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Samatha R
here is my story in a nutshell of how a simple task turned into a nightmare
I simply wanted to add an external PowerVault backup to our PowerEdge 2600
server running Windows 2003, the newly installed PowerVault showed up fine
during POST as well as the OS but neither Veritas nor Ntbackup was able to
complete a successful backup to this device i got different variations of
error messages that basically said that there is an hardware failure, after
hours and hours on the phone with Dell and after replacing all the hardware
we concluded that the issue is directly related to the OS...here is my
problem, at one point of rebooting the server for the hundred time i got the
BSOD during bootup and it rebooted automatically so i got stuck in a loop,
im unable to see the error message because the blue screen appears for only
about a half a second before it reboots, i tried booting up with every
available option with no luck, Safe mode, Last good known configuration...so
I decided to boot to the recovery console (i wasn't even sure why), I
inserted the Dell reinstall OS CD, i hit F8 for the license agreement and
waited for the menu to show up, Install, repair etc.. but to my surprise it
automatically started setup (coping filed needed for setup) without me
touching anything, i decided to let it go i just hopped that its not wiping
my data, the end results was a parallel installation to D:\windows, the
original C and all my data on the D wasn't touched and the PowerVault was
working perfectly fine on the new install, so my question is...
1) how do I get back my AD for about 100 users considering that I don't have
a system state backup?
2) is it possible to just copy over some files from the sysvol?
3) should I focus on repairing the original install (how??) and create a
system state backup?
3) if some windows files or registry are corrupt on the original and that
caused the whole PowerVault issue will a system state restore bring along
those effected files and keys?
Thanks
I simply wanted to add an external PowerVault backup to our PowerEdge 2600
server running Windows 2003, the newly installed PowerVault showed up fine
during POST as well as the OS but neither Veritas nor Ntbackup was able to
complete a successful backup to this device i got different variations of
error messages that basically said that there is an hardware failure, after
hours and hours on the phone with Dell and after replacing all the hardware
we concluded that the issue is directly related to the OS...here is my
problem, at one point of rebooting the server for the hundred time i got the
BSOD during bootup and it rebooted automatically so i got stuck in a loop,
im unable to see the error message because the blue screen appears for only
about a half a second before it reboots, i tried booting up with every
available option with no luck, Safe mode, Last good known configuration...so
I decided to boot to the recovery console (i wasn't even sure why), I
inserted the Dell reinstall OS CD, i hit F8 for the license agreement and
waited for the menu to show up, Install, repair etc.. but to my surprise it
automatically started setup (coping filed needed for setup) without me
touching anything, i decided to let it go i just hopped that its not wiping
my data, the end results was a parallel installation to D:\windows, the
original C and all my data on the D wasn't touched and the PowerVault was
working perfectly fine on the new install, so my question is...
1) how do I get back my AD for about 100 users considering that I don't have
a system state backup?
2) is it possible to just copy over some files from the sysvol?
3) should I focus on repairing the original install (how??) and create a
system state backup?
3) if some windows files or registry are corrupt on the original and that
caused the whole PowerVault issue will a system state restore bring along
those effected files and keys?
Thanks