Certsvc will not start

After using a standard W2K certificate for about a year, I have found that my certsvc database is corrupt and the certificate service will no longer start. I receive and error message in my app and system logs that states the certificate database is corrupt. I can see my certificate, however, on my drive. How can I restore or correct the database issue

Thanks.

David
Mon Mar 01 21:54:13 CST 2004

have you attempted to restore from backup?

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"shepcon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After using a standard W2K certificate for about a year, I have found that
my certsvc database is corrupt and the certificate service will no longer
start. I receive and error message in my app and system logs that states
the certificate database is corrupt. I can see my certificate, however, on
my drive. How can I restore or correct the database issue.
>
> Thanks.

anonymous
Mon Mar 01 22:21:10 CST 2004

Unfortunately, I don't have a valid backup of the c:\winnt\system32\certsrv directory and I assume this is the location of the directory. I do get a long sub error code, but I cannot find anything on the MSKB site.

George
Tue Mar 02 19:48:40 CST 2004

Can the certserver be backed up like we can the Metabase or does it =
require 3rd party software and\or the questionable backup utility in =
Windows. The way I understand it the Active Directory would have to be =
backed up also. In which case we are basically talking a reinstall of =
the operating system.

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> > After using a standard W2K certificate for about a year, I have =
found that
> my certsvc database is corrupt and the certificate service will no =
longer
> start. I receive and error message in my app and system logs that =
states
> the certificate database is corrupt. I can see my certificate, =
however, on
> my drive. How can I restore or correct the database issue.
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> > Thanks.
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