Greetings,
I have a domain controller (1 of 3) which must have a role removed before retiring. The drive crashed and server had to be rebuilt and manually restored with advanced team assistance. The C: restoration went well but the system state w/AD resulted in a hal.dll missing error and no boot. The server is Win2K8 Standard. The BE version is 2012 but newer than the final version of the server tape. The repaired / restored server shows a W2K8 svr installation on the drive/partition. I can browse the drives and directories from the repair command prompt. The curious items are 1) the OS drive letters flipped - OS is now D: and the recovery drive is C: and 2) in most directories almost every file has a duplicate which has additions to the extensions. I.E.the hal.dll file has below it a file named "hal.dll.USE1070C". I can run DISKPART to re-letter the volumes. I can run BCDEDIT to see details. I ran bootrec.exe to add the OS. I ran bootrec /fixboot and now have a missing bootmgr. I seek ideas before attempting to run bootrec /fixmbr as this may result in another hardware rebuild and tape restoration. A solution would be greatly appreciated as this is taking serious time away from other work. thnx