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by chidmks

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i have create a child domain in windows 2003 but but the primary (parent) domain was formated due to some reason .now i want to make the child domain act to primary domain and want to remove the pervious ads in child and i want to restore the new ads backup of primary domain (old) if it possiable how ?

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by p.j.hutchison

Run dcpromo to remove the old child domain, then run dcpromo again and set it up as the primary domain. You may need to re-install DNS as well to setup correct dns info.

by intelligent

You can make the chid domain as primary domain but you need to remove chid domain first( to do this type dcpromo) and then create parent domain (type dcpromo again after restart. You can restore ADs of previous primary domain only if you have the back up of it, otherwise you cannot do it.

by mohdansar_uddin

first take the backup of ads then type dcpromo and remove the child domain and then type dcpromo and make that as a main domain controller ya u can get the whole data in the child domain since it was taking backup of the previous pdc

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