Hello, I'm trying to restore an old domain controller or AD in the lab.
I tried to do a system state only restore under both Direcotry Restore Mode and in Windows 2003. Both restore attemps completed successfully. But when I reboot the system, I can't see any of the user listing or computer listing, it is blank, like a default domain is setup. I ran ntdsutil and do an database restore, it shows that it did recover over 15,000 objects but I can't see anything via AD users and computers.
Than, I tried to do a full C and system restore. System locks up before the Windows logo display, it got be some hardware mismatch. Safe mode doesn't work either, it locks up also.
So I went back and install 10d on my server and follow the Symantec instrucions. The restore again, completed successfully. Symatnec claims that there is a file name something restore.dat on the Desktop that I need to run after a system state restore. I searched the entire drive for restore.* in AD Restore mode, no luck.
Any suggestion on how I can get a full list of users? I just need to restore an older AD/DC in my lab to do some test.
Thanks in advance.