Hi Guys, I am just running thru disaster recovery scenarios, and I am kinda stuck. The situation is 1 windows 2000 dc died beyond repair. so need to rebuild and restore from backup. now this is what we have done so far but no luck. rebuilt new server with same name and partition info as old server. run dcpromo and restored system state and sysvol into alternative location. used the ntdsutil to perform authoritative restore i.e restore database. once successffuly complete. restart server in normal mode. now the problem is that the server just hangs on the wondows 2000 starting up sreen. any take? Ta dave --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.