STOP: c00002e2 Directory Services could not start
because of the following error: a device attached to the system is not
functioning.
Error status: 0xc0000001.
Please shutdown this system and reboot into Directory
Services Restore Mode, check the event log for more detailed information.
This was my only
Domain Controller and no backup so I had to solve this problem.
Troubleshooting steps:
1.
Boot
into Directory Services Restore Mode (F8)
2.
NTDSUTIL:
·
activate
instance NTDS
·
files
·
Error: Could
not initialize the Jet engine: Jet Error -501. Failed to open DIT for AD DS/LDS
instance NTDS. Error -2147418113
·
quit
3.
ESENTUTL
/g C:\Windows\NTDS\ntds.dit
·
ESENTUTL
result: successful (no DB corruption)
4.
ESENTUTL
/p C:\Windows\NTDS\ntds.dit
·
ESENTUTL
result: successful (no DB corruption)
5.
Event
log:
·
Error
1003: Active Directory Domain Services could not be initialized. The directory
service cannot recover from this error. Restore the local directory service
from backup media. Error value: -501 JET_errLogFileCorrupt, Log file is corrupt
·
Error
465: NTDS (2156) Corruption was detected during soft recovery in logfile
C:\Windows\NTDS\edb.log. The failing checksum record is located at position
END. Data not matching the log-file fill pattern first appeared in sector 6697
(0x00001A29). This logfile has been damaged and is unusable.
·
Error
454: NTDS (2256) Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error -501.
6.
Rename
edb.log to edb.log.old and restart system
·
Result:
same STOP error
Solution to this
problem: rename all *.log files in
C:\Windows\NTDS folder and restart system.
