is the original 2003 install functional at all? If so, why didn't you just replace the bad hard drive? Further, you would not need to mess with the workstations if you setup a temporary 2003 server and made it a DC. Even a virtual machine running off a workstation would be sufficient.
If you only have a couple of workstations and don't care about profiles or security, then don't bother... but if the original server can be booted into windows at all and you want to save yourself potential headaches, I would definitely setup a second DC.
If you only have a couple of workstations and don't care about profiles or security, then don't bother... but if the original server can be booted into windows at all and you want to save yourself potential headaches, I would definitely setup a second DC.
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The origial server will not boot. So a fresh install is necessary. There are 30 workstaions.
What exactly is wrong with it? Are there no backups?
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The hard drives went bad, actually I do computer work for the company and they only want me there if something breaks. I was in last week and noticed that the controller had a bad hard drive. I informed them and they said fix it. I tried but the second drive of the RAID 1 had bad sectors and would not add the replaced drive to the RAID array. I told them this and here we are the only semi-working hard drive lost the sector that had the MBR in it so a fresh install is the only way. And yes they have a tape backup but they do not use it. Hopefully this will teach them that it is better to have an IT monitor their network a few hours a week and bypass spending all the money to rebuild the whole thing.
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