Two mirrored drives at once? Sheesh! ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce J. Rose Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 10:51 To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Rebuild of Domain controller and Exchange 2003 Harddrive Crash Lost 2 drives in a Dell mirror array Friday night at 10:30 after a SixPack, oh boy. Getting to work was exciting enough, anyway here is one for your guys archive. Exchange Server was domain controller holding everything except for one FSMO roles; Running Ex2003. Lost both Mirror drives so here is what I did hope it helps someone 1. Fix HD and reinstall Windows 2003, tried to make it a domain controller but no domain controller could be found to complete DCPROMO Rename Server same name and then do all updates. 2. Boot server then to to Directory services mode and run Restore making sure you have Write over Existing files selected, I use Backup Exec 3. Boot server again to Directory services mode and run a Authoritative Restore of active directory, start ntdsutil, authoritative restore, then restore directory, hopefully this give you no errors, it did not for me, I could have been very lucky. 4. Reboot Server and restore Exchange Databases if they were lost, I did not lose mine because I had them on a separate array but if you did just restore them and run eseutil /d and eseutil /p on both Stores public and private. Then run ISinteg both stores until no fixes or errors. 5. Reboot server Stores should be mounted. Any questions let me know Thanks Bruce Rose