Restore AD Domain Cotroller.

[Guest]

Greetings
I've been trying to restore a domain controller onto a different hardware trough reinstallation and restore from backup process(original Win2k system state backup/restore) and had a blue screen every time it boots up after the restore finishes. I followed Microsoft's considerations for restoring onto different hardware but still no luck
My question is:" Is there a way to transfer Active Directory users accounts ,groups and passwords to a some kind of a database or a file that can be easily imported back in without going through the full system state restore process? Can I simply copy Sysvol,Ntds.dit and the logs to a new server? Will Active Directory Migration Tool help?
Thanks

 

[DW]

Any chance of just promoting this new hardware,
transferring all the FSMO roles and making sure the GC is
enabled and then demoting the older one? Seems to me
that'd be the easiest and safest way

-----Original Message-----
Greetings!
I've been trying to restore a domain controller onto a

different hardware trough reinstallation and restore from
backup process(original Win2k system state backup/restore)
and had a blue screen every time it boots up after the
restore finishes. I followed Microsoft's considerations
for restoring onto different hardware but still no luck.

My question is:" Is there a way to transfer Active

Directory users accounts ,groups and passwords to a some
kind of a database or a file that can be easily imported
back in without going through the full system state
restore process? Can I simply copy Sysvol,Ntds.dit and
the logs to a new server? Will Active Directory Migration
Tool help?"

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry, disregard my last post, didnt read the question
correctly. Did you try an "in place repair" (booting from
windows cd and selecting repair after License agreement
screen) ?

 

[Guest]

Yap,I ran it and have got the same results - "blue screen". I guess I'll give LDIFDE a shot , it might work
Thanks!