Hi,

After I failed with demoting the domain controller in
windows 2000 using dcpromo wizard, I tried to remove the
domain controller in both ways ntdsutil (metadata cleanup)
and ADSIEdit.

The errors I received In ntdsutil is :

"DsRemoveDomainW-Error 0x2162."

and in ADSIEdit is :

"The requested delete operation could not be performed"

Thank you for your reply,

Did you follow the steps in this article
216498 HOW TO: Remove Data in Active Directory After an Unsuccessful Domain
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=216498

Other good references
332199 Using the DCPROMO /FORCEREMOVAL Command to Force the Demotion of
Active
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=332199
230306 HOW TO: Remove Orphaned Domains from Active Directory
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=230306

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"Bassel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> After I failed with demoting the domain controller in
> windows 2000 using dcpromo wizard, I tried to remove the
> domain controller in both ways ntdsutil (metadata cleanup)
> and ADSIEdit.
>
> The errors I received In ntdsutil is :
>
> "DsRemoveDomainW-Error 0x2162."
>
> and in ADSIEdit is :
>
> "The requested delete operation could not be performed"
>
> Thank you for your reply,
>
>