I am trying to restore my active directory for emergency response. I have tried now for about a week with no luck. The AD is from a network with two DCs. I have a backup up of the System State Data and the NTDS directory. I now have to restore to anetwork with a new server (which is not identical) and only one DC. I build the server, promote it to a DC then restart in Directory repair safe mode. Then I run the restore wizard from NTBackup. I have tried restoring using the advanced options andnot. I have tried authoritative and non-authoritative. Once the restore is complete and I reboot the server it starts to come back up and gets to the Windows Server Family splash screen and hangs. The Starting up bar gets to about 60-70%.
I have also tried this process without promoting the server to a DC and removing any drivers which are differnet like the video/NIC drivers. I have to rebuild from scratch to try again. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Jeff