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Windows 2008r2 total crash

I'm running a domain controller using windows 2008 r2 in a raid 1 setup. This morning it crashed and won;t startup past a cursor on a black screen before crashing again. I've tried
1 ,starting in safe mode 2) using redundant boot records 3)booting to second drive without any different result.
I then tried windows 2008 r2 install disc and repair computer option. No image was available. I then went to command prompt and tried SFC /scannow, I got error msg "A system repair is already pending..." I then tried "dism.exe /revertpendingactions" It tells me that ScratchDir may be too small to work, but I have atleast 3.5 gigs free on a 186gb SSD.

So now i'm stumped. Can someone give me a suggestion of what to do next? Thanks

Scott Silva

I am assuming you have no backups?
Unless you can find a third party utility that will do it , you might be out of luck...

You said that the repair disk didn't show any images... Did it see the drive? Or is it lacking proper raid drivers?

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Jonathan Kaplan

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I have an idrive cloud backup. Should i do a bare metal Install on new drives and restore from. Cloud?

Scott Silva

Worth a try. Does that backup software do a system state backup?

Jonathan Kaplan

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Yes it supposedly does

nobus

for running dism the free space can be too low
can you free up space?

Jonathan Kaplan

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Thanks a lot for answering my question. It turned out I didn't have a any backup worth anything. The system backup required the client to be the same machine (i.e., the same installation of windows)-- useless. So Ihad to recover data and rebuild he server from scratch. This time I doubled the disc size and used a hardware raid of SSD's. Hopefullly I can make sure the discs don't get filled up