Rebuilding a secondary DC

Looks like one of my 3 W2K DCs has had a hard drive failure. I'm going
to have to rebuild it. The DC is only a GC and has DNS. No other
functions or FSMO.

I'm assuming I can just

1) replace the hard drive
2) rebuild the server with the same name & IP address
3) Let it replicate.

Any other steps to assure success?

TIA.

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
http://mypcassistant.blogspot.com/

Hello Hank,

If the DC is not longer existing in the network and can't be demoted correct,
you have to cleanup the AD database BEFORE from the old DC.

See here about seizing the 5 FSMO roles(if needed), cleanup the AD database
and AD sites and services:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555846/en-us

Also remove all existing entries in the DNS zones and zone properties. Wait
for replication and check with dcdiag, netdiag and repadmin /showrepl that
no errors exist.

If all above is done and error free start with the new installation, either
with old name or new name.

Best regards

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> Looks like one of my 3 W2K DCs has had a hard drive failure. I'm going
> to have to rebuild it. The DC is only a GC and has DNS. No other
> functions or FSMO.
>
> I'm assuming I can just
>
> 1) replace the hard drive
> 2) rebuild the server with the same name & IP address
> 3) Let it replicate.
> Any other steps to assure success?
>
> TIA.
>