stevenriz
IS-IT--Management
- May 21, 2001
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Will fdisk find a new scsi drive? See my boot drive failed and I need to replace it but no other scsi drives I have, have dos partitions on them. Is it that simple to do?
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How to create boot partition on scsi drive
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Hi.
You should have good luck by installing the drive, booting from the NW CDROM, and installing the OS.
During the install you can supply 3rd party drivers for peripherals if needed
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Bill
Consultant / Network Engineer
CNE, CCNA
You should have good luck by installing the drive, booting from the NW CDROM, and installing the OS.
During the install you can supply 3rd party drivers for peripherals if needed
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Bill
Consultant / Network Engineer
CNE, CCNA
Yes, FDISK will be able to create an active partition on your SCSI drive. Your SCSI card will have a setting for which one to boot from, by defaul this is SCSI ID 0.
Now, when you say your boot drive died on you, did this drive have only your DOS partition on it? or did it also have your SYS volume on it? Did you have a drive mirror and the second SCSI drive you mirrored to just not have a boot partition?
If you only had DOS on it, then do use FDISK to create the partition and make it active. Then use FORMAT /S to make it bootable. It would be easier to just use what Psychoid suggested and use the NetWare CD to boot from. Allow it to create the partition and format it, then allow it to install the DOS files, BUT stop the install once it gets ready to create the SYS volume. If you have applied service packs to the server, you may get public veriable errors. You will need to boot the server at a bare minimum by executing SERVER.EXE -NA so the autoexec.ncf file gets skipped, and reapply the service pack that is on the server so the DOS file get updated. This should get you back in business.
HOWEVER, if this boot drive also held SYS, and it was not mirrord, I hope you have backup. If this is just a test server and your learning on it, you will be better off just to reload everything from scratch.
To restore data from backup, run a basic server install with no options installed, just get the OS installed. Create DOS partition and your NetWare partiton the same size (or bigger, never smaller), and create your SYS volume and any additional volumes that were on the dead drive. Once you get the basic OS installed (be sure server name and internal ID match), install your backup software and do a full restore, choosing to over write files. Once restore is done, reapply any service packs needed. Hopefully NDS backup is good, if not, you will need to manualy rebuilt it.
If you don't have a backup, and you don't have a mirror, and this server is a production server used by a company, find a brick wall and bang head.
Provogeek
Saving the world, one network at a time
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Now, when you say your boot drive died on you, did this drive have only your DOS partition on it? or did it also have your SYS volume on it? Did you have a drive mirror and the second SCSI drive you mirrored to just not have a boot partition?
If you only had DOS on it, then do use FDISK to create the partition and make it active. Then use FORMAT /S to make it bootable. It would be easier to just use what Psychoid suggested and use the NetWare CD to boot from. Allow it to create the partition and format it, then allow it to install the DOS files, BUT stop the install once it gets ready to create the SYS volume. If you have applied service packs to the server, you may get public veriable errors. You will need to boot the server at a bare minimum by executing SERVER.EXE -NA so the autoexec.ncf file gets skipped, and reapply the service pack that is on the server so the DOS file get updated. This should get you back in business.
HOWEVER, if this boot drive also held SYS, and it was not mirrord, I hope you have backup. If this is just a test server and your learning on it, you will be better off just to reload everything from scratch.
To restore data from backup, run a basic server install with no options installed, just get the OS installed. Create DOS partition and your NetWare partiton the same size (or bigger, never smaller), and create your SYS volume and any additional volumes that were on the dead drive. Once you get the basic OS installed (be sure server name and internal ID match), install your backup software and do a full restore, choosing to over write files. Once restore is done, reapply any service packs needed. Hopefully NDS backup is good, if not, you will need to manualy rebuilt it.
If you don't have a backup, and you don't have a mirror, and this server is a production server used by a company, find a brick wall and bang head.
Provogeek
Saving the world, one network at a time
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stevenriz
IS-IT--Management
- May 21, 2001
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Thanks a lot guys. It is a 486/66 running Netware 4.1 which runs just fine. The boot drive had DOS as well as the SYS volume and a userdata volume which had a lot of my personal sh*i which sucks because it is mostly gone now. I have backups here and there. Oh well, this thing is very old I got good use out of it. I have a bunch of 9gb Micropolis drives which I will use now until I run out of them, then I will build a decent netware 6 server with all the goodies. Anyway, I appreciate the help. I am sure between the two of you, I can get this thing going again! 
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