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I don't think even MS will attempt to fix the issue as 2000 is out of support OS<br />
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Not sure if premium ticket (A grade) can allow to do this but they will charge $$$ hourly basis most probably<br />
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instead I suggest you to rebuild the server from scratch may be with latest OS (Windows 2008 at minimum)<br />
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Mahesh
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Even though 2000 is out of support they should be able to do a &quot;best efforts&quot; attempt. MS ticekts are not hourly they are per incident. <br />
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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..<br />
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I opted for a chkdsk upon boot up. Now it's starting back up. let see how it goes..<br />
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I will advise shortly. Thanks again
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Great to hear!<br />
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Will.
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:<br />
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Accepted answer: 250 points for seth2740's comment <a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28337344/Windows-2000-Repair-NTDS-dit-Single-DC-no-system-backups-available.html?anchorAnswerId=39777483#a39777483" rel="ugc">#a39777483</a><br />
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for the following reason:<br />
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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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Hello,<br />
<br />
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..<br />
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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.<br />
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Command outputs generated error such as:<br />
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Operation terminated with error -1811 (JET_errFileNotFound, File not found)<br />
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Is there any special software or utility that maybe able to successfully repair this?<br />
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or am I stuck having to rebuild the server? :\<br />
<br />
thx
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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

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