Active Directory issue

Question

Hi,

I demoted a dc successfully and removed everything from sites and services and when I tried to re-promote it I get an error that states:

The operation failed because:

The path chosen for the system volume is not accessible. Please either manually delete the contents of the path or choose another location for the system volume

Will some please help. Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Not much to go on but the user may not have permissions or file system corruption may be another possibility. If it were me I'd rebuild it from scratch.

I'd use dcdiag / repadmin tools to verify health correcting all errors found before starting any operations. Then stand up the new one, patch it fully, license it, join existing domain, add active directory domain services, promote it also making it a GC (recommended), transfer FSMO roles over (optional), transfer pdc emulator role (optional), use dcdiag / repadmin tools to again verify health, when all is good you can decommission / demote old one.

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Answer 2

Hello @Heba Wagih ,

I would like to advise you if you have demoted DC and if there is nothing on that server then just reinstall windows and promote it again.

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PRAKASH T

Answer 3

Just checking if there's any progress or updates?

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Answer 4

This problem with access to SYSVOL.
In my case, a new SYSVOL folder was created on which the Domain Admins group had no permissions, it was not possible to add this group, but there was a SYSVOL_old folder next to it, which had these permissions, I changed the names and the promotion was successful.

DO NOT CHANGE - System Volume Information - it has nothing to do with it
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