Very Bad Luck.. Please help AD server lost

[webfuture]

Hi all,

I have a server with Active Directory with 2 60Gig in mirror. My two drive just crashed on me 2 hours ago. I did not have a backup AD yet on my network. I know I was running after problems. So many thing to do so little time.

I also have an exchange server on my network. If I need to rebuild my AD, how can I make my exchange reconnect to the AD without loosing to much.

Right now, I am trying to recover my disk but the registry hive is corrupted.

Any insight is appreciated.

Simon

 

[daveh777]

If you don't have any backups then a full instalation will probably be the only way. You will then have to do a dcpromo and recreate the domain, you'll then have to re-create the user accounts and then re-install exchange.

Unless you can fix the hive I can see no other way.

 

[hbdude]

WebFuture,

I just had the same thing happen to me. I had a full backup but had problems getting it restored. I had to reload the dc from scratch.

 

[daveh777]

hence why it's so important to practise restores. Backup ain't very reliable but if you know the pit falls you can be successful with it.