A volume directory in Novell Netware operating system can become unmountable due to incorrect root subdirectory code number, system file corruption, improper system shutdown, metadata structure damage, virus infection etc. Once the volume drive becomes unmountable, the data stored in the volume drive becomes inaccessible. In such situations, the user needs to restore and recover the data from the latest backup. But if the user has not created any backup of the data saved in the affected volume, then he needs to use efficient Netware Data Recovery software to recover and restore the inaccessible data.
For instance, when a user attempts to access the data saved in a Novell Netware volume, he receives the following error message:
"FILESYS- X-306: Error reading in volume directory"
After the above error message appears, the data saved in the volume becomes inaccessible. The main cause of the above error message is that the current directory entry being examined contains an incorrect root subdirectory code number. To resolve the above error and access the data, the user needs to use an inbuilt utility known as VREPAIR. However, data loss can also occur when he uses this inbuilt utility. It can happen under these two conditions:
* When the user attempts to run VREPAIR utility on a mounted volume
* When multiple volumes are repaired simultaneously using the VREPAIR utility
In such data loss scenarios, the user needs to recover the data stored in the volume by using an efficient Netware Recovery application. Such powerful recovery utilities employ advanced and influential scanning methods to recover and restore the lost data. With highly interactive and intuitive user interface, these recovery applications are easy to understand. Such Novell Recovery utilities recover data even when the VREPAIR utility fails to perform. There are two types of Netware volume recovery utilities. The first one are those that get installed on Novell Netware itself. The second type is of those utilities that get installed on some other popular platform like Windows. Many Novell recovery utilities require the user to connect the Novell Netware hard drive as an external or slave drive. Then the user should scan, preview and extract the lost data using the recovery software.
Stellar Phoenix Novell Data Recovery is the most advanced and result oriented Novell Recovery application. It is available in two different forms – Stellar Phoenix Novell (NWFS) for Netware File System and Stellar Phoenix Novell (NSS) for Novell Storage System. It supports storage media such as Multi-Disk Drive- IDE, EIDE and SCSI.
Andrew Juan is a student of Mass Communication doing research on data recovery . He is also a freelancer for http://www.stellarinfo.com .
