Data Loss From Traditional Novell Netware 5.x Volumes
On Novell NetWare computer, when you go to Storage-> Devices folder in iManager, a traditional Novell volume created with NetWare 5.0 or 5.1 becomes instantly deactivated.
After this, your Novell volume does not mount again and you encounter the following error message:
“The volume <volumename> could NOT be mounted. Some or all volume segments could not be found. If this is an NSS volume, the pool may need to be activated using the command nss /poolactivate=<poolname>”
This behavior of Novell operating system results into the inaccessibility of data.
Grounds of the issue
The cause of this issue is that the Novell NetWare partition format is totally different between NetWare 5.x and 6.x. The iManager could not handle NetWare 5.x partition format and would just remove the partition. NetWare 5.x and 6.x have different MBR sizes. In this case, the old partition (with 32 sector MBR) is removed by iManager of NetWare 6.x and a new MBR of 64 sectors is created and thus the overwriting of the start of deleted NetWare partition takes place.
During the usual NetWare 6.x upgradation, all the partitions would be automatically converted to the NetWare 6.x format. If due to certain reasons, the partitions were not available during upgrade process, the previous NetWare 5.x format would remain.
Resolution
You can avoid this problem by upgrading your NetWare 5.x partitions to the NetWare 6.x format partitions using this console command- “MM UPGRADE PARTITIONS.”
Although, it is helpful for existing partitions and will help you in avoiding data loss but does not help in retrieving previously lost Novell partitions that have lost due to iManager issues.
In such situations, you need to carry out Novell Partition Recovery to get all your lost partitions and data back. You can do it easily using third party Novell Recovery Software. These software are extremely powerful and do absolute Novell Partition Recovery in all situations.
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