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I've installed a new hard drive on the Novell 3.12 file server by cloning the old one using first time ghost utilities and after powerquest disk image software.In both cases size of sys volume is the same as the old hard drive.How can I increas size of it
so it uses all hard drive space?
Please help? Thanks.
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The problem here is that the NetWare partition from the old drive is the same size on the new drive.
NetWare allows only a single NW partition per drive, and there is no feature in NetWare to re-size partitions, so ignore the advice in the previous message about creating a partition and adding a volume; you already have a partition and volume. You need a way to resize the partition and volume.
Here are your choices:
1. Buy ServerMagic 3.0 for $400 from cdw.com, which will re-size a NetWare partition and allow you to expand or add volumes. It's not cheap, but it's reliable and very fast; a partition can be resized in minutes, which is far better than spending a full day doing option #2 below.
2. Or, do a full backup, remove the partition, re-create the new partition using the full capacity of the drive, and then restore all data.
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Novell have a free utility called Toolbox that provides a near equivalent of DOS XCOPY.
This is my preferred method of replacing drives.Make a fullsize volume on the new drive. Give it a different name, otherwise you won't be able to mount both at once. Now use the toolbox COPY command to transfer the contents. Since this runs on the server, it's fast. Not that this doesn't transfer user-rights, you must do this by hand, or use another utility, TBACKUP.
Once done, load install, dismount sys and rename the volumes.
This applies to Netware 3 without name space. If using long filenames or a version later than 4.1 then the procedure is a little more involved..
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Just as a further note to last message, if you've got the luxury of two disks, I'd be inclined to keep both. Use one for SYS and the other for non-system stuff. That way if things go horribly wrong at some point in the future, you can reinstall the system disk with less risk of losing the data volume contents. Much more secure that way.
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Thank You all for help.
That's what I've done :Originally Server had 1 sys volume broken onto few segments sitting on 2 ISA HDDs.
1).I created Novell partition on the new HDD.
2).Using Netware Ghost clone slave drive,sector by sector.
3).Again using the Netware Ghost I resized a
partition.
4).Replaced a new HDD with existing slave.
At this point I had original sys volume sitting on both HDDs,using original size and
free partitioned space on the new HDD.
5).Using install utility,disk options,volume
options I created an additional volume with a different name and loaded.
Thanks again.
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Hi guys,
I've just added a new HD to my system but
I've got one problem, I need an additional
power cable for the second HD.Do you know any web site where I might
get that 'Y' shaped cable for 2 IDE HD ?Thanks,
please e-mail me on tarek_demiati@ureach.com
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We have 5 Netware 3.12 servers that we would like to upgrade with bigger hard drives. The other reason is to replace the old drives to avoid any failures. We looked at the option of buying Norton Ghost for Netware, however, they require us to purchase at least 10 licences at over $ 575.00 each plus the cost of the media itself. This did not make sense so we abondoned the idea. We instead used Norton Ghost 2001 (for FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS) and PowerQuest DriveCopy to do a sector-by-sector copy, disk-to-disk copy.
After this process, we rebooted the server with the new drive. Everything works fine. The server, though the Install screen, shows the existing DOS and Netware partitions and a certain amount of free space. But when you try to extend the existing volumes into the new free space, it says no more space available. Since you cannot have more than 1 Netware partition per disk, I think we need to extend the Netware partitibn on the new drive and then boot server and extend the volumes.
If you choose to copy partition-by-partition, Norton lets you choose a new size for the Netware partition. If you do extend the size this way, when you boot the server it can't find the volumes. The volume descriptor on the drive is different from the physical parameters.
The server machine itself can't recognize the full 10GB of the new drive, it only sees 8.4GB while we did the cloning on a machine that sees the full size. Could this cause the problem above?
Is there an utility available for extending Netware partitions? If we add the new drive as a second drive (with no data on it), the volumes can be extended onto the drive. We haven't tried extending the volumes from the old drive to the free space of the new drive after the cloning process.
Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.We have 5 Netware 3.12 servers that we would like to upgrade with bigger hard drives. The other reason is to replace the old drives to avoid any failures. We looked at the option of buying Norton Ghost for Netware, however, they require us to purchase at least 10 licences at over $ 575.00 each plus the cost of the media itself. This did not make sense so we abondoned the idea. We instead used Norton Ghost 2001 (for FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS) and PowerQuest DriveCopy to do a sector-by-sector copy, disk-to-disk copy.
After this process, we rebooted the server with the new drive. Everything works fine. The server, though the Install screen, shows the existing DOS and Netware partitions and a certain amount of free space. But when you try to extend the existing volumes into the new free space, it says no more space available. Since you cannot have more than 1 Netware partition per disk, I think we need to extend the Netware partitibn on the new drive and then boot server and extend the volumes.
If you choose to copy partition-by-partition, Norton lets you choose a new size for the Netware partition. If you do extend the size this way, when you boot the server it can't find the volumes. The volume descriptor on the drive is different from the physical parameters.
The server machine itself can't recognize the full 10GB of the new drive, it only sees 8.4GB while we did the cloning on a machine that sees the full size. Could this cause the problem above?
Is there an utility available for extending Netware partitions? If we add the new drive as a second drive (with no data on it), the volumes can be extended onto the drive. We haven't tried extending the volumes from the old drive to the free space of the new drive after the cloning process.
Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Please send a copy of the response to the above address as well. Thanks.
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i have just added a new harddrive to my computer and i want the drive letter to appear how do i do that?
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