Windows 2003 Repair in ads fail

Hi

We have 2 dc in windows 2003 R2...

named server01 and server02... server02 is additional domain
controller and replicating active directory with server01 & viceversa.

Due to powerfailure Server01 failed to boot in normal mode and giving
error "Directory Services could not start because of the following
error: The system cannot find the file specified. Error Status:
0xc000000f. Please click OK to shutdown the system and reboot into the
Directory Services Restore Mode, check the event log for more details
",

we tried to repair ntds.dit file in Directory resotore mode by
ntdsutils and esutils.. but no luck..

after that we tried to repair it by windows 2003 CD puts us in worst
condition..

now Server01 is neither booting up in "safe mode" or " directory
service restore mode"... as repair is failed , recovery console---it
just dumps in to completing setup , generates directory services error

--Note server02 is running fine with active directory...

Please help me to resolve the issue of server01...

Thanks

Hello debug,

Please avoid multiposting the smae problem with different subjects. This
cost you and us time to read and answer, also you will have to get the overview
of all.

See this article about and follow the outlined steps:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280364

If you can not repair it that way, you have to reinstall the machine like
stated in the article.

To reinstall you have first to make sure that the other DC is DNS and Global
catalog server and that the 5 FSMO roles are seized to it when it doesn't
have them, chekc with "netdom query fsmo" in a command prompt. Also you have
maybe to boot the broken server with a BartPE and copy data if it keeps shared
folders with files that a re not backed up.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi
>
> We have 2 dc in windows 2003 R2...
>
> named server01 and server02... server02 is additional domain
> controller and replicating active directory with server01 & viceversa.
>
> Due to powerfailure Server01 failed to boot in normal mode and giving
> error "Directory Services could not start because of the following
> error: The system cannot find the file specified. Error Status:
> 0xc000000f. Please click OK to shutdown the system and reboot into the
> Directory Services Restore Mode, check the event log for more details
> ",
>
> we tried to repair ntds.dit file in Directory resotore mode by
> ntdsutils and esutils.. but no luck..
>
> after that we tried to repair it by windows 2003 CD puts us in worst
> condition..
>
> now Server01 is neither booting up in "safe mode" or " directory
> service restore mode"... as repair is failed , recovery console---it
> just dumps in to completing setup , generates directory services error
>
> --Note server02 is running fine with active directory...
>
> Please help me to resolve the issue of server01...
>
> Thanks
>

Thank you very much for your kind support.

i hv completed seized all roles to bdc.. and bdc is also dns & global
catalog server

i hv also installed windows 2003 server again in first server ( pdc)

now how to configure active directory and dns to make as it was
earlier ?

i have to make it additional domain controller or first domain
controller in forest -- ?

please help me to solve this problem

Hello debug,

Remark at the beginning, PDC/BDC concept is gone since windows 2000, all
DC's are the same and can host the 5 FSMO roles according to some rules.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223346/en-us


So it doesn't matter in your case that the older DC has them now. If you
still like to move them back to the other DC:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324801


Configure the DC with the PDCEmulator role to an external time source:
w32tm /config /manualpeerlisteers /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update

With "peers" you can set the time source, either DNS name (time.windows.com)
or an ip address from a reliable time source.

Here you can find some of them:
http://www.pool.ntp.org/


For DNS on the older machine make sure to use AD integrated zones, then you
have only install the DNS server role and wait, any additional configuration
is not needed, the zones are replicated with AD replication.

For the NIC configuration change the new servers preferred DNS when replication
is done complete, not earlier.

When everything is replicated, configure both DNS servers to use themself
as preferred and the other DNS as secondary. NO external DNS servers on the
NIC.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Thank you very much for your kind support.
>
> i hv completed seized all roles to bdc.. and bdc is also dns & global
> catalog server
>
> i hv also installed windows 2003 server again in first server ( pdc)
>
> now how to configure active directory and dns to make as it was
> earlier ?
>
> i have to make it additional domain controller or first domain
> controller in forest -- ?
>
> please help me to solve this problem
>