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Was this the sole Domain Controller in the domain?
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Try this process<br />
<a href="http://www.chrisleblanc.org/restoring-gpos-backup/" rel="ugc">http://www.chrisleblanc.org/restoring-gpos-backup/</a><br />
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You can try to create new GPO and copy content from original SYSVOL GPO into it after fixing any GUID references in it
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Sounds good, but I can't boot the broken server drive. &nbsp;Is there a path on the C Dr. where I can locate the GPO data?
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C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain\P<wbr />olicies
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I think the trick is you need a backup to import. If you can't boot the os how do you backup the gpo s? &nbsp;I think there may be a way to copy on top of a backup that you create on the new dc.
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I mean, it's not the end of the world if I need to rebuild the GPOs. I just remember reading somewhere, sometime, maybe in another lifetime, that somewhere on the C drive is a directory, usually it's named with the GUID of the GPO, and inside was all the policy data. Was hoping to use that to import into the new machine.
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I have just tested the following and it works.<br />
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Create new GPO and copy old GPO data into it, overwriting old data. Not ideal but works in a pinch
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I'm with you on that. Yes it does represent that (GUID). But I tried to import a copy of a gpo and it only looks to import a backup.
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If I were you, use Shaun's method and then recreate by backing up and importing to a fresh gpo or just redo a fresh gpo with the knowledge you have
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OMG that's a brilliant idea. We'll give it a try!
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Glad we could help.<br />
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Hi Experts,<br />
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We started configuring a customer's new domain controller, and put about six or seven hours into it. Most of the time was spent tweaking and testing group policies. &nbsp;For reasons I'd rather not get into, a hardware change was made and the drive is no longer bootable but I can still get to the data. The fact the drive isn't a bootable doesn't really concern me, because I can just reinstall the operating system and start over. No big deal. &nbsp;But what I would REALLY like to do is recover these policies so we don't have to re-create them. <br />
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Experts: Where can I retrieve those policies from the old drive, and how do I import them into a new domain controller?
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Hi Experts,

We started configuring a customer's new domain controller, and put about six or seven hours into it. Most of the time was spent tweaking and testing group policies.  For reasons I'd rather not get into, a hardware change was made and the drive is no longer bootable but I can still get to the data. The fact the drive isn't a bootable doesn't really concern me, because I can just reinstall the operating system and start over. No big deal.  But what I would REALLY like to do is recover these policies so we don't have to re-create them. 

Experts: Where can I retrieve those policies from the old drive, and how do I import them into a new domain controller?

Recover GPOs from a server HDD

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