The C: drive on our Windows 2k3 R2 server has become almost entirely filled, leaving about 700mb of free space after unused programs were uninstalled (that partition totals 12GB). The C: and D: partitions are on the same physical hard drives. The D: drive had nothing but nothing but data (file storage, nothing installed, etc) or so I thought, so I moved all the data off to an external drive, deleted that partition, and went on to expand the C: partition. That physical drive was a simple disk, so after doing a bit of research, I converted it to a dynamic disc and rebooted as instructed. This is where things go bad.
Upon restart, I get a message saying:
"Security Accounts Manager Initialization Failed because of the following error: Directory Service cannot start. Error Status: 0x00002e1. Please Click Ok to shutdown this system and reboot into Directory Services Restore Mode, check the event log for more detailed information."
Ok fine, rebooted into DSRM and checked event log to find:
event ID 455
category: Logging/recovery
(Contents of description box are as follows)
NTDS (404) NTDSA: Error -1811 (0xfffff8ed) occurred while opening logfile D:\NTDS\edb.log
Apparently when I formatted the D partition, I killed that edb.log file and did not have a copy with which to restore from. I have the other files in the D:\NTDS foler, just not specifically edb.log
My question is this: is there a way to generate a new edb.log, or is there another backup location where edb.log is stored that I can copy it from? I have read elsewhere that the ntdsutil might fix this issue via authoritative restore, but right now I don't want to screw up things more than I already have.
We do have another Domain Controller/DNS server running on Windows 2k Server, it seems to have flipped out as well; the AD services don't want to work correctly on it either...