| <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in | | | | Failure of server disk that contains SYS volume |
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| Novell Netware is recognized for its strong file sharing | | | | disk(s) |
| features and networking abilities. That is the reason | | | | |
| why this operating system is so popular among | | | | Tips to Solve |
| network administrators. But what if your SYS volume | | | | According to the issue in place, you should perform the |
| got corrupted on your main production server's hard | | | | below sequence of steps: |
| disk? Worried? Here are a few disk data recovery | | | | First check if all the cables and power of external |
| methods that can aid in recovering lost data in such | | | | server disk(s) are healthy. If not, replace the faulty |
| situations. | | | | ones. |
| The SYS volume stores NLM™ programs and most | | | | Replace the serve disk that contains SYS volume, |
| importantly, the NetWare system files. When | | | | create partitions and SYS volume, and later restore |
| corrupted, SYS volume cannot be mounted in most of | | | | the data |
| the situations and hence all other volumes. | | | | In case of volume corruption, you need to run required |
| Consequently, the Novell eDirectory™ tree does not | | | | volume repair utilities (VREPAIR or REBUILD) |
| contain the volume, LAN drivers are not loaded, and | | | | according to your volume type. If this fails, delete the |
| autoexec.ncf file is not executed. | | | | volume and restore from backup or run a disk partition |
| Consider a similar scenario when your SYS volume | | | | recovery software to extract lost data first and then |
| fails to mount. You observe an unexpected power | | | | recreate the volume. Disk Data Recovery utilities |
| failure on your Novell NetWare server and soon after | | | | extract lost data from corrupted or deleted NetWare |
| this, when you try to boot the server, you observe that | | | | volumes. |
| none of the volumes present on the server can be | | | | |
| mounted. As a result, all the data that is stored on | | | | Stellar Phoenix Novell Data Recovery is an exclusively |
| these volumes is no longer accessible. | | | | designed utility to recover lost data from Novell |
| | | | | NetWare volumes. This Disk Partition Recovery tool is |
| As discussed, this behavior is due to SYS volume | | | | available in two different variants for NWFS and NSS |
| corruption. Apart from this, other issues that prevent | | | | file systems. A safe software that employs complex |
| the volumes from mounting are: | | | | scanning methods to restore lost information. |