Hi,
I am installing Exchange 2013, a fresh install on a fresh clean server 2012, but after copying the files, it says "Setup is preparing the necessary resources before......" and then it gives the error message as shown below:
"Exchange server is in an inconsistent state. Only disaster recovery mode is available. Please use Setup/m:RecoverServer to recover this Exchange server.".
In addition in the ExchangeSetup.log file, I see the following at the bottom of the file:
"[10/09/2013 16:52:55.0448] [0] Setup is determining what organization-level operations to perform.
[10/09/2013 16:52:55.0448] [0] Setup has detected a missing value. Setup is adding the value PrepareDomain.
[10/09/2013 16:52:55.0448] [0] Because the value was specified, setup is setting the argument OrganizationName to the value First Organization.
[10/09/2013 16:52:55.0448] [0] Setup will run from path 'C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup'.
[10/09/2013 16:52:55.0495] [0] InstallModeDataHandler has 9 DataHandlers
[10/09/2013 16:52:55.0495] [0] RootDataHandler has 1 DataHandlers
[10/09/2013 16:52:55.0588] [0] [ERROR] The Exchange Server is in an inconsistent state. Only disaster recovery mode is available. Please use Setup /m:RecoverServer to recover this Exchange server.
[10/09/2013 16:53:17.0182] [0] The registry key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ExchangeServer\V15\Setup, wasn't found.
[10/09/2013 16:53:17.0182] [0] End of Setup
[10/09/2013 16:53:17.0182] [0] **********************************************"
Any idea what is causing this? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.