On one of my AD 2008 domain controllers the NTDS writer is in failed state.
Writer name: 'NTDS'
Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
Writer Instance Id: {a0b40cc8-ded5-4497-b6dd-50f56de2dbe2}
State: [11] Failed
Last error: Non-retryable error
This is Windows server 2008 STD 64 bit
I'm trying to find out if there is a way to fix this WITHOUT rebooting my DC. I tried restarting the VSS service.
The cause of the failure was this.
lsass (636) An attempt to write to the file "\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy9\Windows\NTDS\edb.log" at offset 6029824 (0x00000000005c0200) for 512 (0x00000200) bytes failed after 0 seconds with system error 19 (0x00000013): "The media is write protected. ". The write operation will fail with error -1032 (0xfffffbf8). If this error persists then the file may be damaged and may need to be restored from a previous backup.
lsass (636) Unable to write to logfile \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy9\Windows\NTDS\edb.log. Error -1032 (0xfffffbf8).
Any help is greatly appreciated!