Recovering PDC from Hardware Failure

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Brian McGrew

Good morning!

I've got a whitebox Win2000AS that's running as a primary domain controller.
Thank God my data is on the other drive but my primary master hard drive
failed and the server won't boot. No, I don't have any backups of that
drive, this is a home installation. After I rebuid the OS on this box, I
need to get it talking to all ten XP Boxes' again, without having to rejoin
them all to the domian? This is a single server environment, the server is
running DNS, DHCP, WINS and File / Printer Sharing.

All my data is safe on the second drive but what I don't want to do it have
to rejoin all the workstations to the domain and such. How???

-brian
brian @ visionpro.com
 
No, I don't have any backups of that
drive, this is a home installation. After I rebuid the OS on this box, I
need to get it talking to all ten XP Boxes' again, without having to
rejoin them all to the domian? This is a single server environment, the
server is running DNS, DHCP, WINS and File / Printer Sharing.

All my data is safe on the second drive but what I don't want to do it
have to rejoin all the workstations to the domain and such. How???
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AFAIK, there is no way to get from where you are to where you want to be.
You are creating a new domain, your going to have to join your clients to
the new domain.
<but what I don't want to do it have to rejoin all the workstations to the
domain and such. How???
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You should consider putting up a second DC. If one fails, the second will
hold the domain/user info while you rebuild the failed DC, bring it back
into the domain, promote to DC and the AD info will replicate to it.
This can be a workstation with the server OS installed.

hth
DDS
 
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