Robert Perez-Corona
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Windows 2000 Repair NTDS.dit - Single DC no system backups available.
Hello,
My one and only Windows 2000 DC RAID controller crashed this morning and it seemed to corrupt my AD database since I am not able to log in. Upon windows services loading up I received an Issas error stating to reboot into Directory services mode..
So I did. I looked up all the NTDUTIL.EXE and ESENTUTL.EXE commands in order to repair/recover the ntds.dit db but no luck.
Command outputs generated error such as:
Operation terminated with error -1811 (JET_errFileNotFound, File not found)
Is there any special software or utility that maybe able to successfully repair this?
or am I stuck having to rebuild the server? :\
thx
My one and only Windows 2000 DC RAID controller crashed this morning and it seemed to corrupt my AD database since I am not able to log in. Upon windows services loading up I received an Issas error stating to reboot into Directory services mode..
So I did. I looked up all the NTDUTIL.EXE and ESENTUTL.EXE commands in order to repair/recover the ntds.dit db but no luck.
Command outputs generated error such as:
Operation terminated with error -1811 (JET_errFileNotFound, File not found)
Is there any special software or utility that maybe able to successfully repair this?
or am I stuck having to rebuild the server? :\
thx
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Even though 2000 is out of support they should be able to do a "best efforts" attempt. MS ticekts are not hourly they are per incident.
Will.
Will.
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thx for the pointers. I ended up correcting the path to c:\winnt\ntds\ntds.dit and used some other options and the repair process finished..
I opted for a chkdsk upon boot up. Now it's starting back up. let see how it goes..
I will advise shortly. Thanks again
I opted for a chkdsk upon boot up. Now it's starting back up. let see how it goes..
I will advise shortly. Thanks again
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Great to hear!
Will.
Will.
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:
Accepted answer: 250 points for seth2740's comment #a39777483
Assisted answer: 250 points for Spec01's comment #a39777597
Assisted answer: 0 points for tobe1424's comment #a39777748
for the following reason:
the syntax entered worked correctly
Accepted answer: 250 points for seth2740's comment #a39777483
Assisted answer: 250 points for Spec01's comment #a39777597
Assisted answer: 0 points for tobe1424's comment #a39777748
for the following reason:
the syntax entered worked correctly
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i ended up discovering the correct syntax with the help of seth and spec01
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seth's pointer helped me discover the correct syntax i needed in order to rebuild my AD db.
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sounds good to me
Not sure if premium ticket (A grade) can allow to do this but they will charge $$$ hourly basis most probably
instead I suggest you to rebuild the server from scratch may be with latest OS (Windows 2008 at minimum)
Mahesh