Need Help witn Windows 2003 server

[ChipToast]

My server went down due to a power outage and when starting up it just displays the message "The Active Directory is rebuilding indices" with no hard drive activity. I left it like this for several hours and nothing..

I looked in the MS knowledgebase and couldn't find anything at all.

Anyone has any suggestions?

Thanks,
MAC

 

[Claudek]

Could be a disk corruption here which is stopping AD from completing the rebuild. If possible, check your AD integrity -

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315136

If you can get into safe mode, a chkdsk may help resolve this issue.

Hope you have some recent backups though.




Claudius (What certifications??)

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[ewiley]

Probably corrupted the active directory database.

Reboot into Active Directory Recovery Mode after pressing (F8?) during boot. Check this MS article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=258062

Check the documentation of ESENTUTL which can check the consistancy and fix the active directory database (use with care, YMMV, RTFM, BYOB, etc.)

Hope this helps

--karl

 

[ChipToast]

Thanks god this was my Home server though

Thanks for the replys and links, I was having trouble finding the articles on MS knowledgebase.

Thanks again,
MAC