PDC Crashed, Pls HELP !!

[Jason]

Hi all,

I have a serious error in my Win2k PDC and need your advise urgently.

Recently my PDC was corrupted and I have 3 partition, named C, D and E
where E is for data storage. The D: has 30GB and E has 195GB respectively.
After
formatted, I realised D:\ still working while E:\ is unrecognised format,
hence I have no choice but to format E: as NTFS (which cause all data
being erased) but leave D: alone. As I checked from Disk management, D
drive is
NTFS.

Everything works fine for about 1 month. Now the new problem occured. I
received error as follows:

"The file or directory D:\ is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the
Chkdsk utility."

"The file or directory D:\ $Secure is corrupt and unreadable. Please run
the Chkdsk utility."

"The file or directory
D:\winnt\sysvol\domain\policies\{31B2F-........}\Machine\registry.pol is
corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility"

However, I couldn't run Chkdsk for D: as it says the drive is in RAW !!
I'm so worry now as I noticed one of my folder in D: is unreadable now,
furthermore, my ntds.dit etc all were all installed in D drive.

What should I do now? I have one backup for "system state" and one backup
for "Everything in my computer" when I used Windows Backup wizards. The
backup is stored in another server which has equal capacity.

Please help if you can. Thank you so much !!


Jason

 

[Paul Bergson]

Hopefully this is the only DC in your domain, but from the panic in the note
I'm going to assume it is. It sounds like you will need to use your back
up.

If you have additional DC's in your domain DO NOT do as defined below!

1) Disconnect your machine from the network
2) Rebuild the o/s on your d drive and try to make sure you have the
patch level as close to the same as when the back up occurred.
3) Make sure any services that were previously installed are on this
machine as well (DHCP/DNS/TS Licensing/etc...)
4) Promote the machine as the first dc in your domain.
5) Restore the machine from your system state
6) Install the system tools from i386\support\tools
7) Run dcdiag /v > d:\dcdiag.log
8) run d:\dcdiag.log and review the log file and make sure all services
are running normally
9) If all is running as expected reconnect machine back to the network

For a more complete definition see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...nologies/activedirectory/support/adrecov.mspx

--

Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, MCSA, CNE, CNA, CCA

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Jason,

This post is extremely similar to a previous post from you. It is usually a
bit confusing for everyone involved when someone posts the same thing two or
more different times.

It looks like Paul responded to this post while James responded to your
previous post.

Cary