What is the long term goal here? Just to get the old box up and running? Do you plan to replace it?
Personally if this is a small shop and you know you are going to buy a new box in the very near future, I might load up a workstation and bring it up as a temporary DC/GC just until the new hardware arrived. Not a great solution but it will serve in a pinch. Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 _____ From: dennis_rogov2...@yahoo.com [mailto:dennis_rogov2...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2003 wont boot up help!!! I have a spare sata drive what about installing windows 03 as parellel any advice Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _____ From: dennis_rogov2...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:58:44 +0000 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: Re: Windows 2003 wont boot up help!!! Hardware controller or disk Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _____ From: "Sam Cayze" Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:55:18 -0600 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Subject: RE: Windows 2003 wont boot up help!!! I concur, diffidently hardware. _____ From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 2003 wont boot up help!!! Sounds like a hardware issue...since it doesn't even load the CD. Can you run diagnostics from the BIOS level? On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Dennis Rogov <dennis_rogov2...@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi all One of my DC's went down today. When i got to the data center it was in windows and completely frozen... I had to hard boot the system and when it came back up it stopped loading windows. I tried all safe mode it goes through the boot up process and then dies when it tries to load acpitabl.dat file... If i try to load a windows 2003 CD it freezes once it says loading windows at the bottom. In this box i have a scisi controller with 2 one has oS the other data. If i try to load the scisi driver it tells me windows has one and then crashes when windows loading comes up at the bottom. Any ideas? Its a Dell Poweredge 2600 windows 2003 standard. Sincerely DR thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
