Active Directory Servic e Fails on Ghosted W2K server

[maurella]

Situation: I have copied the system partition from a w2k server to a new drive, to increase the system partition size. When I booted up off of the imaged drive, the Active Directory services would not start, giving an error 0xc0000005. The original drive had a small partition 1 which was used for diagnostics, so the system drive was on partition 2. I only had one partition on the new drive, so the system drive is on partition 1 of the new drive. Is there some sort of reference to the partition number that is used to determine the Active Directory database & log directories?

Thanks,

 

[karmic]

I gotta ask, what version of norton ghost did you use??
Did it ask you any questions or give any possible errors?

~ The day I think I know it all, i'm changing careers ~

 

[maurella]

Ghost Version: 7.5.0.335 (This is the version of Symantec Corporate Edition)

This is the console output when the Server aborted the boot up:

lsass.exe System Error
Directory Services could not start becauseof the following error: The system cannot find the file specified Error Status: 0xc000000f. Please click OK to shutdown this system and reboot into Directory Services Restore Mode, check the event log for more detailed information.

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FYI, I haven't done that as I cannot remember the local administrator password; this being an Active Directory Server, the local domain is only available when in the recovery mode. I have since found a tool to wipe out the local admin password, but I haven't been back to the system since.

My hunch is that there is something that specifies the database or log location by using a partition rather than volume letter. I did find a file that was not found on the target drive, \winnt\ntds\temp.edb; I think, however, that this is created when the Active Directory Service is started, correct me if I am wrong.

Mike