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Black screen with mouse pointer after booting in normal mode in Windows SBS 2011 Standard

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- Followed instructions for restore process to dissimilar hardware. The process completed sucesfully.
- Did not change SID
- Rebooted in normal mode and got black screen with mouse pointer but no logon screen or task manager
- Can boot in Directory Services Restore Mode. When I boot in DSRM I see that the server is not setup as domain controller, that AD is down, and DNS server is down. AD or DNS can't be started and I can't run DCPROMO in DSRM.

Any ideas?

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Hello nalavanje,

most likely the issue occurred because while backing up the VSS was disabled and as consequence the Active Directory stored in backup was inconsistent. Please check this article for possible solution.

Thank you.