Re-Installing a PDC without Saved Domain Database Files

Normally, when you re-install an AS/U primary domain controller, you first save the domain database files during asu_rmv and then later restore them during the new installation. All machines and user accounts in the domain are preserved. However, in some cases, domain files may not be available if:

In these cases, re-installation creates new default domain files, and all knowledge of current backup domain controllers is lost (as are all other user and machine accounts). Existing backup domain controllers now must be "re-joined" to the domain in order to register themselves with the PDC and to refresh their local user account databases.

Use the following procedure to re-install an AS/U primary domain controller without saved domain files:

	NOTE: The re-installation of the primary domain controller without saved data and configuration files results in the loss of all user accounts and the sharefile. User accounts and shared resources have to be re-created on the newly-installed primary domain controller.