DCPromo Problems on NEW DC

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Hi all,

We recently purchased a brand new W2003 Small business server from
Dell. They created a domain from our company name, which is very long.
So we wanted to create a new Domain name to shorten it up.

I recently disjoined the DC from the old domain on a w2003 small
business server and dcpromo'd it to a new domain name, choosing new
forrest ect. When I rebooted after it successfully installed, the
computer hangs at "Applying computer settings". I waited over 30
minutes last time. The DNS was to be installed on new DC and is
pointing at itself. I can boot into safe mode and noticed in the event
logs, it is trying to referrenced the old DNS name zone.

When I dcpromo'd the original domain, I chose to delete the application
partion and the uninstall never reported back any errors.
How can I removed the old DNS zone refereence in AD? The problem is , I
can not get the system to boot into any other than safe mode WITHOUT
Networking.

Thanks for any help someone can give me.
 
Hi all,

We recently purchased a brand new W2003 Small business server from
Dell. They created a domain from our company name, which is very long.
So we wanted to create a new Domain name to shorten it up.

I recently disjoined the DC from the old domain on a w2003 small
business server and dcpromo'd it to a new domain name, choosing new
forrest ect. When I rebooted after it successfully installed, the
computer hangs at "Applying computer settings". I waited over 30
minutes last time. The DNS was to be installed on new DC and is
pointing at itself. I can boot into safe mode and noticed in the event
logs, it is trying to referrenced the old DNS name zone.

When I dcpromo'd the original domain, I chose to delete the
application partion and the uninstall never reported back any errors.
How can I removed the old DNS zone refereence in AD? The problem is ,
I can not get the system to boot into any other than safe mode WITHOUT
Networking.
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Go here and delete the reg key with that name:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DNS Server\Zones
 
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