Have you tried a repair from the cd?? -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Server OS Reinstall
I've got a server (Server 2003 R2) that conked out on me over the Christmas holidays. I'm not quite sure what went wrong--the hardware seems to be okay. But there was some sort of corruption in the RAID array and the OS gives a stop 0x00000024 every time it goes to boot. A fresh OS install won't be too painful, because this server was only a DC/DHCP/DNS server. But my question is this... When I reinstall, should I give the server the same name it had before? Or will that confuse Active Directory? And if I give it a different name, how do I remove all references to the old server name from AD? Just wondering what best practices are. Amazingly, I've never had to do this before in my years as a sysadmin. Just lucky, I guess! John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
