If a rebranding error is encountered while upgrading a non-VSI OpenVMS system disk to a VSI version of OpenVMS, try one of the following solutions:

•Upgrade the disk to ODS-5 and enable hard links.

•Check and repair the SYSCOMMON/VMS$COMMON directory aliasing.  Read the following article for details:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/%2F/pub/enterprise/programming_code/c00811161Checking_the_Alias_Directory....txt

•Use the DFU utility off the OpenVMS Freeware CD to analyze and repair the disk file structure.