Can someone answer this for me?
I have a server that just came down due to the active directory going bad. The olny thing i can do with it at this point is boot up in Directory Service Recovery Mode however I do not know what the DSRM password for this server is.
This particular server is also our main file server and had the role of Active Directory for redundancy purposes. Getting the server up and running is not as much of a concern to me as accessing the current files on the server. The backup for the day has not kicked in and there are some critical files stored on there that i need access to ASAP.
so my questions are?
1.) Can i reset the DSRM password in any way given my limited access to a command prompt?
2.) Is there a way I can get to the files stored on this server?
I was thinking of simply re-installing windows 2003 server over itself on that partition that way i can just simply access those directories and then transfer the files over to another server.
I have done this on windows workstations before if i needed to access files and the windows installation has gone bad. I just dont know what my chances for succes would be trying this on windows 2003 server.
Thanks in advance.