Windows 2008 R2 taking forever to start when dcpromo is done
Had been trying to set up a Windows 2008 R2 machine at home since last Saturday. But i kept getting bug by this issue where Windows is taking FOREVER to boot. when i mean FOREVER, it meant like ~1 hour, when i finally gave up waiting and just reset the machine. I tried living with it, but figured out that something is really wrong. I should point out that i had dcpromo-ed the installation. I had had older windows DC taking like 5 mins or so to boot up because it was the only domain controller and DNS server on the network. But this was really unusual. I tried booting from safe mode and it freezes after loading classpnp.sys. Google wasn’t exactly helpful. Tons of people seems to be stuck loading this driver because of various reasons. So i reinstalled the installation and tested it step by step. windows updates had no issue, drivers had no issue, and it happens right after i do dcpromo. After search on the web this time, i found out dcpromo will attempt to disable write cac...