Today, the Failover Clustering services are essential for every organization that deploys line-of-business and business-critical e-commerce applications. The Failover cluster is the group of individual computers, which work together for increasing availability of services and applications. In some circumstances, where you use Failover Clustering with Windows 2003, your data and applications may become inaccessible. This behavior leads to serious data loss situations and you need windows data recovery to fix the issue.

You may face any of the below symptoms with Microsoft Windows 2003 Failover Clustering:

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  The File Share resources become inaccessible even if the resources are displayed online by Cluster Administrator.
  
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  Either of the below error message is logged into Cluster.log file:
  
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    00000930.00000af8::{2003/01/01 23:00:00.001} File Share ShareName: Share has gone offline, Error=64!
    00000930.00000934::{2003/01/01 23:00:00.001} File Share ShareName: Share has gone offline, error=64!
    
    Click on Start, Run, cmd.exe
    Type "Net HelpMsg 64"
    "The specified network name is no longer available."
    
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    Description: Cluster File Share resource 'ShareName' has failed a status check. The error code is 32.
    
    Click on Start, Run, cmd.exe
    Type "Net HelpMsg 32"
    "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."
    
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  Local shares can not be accessed.
  

After this behavior of Windows operating system, the data become inaccessible. In order to access data in such cases, you need to perform windows data recovery by sorting it out.

Cause

When ClusSvc.exe (Cluster service) can not carry out the IsAlive test against File Share resources, this problem occurs. Generally, IsAlive test can not complete as Cluster service can not connect to Server service. Failure causes Server service not to be able to keep up with demand for network work processes that network layer of Input/Output stream queues. The problem also occurs due to corruption to hard drive volume or file system.

Resolution

To handle such situations, run Chkdsk utility to check file system and hard drive integrity and consistency. However, this tool can not handle severe corruption and you need to opt to recover windows files to get your lost data back.

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