Restoring Edirectory On Windows After An Emergency Repair - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 Troubleshooting Manual

If other replicas of the eDirectory database exist, complete the following steps:
If this eDirectory server holds the only replica of the partition, complete the following steps:

Restoring eDirectory on Windows after an Emergency Repair

When you are forced to do an emergency repair on a Windows server and there is no Emergency
Repair disk, or the Emergency Repair disk was created before an eDirectory installation, the
eDirectory client is removed and Registry settings are deleted. The nds4nter.exe utility both
restores the necessary Registry settings and reloads eDirectory files.
Run nds4nter.exe from the \i386\goodies directory.
After an emergency repair is performed, run the Emergency Repair utility from the CD. The utility
will first restore some of the Registry settings, then it will launch the eDirectory installation. The
installation will copy the files then you must select the reboot option. After rebooting, users will
have access to the migrated domains.
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The database files might have been corrupted through disk errors on the NT/2000 server.
Someone might have deleted one or more of the database files.
1
Start Novell iManager from an administrative workstation.
2
Remove the corrupted replica from the replica ring.
See "Deleting a Replica"
information.
3
Run the sammig.exe utility in the system directory (usually c:\winnt\system32) on the NT
server or from the Start menu (Start > Programs > Administrative Tools (Common) >
Migration Tool for NetWare).
4
Select the option to create a new replica on the eDirectory server.
1
Run the sammig.exe utility in the system directory (usually c:\winnt\system32) on the NT
Server or from the Start menu (Start > Programs > Administrative Tools (Common) >
Migration Tool for NetWare).
2
Select Uninstall NDS on Windows and revert to the previous Windows domain state.
3
Continue with the Uninstall until it has completed.
4
Restart the Migration Tool for NetWare and proceed to install eDirectory on Windows.
5
Move the User objects from the NT/2000 domain to the eDirectory tree.
in the Novell eDirectory 8.8 Administration Guide for more