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Lost partition due to MFT corruption

2011-06-27T02:18:00.001-07:00

The Master File Table has an entry for each file stored on an NTFS volume. It is a relational database table that stores information in the form of attributes. It can be compared to a FAT table used in FAT file system. The MFT is created when you do a FAT to NTFS conversion or a fresh formatting of any logical volume or drive. It is a critical system meta-data file, which is often subject to corruption. There may be several reasons for MFT corruption, including virus infection, file system damage, operating system errors etc. This could make the partition data inaccessible and thus, you may lose all the information stored on that partition. To overcome the problem, you need to go for recovery software through a reliable company.

For instance, you have a Windows 2000-based computer. While trying to delete some files from your system, you may come across the following error message:

“Cannot delete file name: The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable.”

Moreover, the following message is recorded in the System event log:

“Event ID: 55

Source: NTFS

Description: The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume "Drive_letter:"”

The 'chkdsk' utility is not always successful and you may receive the same error on your screen after running this command-line utility.

The above error is caused due to MFT corruption. This results in a mismatch between the file names stored in the directory index record and the associated File Record Segment (FRS). One of the records contains case-sensitive characters, which are supported by NTFS but not by 'chkdsk' utility.

You need to create a backup of the corrupt volume and exclude all the damaged files form the volume. Now, format the corrupt volume and use the backup to restore volume data.

If the above solution is unable to fix the problem, you should take help of lost partition recovery software. The software helps you recover all the lost or inaccessible partition data in its original form. Using them, you can also create a clone of your hard disk. This clone can be used to perform data recovery in any future event of system crash.

Retrieve Lost Hard Drive Partition Due To MBR Corruption

2011-06-16T23:12:00.000-07:00

Master Boot Record (MBR) is the boot sector on a hard drive with Windows-based partitions containing information on the primary partition. MBR is primarily used to boot Windows after BIOS passes execution of complex code in the MBR and uniquely identifies the disk media. MBR is prone to corruption, and if it’s corrupted, the system will not boot anymore. Corruption or damage in MBR can occur for several reasons such as malicious virus, operating system failure, unexpected system shutdown etc. Whatever be the reason behind MBR corruption, it results in the complete inaccessibility of your valuable data in the hard drive. The best way to overcome such corruption is to run fixmbr repair command. But, if the fixmbr command is unable to repair the corrupted MBR and the hard drive partition remains inaccessible, then you need professional partition recovery software to retrieve important data.

This can be explained in more detail take a scenario in real time, when the user enters the following error message:

"Invalid or damaged bootable Partition"

This error message appears when you start Windows XP system. After the error message above occurs, you can not use the information stored on the hard disk partition on your system. Furthermore, the same error message appears every time you try to boot your Windows XP system. This clearly indicates that the error message above is the result of MBR corruption.

Some tips that can solve the above error message, so that you can access data stored on your Windows XP partition,

First of all, restart your system and try to boot from the Windows XP set-up disk.
Enter the BIOS setup, if Windows fail to load automatically and set the first boot preference as CD drive.
When the setup loads, an option will come that asks you to Press “R”, so that the repairing process can be carried out.
After loading-up of the Recovery Console, choose the option, that refers to Windows installation and then enter the Administrator password.
Enter fixmbr at the prompt. This will change the corrupt Master boot record with a new one. Now you will be able to boot your computer easily.
You can also execute the ‘fixboot’ command for repairing the boot sector.

Make sure when using these commands only single operating system is installed on the hard drive. "Fixmbr" and "fixboot" does not work properly if you have more than one operating system is installed on your system.

If these two commands do not resolve the above error message, then you can use an updated backup to restore your data back. However, if backup is also not available, then there is only one option left, that is the re-installation of the Windows XP operating system.

But re-installation will make all the saved data inaccessible. In such situations, you have an option of third party partition recovery software. These tools scan formatted hard drive partition by high-end scanning procedures and recover all lost files and folders.

How to access lost hard drive partitions in Windows XP

2011-05-25T23:08:00.000-07:00

Are you getting error messages when you start the Windows XP operating? Such error messages can occur due to number of possible reasons. When a partition starts to show problems, data in the hard disk partition is completely inaccessible. To overcome such errors, you must take effective measures such as re-installation of the operating system. Reinstall the operating system delete the data on the drive and in such situations, data can be restored from a valid backup. However, if backup is not available, then you can go for third party Windows partition recovery software to recover all valuable data from the hard drive partition.

To illustrate the above situation, consider a scenario in real time, where you try to start Windows XP, but got the following error messages:

“Windows could not start due to a disk hardware configuration problem.

Cannot read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk drive.

Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.”

“Winnt_root\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt:

Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

Same error message appears every time you boot the system and the data stored in the partitions become completely inaccessible.

Cause:

The causes, which are responsible for the appearance of the above error message, may be as follows:

1. Invalid value in the Boot Loader section of the 'Boot.ini' file.

2. Windows XP has not been installed in the correct location of 'Boot.ini' file.

3. Damaged 'Ntoskrnl.exe' file.

4. Incorrect setting of the partition path in the 'Boot.ini' file.

5. Any instance of hardware failure.

Solution:

Overcome the errors and restore the partition information you need to follow the instructions below:

1. Change the Boot.ini file to restore the default entry and ensure that other parts of the operating system entries in the Boot.ini file to point to the correct directory.

2. From Recovery console, make use of Bootcfg utility to correct the Boot.ini file. Below steps will guide you through:

· Open the computer system with the help of a Windows XP CD-ROM.

· Hit the key 'R', when the message pops up to repair Windows from Recovery Console.

· Choose the required Windows installation and enter the administrator password when asked.

· Enter 'bootcfg /rebuild', and click the ENTER button.

· After the Windows installation gets selected, it prompts you as: Add installation to boot list? (Yes/No/All). Type Yes.

· Type the appropriate Load identifier and when asked for 'OS Load options', just leave the field blank and hit ENTER.

If the above problem doesn’t resolve, then you have to reinstall the operating system. While re installation, you may lost your valuable data and in such circumstances, you have to opt partition recovery software to get back your important files and folders

Changing your FAT based partition to NTFS using Convert.exe may cause loss of partition

2011-02-24T22:47:00.000-08:00

File Allocation system (FAT) and New Technology File System (NTFS) are the two basic file systems supported by Windows XP. Each of these has its own advantages and limitations. In general, NTFS file system came into existence when there was a need for working in a networking environment. A networking environment, where multiple users share their data over a network, requires increased file security and capability to manage large-sized partitions. So, NTFS file system is usually preferred over FAT file system. Sometimes while converting FAT file system based partitions to NTFS, you may receive several error messages on your screen which may require you to go for partition recovery through a reliable third party utility.

For instance, when you try to convert your FAT volume to NTFS using Convert.exe, you may encounter the following error message:

“Convert cannot gain exclusive access to the driveletter:, so it cannot convert it now. Would you like to schedule it to be converted the next time the system restarts (Y/N)? ”

Cause:

The following reasons may have caused the above error:

· You are running the 'Convert' command from a directory that resides on the drive that you are trying to convert.

· Some program may have a file open on the drive that you wish to convert.

· You try to convert your boot partition.

It is probable that a possible data loss may occur while converting your FAT based partition to NTFS. You should create a backup of your hard drive data. You can recover partition data through this backup. To resolve the above error, follow the resolution steps mentioned below.

Resolution:

In all the three scenarios mentioned in 'Causes' section, you should click 'Yes'. Then the conversion will take place the very next time your computer restarts.

After converting the partition to NTFS, if you try to convert it back to FAT, you will have to reformat the partition as FAT. This would make you lose all the precious information stored on that partition. To overcome any such situation, you need to take help of partition recovery software. These software can recover back all the lost documents, files, emails, photos, audio, video from your deleted or formatted partition.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an advanced partition recovery tool that recovers lost, deleted or formatted data from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. It facilitates searching for lost or deleted files and folders from your system. It comes with a Boot CD which enables you to perform Windows partition recovery even when your system becomes unbootable.

Problems faced while converting a 'Dynamic Unreadable' disk back to a Basic Disk and the possible resolution

2011-02-07T02:29:00.000-08:00

Master Boot Record (or MBR) is a critical component of your computer system. It contains the hard disk's primary partition table and some machine code instructions that are responsible for bootstrapping the operating system of your computer. If the MBR of your primary hard disk containing the operating system is damaged, it may cause serious problems to your computer. In the Disk Management swap-in, you may see your disk as 'Dynamic Unreadable'. When you try converting it back to a basic disk, you may probably lose all your information stored on the disk. To recover back your lost valuable data in such situations, you need to go for partition recovery through a reliable third party utility.

While converting your 'Dynamic Unreadable' disk using the 'Revert to Basic Disk' option after right clicking the disk, you may receive the following message on your computer screen:

“Data on the this disk will be lost if you convert the disk to Basic, do you wish to continue ?”

Cause:

The MBR partition table may be containing an invalid partition type other than the 'OEM', 'Extended', 'Type 0x42' supported partition types for dynamic volumes.

As a consequence, it may render your partition data inaccessible. You should regularly back up your hard drive so that you can use this backup to recover partition data in case of a corruption and data loss.

Resolution:

You should first run 'Diskmap.exe' utility to check whether incorrect partition's System IDs are causing the problem. If this is the case, try to change the System-ID values to type '0x42' using 'Dskprobe.exe' utility.

After following the above procedure, your system may become unbootable and you may receive the following STOP error message:

"STOP 0x0000006F SESSION3_INITIALIZATION_FAILED"

To overcome this problem, you should take help of a reliable partition recovery software. These software use sophisticated algorithms for scanning your corrupt or inaccessible hard drive partitions and are effective in recovering your lost data in almost all cases of corruption.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a helpful utility that supports partition recovery from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file system based partitions. It enables you to filter or mask the recovered files based on their file types. It can perform Windows recovery of all your lost, deleted, or inaccessible photos, images, audio/video files, MS Office documents etc. from corrupt partitions.

Invalid or incorrect entries in partition table may lead to corrupt partitions and subsequent data loss

2011-01-24T20:18:00.000-08:00

When your hard disk is divided into partitions, all the information about these partitions is stored in the partition table which resides in the first sector of the disk. A partition table can have maximum four entries, each reserving sixteen bytes making the total size of the table to be sixty-four bytes. The partition table contain fields, such as byte offset, field length, sample value etc. It contains a unique entry for each primary or extended partition that exists on your hard disk. It might happen that your partition table contains invalid entries or all the entries point to the same location. In such situation, you may encounter several miscellaneous partition table errors making your partition data inaccessible. It can also result in overlapping of partitions. To overcome this situation, you need to go for partition recovery through a third party utility.

For instance, When you install Windows Vista on a particular disk partition, you may receive the following error message on your screen:

“Error: uncaught exception: (failed UI_ASSERT).”

Cause:

This error occurs when all the entries in the partition table are pointing to the same byte offset location.

This may render all the partitions present on your hard disk corrupt and prevent you from accessing the partition data. In such circumstances, you need to recover partition data through a backup. If you don't have an updated backup, you should follow below mentioned resolution steps.

Resolution:

To resolve this issue, you should delete all the partitions present on your hard disk and then try to install Windows Vista on your system.

This may remove all the valuable information stored in your system. In case of formatting or accidental deletion of the partition data, you can take the help of partition recovery software. These software enable lost or formatted file and folder recovery from the drive. They use powerful scanning algorithms to quicken the recovery process and enable us to preview all the recoverable files after scanning.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an advanced utility that recovers lost, deleted or formatted data from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. It has a feature to create an image of your hard drive or any logical volume. It can perform Windows partition recovery using that image file.

How to Resolve Problems in Accessing data due to corrupt partition

2011-01-20T00:49:00.000-08:00

Many PC users often come across an error message when trying to access their files in a particular partition of their PC. Some error messages in particular signify that it is an error occured during partitioning or repartitioning of the hard drive that has caused the problem. Partition Recovery from a problematic hard disk can be achieved by following some simple instructions at times. Atleast you can check on your system for the cause of the error or its location. If you are not able to do it on your own, partition recovery software is always available to retrieve your data from corrupted sectors of your hard disk.

At times, when trying to access your files on the hard disk, you come across the following:

“error: 0x80070571: The disc structure is corrupted and unreadable.”

It is a case of error in partition leading to its corruption.

You should use the disk checker utility that ships free with the Windows operating system. It would give you a good indication of the problematic hard disk drive. There is another utility which may resolve your problem. It is called Chkdsk or the Check disk utility. You can run it for the hard disk which is showing problems. If you do not find any problem in accessing your file now, its utility is understandable. It is not known to fix all hard drive or partition corruption issues so easily though. At times it takes too much time to fix your hard disk and a few hours later, the same problem crops up again, i.e., the file not being accessible. You might have to use Partition Recovery Software for getting rid of your irritating problem.

A Windows partition recovery software is the best way out when you are desperately in need of getting your lost data back. With the help of this software, you get a preview of your deleted files and then have the option to choose the particular files that need to be recovered. They support several file types for the purpose of recovery. Some software manufacturers of data recovery products provide them at economical rates.

Stellar Windows Recovery Software is an economically priced and very effective tool for retrieving your data from any situation of data loss or inaccessibility. It has an easy to use interface which is convenient for all types of PC users. You also get some add-on features like disk cloning or disk imaging with this software.

Is One of Your Hard Disk Partition Inaccessible?

2011-01-17T23:29:00.000-08:00

It often happens that your recently created partition becomes inaccessible and shows some type of error when you try to access the data stored there. There can be many reasons for such an error but they can be fixed by following some simple steps. For partition recovery, the first thing to do is to acquaint yourself with the cause of the error. The symptoms give enough indication for anyone to know the cause as well as the resolution of the problem. You also have the option of using a partition recovery software but if you can fix it on your own, nothing like it.

Partitions becoming inaccessible on NTFS based computers are very common. This is because it supports a relatively complicated file system than FAT. The stop error messages that one gets are often detected to be caused by issues in partitioning or repartitioning of hard disk. There can be logical or physical reasons for such a corruption. Some of the logical causes of partition corruption are power surges, virus infection, using partitioning software in Windows Vista or Windows 7, corruption of the Master Boot Record(MBR), accidental formatting or deletion of the particular hard disk partition and similar other incidents.

Before resorting to partition recovery software, you should try fixing the problem by taking the following steps:-

Run the disk manager utility by using the Run command by typing diskmgmt.msc followd by Enter. The partition which shows a blank has problems.
Run Chkdsk utility to scan and optimize your hard disk.
Scan your system for virus. The anti-virus should have the feature of boot sector scan so that all viruses in there are removed.
For Windows Partition Recovery, you can also format your PC altogether if you have a full backup of the important stored in it.

The abovementioned steps can fix the problem of your Windows partition. In case you are still left with the same problem, the most foolproof solution is using the software for partition recovery. There are some data recovery software manufacturers who turn out very good products that easily get your data back from corrpted partitions.

Dynamic disk partition error with possible resolution steps

2010-12-22T03:23:00.000-08:00

You might have come across a term 'Dynamic disk', that was only introduced with Windows 2000 OS. A dynamic disk is nothing but a basic disk with some additional features, such as it contains volumes that can span multiple disks. It has a hidden database that records information about the dynamic volumes on the disk. But you may face some problem when you try to install Windows XP on a dynamic volume. This may render your partition corrupt and you may face a severe data loss situation. In such cases, you need an updated backup to get your data back or you can use a Windows partition recovery software utility.

Scenario:

For instance, when you try installing Windows XP on a volume that you have configured for only dynamic data storage, then the following error message may prompt on your computer screen:

“Windows XP cannot recognize the partition you selected.

Setup cannot install Windows XP on this partition. However, you can go back to the previous screen, delete the partition. and then select the resulting unpartitioned space.

Setup will then create a new partition on which you can install Windows XP.”

Causes:

This might have happened due to:

The volume on the dynamic disk is not a system or boot partition.
The volume is not previously 'retained' by means of the Diskpart utility.

This would lead to all your data stored on that partition being lost. In this situation, you need to recover Windows partition by following some resolution algorithm.

Resolution:

You can resolve the issue by following any one of the solutions mentioned below:

Try the Diskpart command 'Retain' so as to generate MBR partition information. It prepares a dynamic simple volume to be used as a system or boot volume.
Try installing Windows XP on a partition in a basic disk or on a retained dynamic volume.
Try to delete that dynamic partition and to recreate a basic partition.

But as soon as you delete a dynamic partition, it will make the other partitions on the disk unusable. This obviously indicates that all your data stored thereon also becomes inaccessible. In this situation, you can still recover your lost data by using a more sophisticated partition recovery software. These software are user-friendly with a search feature that allows the users to search for any specific lost or deleted file, folder in a drive.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one such product that has solved this data recovery problem to a great extent. It has a resume recovery feature that helps to restart the recovery process at any later stage. It recovers Windows partition by employing a save scan algorithm that enables you to save the scanned data.

How to recover Windows partition when an incorrect partition is marked as active in Windows 2000 system

2010-12-20T01:37:00.000-08:00

In the Windows systems, the system partition with which the computer system is started is marked as active partition in the boot.ini file. This information is of immense help as this detail is required when the system boots. This practice, sometimes, is not followed if some corruption is found on the hard disk or the partition information is damaged. Because of this, the system is unable to start making all the stored data vulnerable. In such cases, you should perform suitable steps to recover Windows partition by marking the correct partition as active partition. If you are unable to do this, then you should use a third-party Windows partition recovery software to resolve this issue.

Assume a practical situation in which you are unable to start your Windows 2000-based system. In this case, the following error message is displayed:

“Missing Operating System”

Cause:

The root cause of this problem is that the an incorrect partition is marked as active.

Resolution:

To resolve this problem, you should change your computer's active partition. Before doing this, you should create a Boot Disk that contains Fdisk.exe tool. These two stages are explained in the following points:

Creating a Boot Disk: To create a Boot Disk, you should perform the following steps:
- On a computer running Windows 98, insert a 3.5 inch floppy disk in the floppy drive.
- Click Start | Run.
- In the 'Run' dialog box, type 'command' and click OK. The 'Command Prompt' window will be displayed.
- Type the following command in the command prompt and press Enter:

format a: /s

Press Enter three times.
Type the following command to copy the Fdisk.exe file to the 3.5-inch disk:

copy c:\windows\command\fdisk.exe a:

Press Enter.
Close the command prompt window.

Changing the active partition: To use the Fdisk.exe tool to change the active partition, you should perform the following steps:
- Insert the floppy disk in the inaccessible Windows 2000 system.
- Start the computer with the command prompt.
- At the A;\> prompt, type the following command and press Enter:

fdisk.exe

Press Enter to enable large disk support.
In the 'Enter choice' selection, type '2' and press Enter.
Provide the number of the partition that you want to mark as active and press Enter.
Press Esc.
Remove the floppy disk and restart the system.

This resolution method should be able to recover partition in most of similar cases. However, if it is not so then you should use a third-party partition recovery software to recover all the inaccessible data. Highly interactive user interface, which enables even a novice user to recover data, and efficient scanning mechanisms are some of the strong features of these data recovery tools.

The most efficient Windows recovery software that recovers Windows partitions including NTFS, FAT, and exFAT file systems is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. With the option to recover more than 185 different file types from various storage devices such as hard drives, iPods, memory cards, pen drives, etc, this Windows partition recovery software is capable of recovering deleted emails from Outlook Express and MS Outlook. In addition, this partition recovery software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

Recover partitions after encountering Invalid Partition Table Error

2010-12-17T01:36:00.000-08:00

Partition recovery is an innovative technology to help you recover your valuable data from the lost, deleted, formatted or corrupt system partitions. We divide our hard disk into multiple number of logical units, called partitions and store different types of data in them. Though disk partitioning helps in segregating data and even prevents data against misuse and other anomalies, sometimes, corruption or deletion of partitions can cause loss or inaccessibility of valuable data. In such cases of data loss, specialized partition recovery software can be immensely helpful in recovering and restoring your seemingly lost data.

After a sudden system shut down, when you boot your Windows system again, you receive an error message, following which though the system recognized the hard drive, indicated the drive as empty. The error message, which you received, can be read as below:

'Invalid Partition Table'

Cause: The cause behind the above error message can be pretty straight, that is the corruption of the partition table. Partition table stores all the information about various partitions in the hard disk drive and at the time of booting, the operating system learns about these partitions from the table. Hence, if the system verifies the information in the partition table as invalid or fails to read the partition table, then, the system fails to read the partitions.

Following steps may guide you through the resolution process of the above issue:

From the BIOS, change the primary boot device as CD.
Try booting the system using either Windows XP recovery console or Microsoft Windows 98 bootable disk.
After that, in the command prompt, type 'fdisk' and enter 'Y', when it asks as 'Do you want to enlarge large disk support(Y/N)'.
Now, check for the active partition in the disk and select the partition, containing the operating system.
If you found that no partition has been set as active, then, enter the number of the particular partition containing the OS and make that partition active.
Restart the system to apply the changes.

If after performing the above steps, still you are unable to resolve the issue, then, you need to format the drive and make fresh partitions. However, by doing so, all your data from the drive gets erased and you have to restore them back from any valid backup. If you do not have a valid backup available, then, you need to run any Windows partition recovery utility to recover partitions back.

Recover Corrupted Partition for Windows Vista

2010-11-12T02:43:00.000-08:00

In Windows Vista and later versions, the BCD (Boot Configuration Data) store contains boot entries needed to start the operating system. When a system is booted, the bootmgr reads the boot entries in the BCD store and a boot menu is displayed to the user. It is much safer than the previous boot.ini file, you can boot Windows XP and earlier versions. However, both the BCD get corrupt that makes the system unbootable.This can happen for various reasons such as active partition corrupt, virus infections, power failures, etc. In this case, you should take appropriate measures to solve the problem. If the problem is not resolved, you must use third-party software Windows partition recovery to recover the partition.

Consider the scenario in which Windows Vista can not start. You receive an error message that is:

"File: \Boot\BCD

Status: 0xc0000034

Info: Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information

Reason:

The causes of this situation are:

Windows Boot Manager (bootmgr) is not present in the Boot Configuration Data (BCD).
Bootfile \ BCD is damaged or missing from the active file system.

Solution:

You should do one of the following methods:

Fix the BCD: You should fix the BCD store by using the repair option to boot into Windows Recovery Environment.
Rebuild the BCD store by Bootrec.exe: You must rebuild the BCD store by Bootrec.exe recovery tool for Windows Environment.
Rebuild the BCD store manually: You should rebuild the BCD store by Bcdedit.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment.

After performing any of the above method, you must restart the computer to apply changes in compensation. But if you still face a similar situation means that the file system is inaccessible. In this case you must use a third party partition software recovery to recover the Windows partition.

Partition Recovery- File system Corruption on NTFS Partition

2010-10-22T03:04:00.000-07:00

The NTFS (New Technology File System) supports different file formats, and have a volume level that can cause hard drive space, is reported missing or incorrect. You may have encountered this behavior with NTFS file system, if the number suddenly becomes very crowded and you can not access files and folders from it. This problem makes all the partitions on your hard drive and you can not run into a critical section of the situations of injury. In such circumstances, you must select the partition recovery to get a Windows partition.

This behavior can occur when you access NTFS volume unauthorized or malicious in that it is secretly any large amount of small files or large file copy, and then removes or restricts the NTFS permissions on files. The problem can also occur after a power failure or malfunction, causing an alteration in volume.

The allocation of hard drive space on the partition of NTFS file system can be misleading if one of the following conditions:

The cluster size of NTFS partition is so large for the average size of files that are saved.
Attributes or NTFS permissions prevent the files to use or display while using the Windows command prompt or Windows Explorer
Folder path is 255 characters.
Files or folders that are reserved or invalid file names.
NTFS meta files (for example, MFT or Master File Table) have grown and could not be unallocated.

Corruption in the hard drive structure of metadata or file system cause serious problems with loss of partition, because all these resources are used by the Windows operating system to access hard drive partition and data. In all these cases, the Windows Partition Recovery is required to recover lost partitions from the hard drive.

Manage Corruption Index of Files on Microsoft Windows 7

2010-10-21T03:54:00.000-07:00

File indexing is a useful feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The extract critical information from files on your hard drive and creates "index of search keywords, which is used for finding files more efficient. Use the Indexing Service files, you can easily find a sentence, good or words in a document, even without knowing the name of the file you want. In some cases, indexing the files may be damaged and may exercise all the files that do not have access to the Windows hard drive partition. In this case, you have to choose Windows Partition Recovery to recover your important files to affect the Windows partition.

In a concrete situation that is running Microsoft Windows 7, a RAID 0 for MS Windows XP, the second partition as a dual-boot. installation process is going well and all the partitions appear to be functioning properly. When you try to use the configuration files such as My Computer or Windows Explorer, the indexing of files may be corrupted. The operating system detects damage, and if the cycles of the disk repair utility to reboot. Disk Repair Tool to find corruption in the files of several indexing and the process goes on and on. In such cases, you find the cause of this problem and make the partition recovery to recover files from Windows partitions on the hard drive.

Solution:

There are four possible solutions you can try to solve these problems. This includes:

The problem may be due to bad sectors on your hard drive in Windows. Run hard drive diagnostic utility, which hardware vendor can provide. Make a test system of health. RAID 0 is the overlap, so if the partition does not work, you can create a full backup of the data.

Make sure that the hardware of the system function properly. The problem of corruption can occur in RAID that Windows 7 has been installed.
Verifying the integrity and consistency of the hard drive using Chkdsk tool. If CHKDSK finds errors and cannot solve, the problem may be very serious. After verifying that the network and the hardware is functional system boot.

Run absolute scan your hard drive for viruses and other malicious infections using an updated software and anti-virus.

When all else fails, format the hard disk and perform a clean reinstallation of Windows 7. Although this method resolves all the problems of the disc, but also delete all disk partitions and the need partition recovery software to fix the problem.

Partition Recovery -Error 'Inaccessible Boot Device'

2010-10-20T03:03:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Windows Operating System, STOP errors are quite common. May occur either during startup or work in the system. When the STOP error occur during startup, the system will not boot, so you cannot go and access the hard drive partitions and data stored on them. This behavior of Microsoft Windows enables all Windows partitions inaccessible and leading to situations of partition loss. At this point, you must select the partition recovery software to recover your valuable data back.

In a practical situation when you start your Windows computer, you may encounter the following error message and the boot process is stopped:

"STOP 0x0000007B Inaccessible Boot Device."

Inaccessible Boot Device error could be caused by one of the reasons listed below and usually associated with an error in the MS Windows operating system or upgrade equipment. The main reasons are:

The boot sector virus.
Damaged or missing entries in the Windows registry.
Upgrade all your PC hardware resources services

The most commonly method proposed to address such issues and access your Windows hard drive is to format the hard drive and then reinstall the operating system. Formatting the hard drive is the most excellent control of most hard disk errors .

Although the above method works, but there is a problem with the recommendation. You lose all your precious hard drive partitions and stored data. Always make a backup of reliable and critical data before you go to reformat the hard drive. In the case elsewhere, the Windows partition on the hard drive would be deleted and you have to make Windows Partition Recovery to recover lost partitions and stored data .

Recover Deleted Partitions From Windows XP

2010-10-18T02:34:00.001-07:00

A hard drive partition is created on a hard drive to create and manage your hard disk. A big advantage of creating partitions is the separation of operating system files and program files from the user files. For this reason, the image backup of the OS and other software can be easily managed. In addition, you still have a separate space for the OS virtual memory swap / paging. But even the hard drive partitions are likely to be damaged. Partitions can be lost, damaged or missed, for various reasons such as power outages, virus infections, corrupted operating system, etc. Because of this, the partition becomes inaccessible . To resolve these situations, you must use appropriate measures. But if you fail, you must use a third party partition software to get the recovery partition damaged.

Consider a scenario where you turn on your computer with Windows XP. Instead of rebooting, it shows a blank screen. The error message may appear, which could be one of the following messages:

Operating System Missing

Operating System Error Loading

Invalid partition table

Once you get this message, the computer will not start and all partitions that are corrupted and therefore inaccessible.

Reason:

The cause of this error is that the partition table may have been damaged, which resulted in that it is inaccessible.

Solution:

To resolve this problem, replace the corrupt partition to the new. This could be taken to design the system and install a new operating system Windows. Although this method returns a partition, but valuable information is lost. So a safe partition recovery may want to consider a third-party partition recovery software to recover a Windows partition. These read-only tools to restore the partition without damaging the existing content.

Recovery Partition Under Fault System Partition

2010-10-12T03:02:00.000-07:00

Windows hard drive, which includes a dynamic hard drive partitions are known as dynamic disks. Dynamic disks support multi-partition volumes and store data on that partition of the hard drive itself. LDM (Logical Disk Manager) is a subsystem of Windows, which proposed to manage disk partitions. LDB use information from the database with the LDM partitioning. usually consists of a dynamic disk MBR (Master Boot Record), followed by a bye LDM and the LDM database partition. But in some situations, to create dynamic disks can cause problems and loss of the partition. At this stage, you must go Partition Recovery solutions to recover the missing, lost or inaccessible hard disk partitions.

Dynamic disk support various functions such as create or delete tracks, mirrored, single, has made, or RAID-5 volumes, eliminating the mirror and break the mirrored volume into two sections. But in some situations, users may notice that when viewing the disk management tool, two different volumes were enlisted as the system partition, while the original dynamic system disk is not present or visible than offline. When you try to delete the system volume error, the error message below appears:

“You can not delete the system volume on this disk”

In this case, you can not even format the partition. Although the design for the partition, you receive an error message below:

“This volume is no longer the current system volume. All data in this volume will be lost. Are you sure you want to format this volume”

In this case, the stored data becomes inaccessible and you must perform partition recovery to recover your data.

This problem may occur because of one of the following reasons:

You have manually broken mirror system partition and LDM database private region incorrectly.

The system partition was reflected to another dynamic disk.

If this dynamic disk has been imported in the current system and the system has highlighted the LDM partitions.

In these cases, to recover the missing hard drive partition, you should go for Partition Recovery Software. They use advanced software exploration of mechanisms to methodically analyze your entire hard disk partitions and recover all losses.

NTFS Partition- Missing $UsnJrnl or $LogFile file

2010-10-07T00:00:00.000-07:00

You may have noticed on several occasions that your Windows system becomes too slow and takes too long to start. This occurs because the NTFS file system of Windows is damaged due to various reasons such as virus infection, human error, power surges, sudden system shutdown, etc. In fact, for these reasons, some files files start or system may have damaged or deleted. For this reason, Windows can not start properly and therefore NTFS partitions become inaccessible. In these cases, take corrective measures to recover the NTFS partition. However, if you can not do, you must use third party software NTFS partition recovery software to recover NTFS data recovery efficient and secure.

Imagine a scenario where you can not boot your Windows NTFS partition. Error message is displayed, that is:

"stop 0x0000007B (0x00000000, 0xC0000032, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
Inaccessible_boot_device"
Also, when you try to install Windows 2000 NTFS partition, the following error message:

Windows 2000 detects the selected partition, but partition is not formatted or damaged. To install Windows 2000 on this partition, the configuration must be reformatted.

And finally, to open the Recovery Console and use the dir command to view the contents of a hard disk volume, the following error message:

"Directory of F:\
An error occurred during directory enumeration."
When you run chkdsk on an NTFS partition, the process ends successfully without detecting any error or corrections. If you run chkdskvolume_drive_letter:/p recovery console command for no error is detected. Having said that you still can not start or turn up the volume.

Cause

The root cause of this problem is the NTFS partition is an invalid folder or file is damaged in UsnJrnl or $ file $ logfile. These files are internal files used by NTFS and Chkdsk does not check the integrity of these files.

Resolution

To resolve this situation and to access the system again, you can do one of the following methods:

Use Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Recovery Console to repair UsnJrnl $ file.

Use the Fsutil.exe tool from a Windows XP CD-ROM to remove the Change/USN journal. Move the drive to another computer running Windows 2000 to make repairs.

By doing any of the above methods, you can solve the problem. However, if you still can not reboot, you must use a third party tool to recover files for NTFS file recovery. These read-only tool to recover lost data using sophisticated algorithms and rapid analysis.

Partition Recovery Tool To Recover NTFS File System

2010-10-05T22:17:00.000-07:00

The file system is a model in which data is stored in a computer system. The computer's file system with the operating system to store, organize, manipulate and retrieve data stored. If the Windows operating system, NTFS or 'New Technology File System' was designed in the file system FAT and HPFS. NTFS was developed with an advanced data structure that has improved performance, reliability, use of disk space and added several other things, such as access control lists and file system journaling. However, data loss may occur if the NTFS volumes based system files, and only through the partition recovery software is may be able to recover your lost data.

The advantages discussed above, most users will use the NTFS file system. It is the default file system for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. After you upgrade your operating system, a new operating system will prompt you to change the NTFS file system, if it is not.

Since all these things, the NTFS file system is widely used for new users and older, who have recently upgraded the operating system. However, like any other file system, it can be damaged or lost for the following reasons:

Malfunctioning of the system

Malware intrusion

Virus Attack

All hardware and software failures, etc.

All these reasons lead to corruption of system files and affected file system lost time, inaccessible. As we tend to store many memorable images, audio, video, important business documents on the partitions specified, loss or lack of access to them can cause big waves in our people and professional life.

Problems with NTFS-based file system can be solved by formatting the partition and do a fresh install. However, the data contained within the partition is larger and format, all data will be erased to obtain. Well, you can restore the backup data, sometimes much worse situations that no recent backup, you can have problems with your backup server, or even unable to restore from backup due to any reason insoluble. In all cases, data can be recovered by the NTFS partition recovery software.

Fix NTFS File System Partition Corruption in Windows

2010-09-24T02:52:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Windows operating system, you can divide your hard drive in different partitions on the efficient management of valuable information. Every computer has at least a Windows system or boot partition, which contains the operating system to start the computer. Other sections contain information. If corruption in one of these sections, you may lose valuable information. This is causing heavy losses of the partition, and calls for the partition recovery, if it has not been updated in the backup operation.

Any damaged or boot partition data using the NTFS file system can cause “stop 0×24” error message while accessing it. When you encounter this error message when you restart your computer or try to run the Windows Recovery Console, you will not be able to determine the cause of the problem in general using the diagnostic stage. Instead, you must visit the following method to treat NTFS corruption.

Turn off or unplug the data disks that have the NTFS file system partitions.
When you identify the disk problem, move the other hard drive, Microsoft Windows-based computer that uses the FAT or FAT32 file system.
Use CHKDSK / f used to detect and resolve system-related files.

Use the Recovery Console on the drive system unique:

If the system has only one partition NTFS file system and not the other disks or Windows are available, you can boot from the installation disk to run the CHKDSK utility with disabilities Ntfs.sys driver. Use these steps to repair the NTFS file system and recover the partition using the Recovery Console:

Start the Windows 98 startup disk, insert the Windows installation disc.

Change CD-ROM: \ Support \ Bootdisk, and run Makebt32.exe Makeboot.exe or to create installation disks for Windows.

Edit the Txtsetup.sif file using Notepad.

Boot the affected system using the installation disk. Press F10 at the Welcome screen to enter the Recovery Console.

Run chkdsk / p to repair damaged partition.

Exit Recovery Console and restart your system.

If the above method does not work, use a partition recovery software to recover lost or damaged hard drive partitions. The applications use advanced scanning mechanisms to analyze thoroughly the affected hard drive and extract all the lost partitions on it.

Partition Recovery-Careless Use Of DiskPart Tracking Data Loss

2010-09-23T02:33:00.000-07:00

DiskPart is a command line utility for Microsoft Windows that allows you to manage disks, partitions or volumes by using scripts or direct commands. Features of DiskPart to create partitions on the disk contains an active partition, and format partitions. Since the DiskPart allows precise control of partitions and volumes, many times, leads to a careless use of loss of data required by any partition recovery software.

Here are some cases where careless use of Diskpart causes loss of data or access to:

Diskpart convert basic disk to dynamic disk. Before using Diskpart, you must make sure that the disk is empty or contain a primary partition or logical volume to prevent loss of data. In addition to basic disc includes a fault-tolerant disk driver (FtDisk), is transformed into diskpart Disk Manager before you upgrade, or not, these situations result in data loss.

If the hard disk has been upgraded to dynamic disk, then using the diskpart command can damage your partition table, which leads to loss of data and the need for the recovery partition is inevitable.]

DiskPart to check particular section, which may include the operating system files to boot. If you accidentally mark partition as active, and does not contain the files of the operating system boot, the computer will not start leaving the data inaccessible.

All these cases of lack of access or loss of data requires that the recovery partition partitions contain valuable data. Furthermore, in the previous case, when the backup is not available or not to restore the correct data for any reason, the use of recovery software to recover data partition is the only option remaining.

Partition Recovery tools are safe and easy to use, without any technical knowledge. The application uses a certain set of scanning algorithms, which allows the recovery of lost data.

Windows Vista Recovery Partition After Reinstalling Accidental

2010-09-22T02:15:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Windows Vista is a popular Windows operating system, which develops and markets products of Microsoft Corporation. Windows Vista is available in several versions, can be used in desktops, laptops, PCs, Media Center and Tablet PC. It offers several advantages over its predecessor Windows XP. The operating system includes advanced security features and rich graphical user interface. However, in some cases Vista may not function properly and begin work immediately. In that case, you may need to install Windows Vista fix this problem. However, to install the Vista partition accidentally in the wrong section may result in severe data loss and survival. At this stage, you need to be transformed into effective and Partition Recovery Software to recover lost or damaged partitions.

You can reinstall Windows Vista, when:

You want to replace the current operating system, which is damaged or can not meet your needs.

You want to install Microsoft Windows Vista on the hard disk partition separately to configure your system to dual boot.

You want to restore the default settings for Microsoft Windows.

Use the Startup Disk in Windows Vista to correct some problems starting or booting Vista and accidentally selected for resettlement.

Reinstalling Windows Vista may accidentally cause severe problems if you do not have full backup of your valuable data on the partition.

Relocation Windows Vista can format the hard drive partition, which ultimately removes all existing data on the partition and cause significant loss situations.

You should not panic in cases such as partitions and stored data is permanently deleted from your hard even after the format. The data and partitions will remain intact on the disk until they are replaced by other data.

When the partition is removed, only the partition table to mark a special chamber has been removed. Sharing is still physically intact, and can be recovered in most cases. If you have a backup, so you can reset all data of newly created partition for Windows Vista. If you have not been updated in the backup, use Windows Partition Recovery tool extract lost partitions and data they contain.

Partition Recovery - When Hard Drive Partition is Deleted

2010-09-21T02:26:00.000-07:00

Whenever a hard drive partition is deleted or corrupted, the data loss situation occurs. The data stored in lost partition or volume become critical or challenging job to retrieved. All the operating system has some recovery tool, but it is not capable of complete partition recovery.

The best way to keep data safe is to take regular backup. Through, partition recovery are available in market, but they cannot recovery your complete data. Backup is the only solution to recovery your complete data.

In spite of these steps taken to prevent the data loss. There are chances of losing your partition and data. So, here the question arises how we can recover from it? The answer lies in partition recovery using the partition recovery software.

The good thing for user is, that the partition or stored data cannot be deleted permanently. Deleting a data cannot destroy your partition forever, it only deleted the 16bit entries of partitions, in the partition table.

If you are thinking that nothing could be happen when your data will be deleted , then you are wrong. Overwriting can deleted your data permanently. You should not perform any operations in the corrupted hard drive otherwise data can be removed permanently and it can make it impossible to recover your lost data.

Now, the partition recovery is the only solution. The partition recovery is possible through the partition recovery software . It is a powerful tool which scans your system and make the partition recovery feasible.

Partition Recovery For Corrupt File Index Error

2010-09-20T03:28:00.001-07:00

Working on a windows operating system is very common and all the user are know the functionality of common errors in Windows. However, there are the chances that error may cause loss or inaccessibility of your important data in different file system based partition in the hard drive. Moreover, critical file system corruption may cause partition loss or inaccessibility of data, and is not easy to handle normal user. Such situation may need some technology, such as partition recovery to recover lost or inaccessibility data back.

When attempt to open, rename or delete a file using a file manager or command prompt, an error message will generate and the data become inaccessible. The error message may be the following:

Error:-

:\ is not accessible.
OR
The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable.
OR
The file or directory \ is corrupt and unreadable.
Please Run the Chkdsk utility.

Reason:-

The reason for the following errors may be damage in file allocation table, file, folder or file system index.

Solution:-

1)Try to repair the damaged folder, file system index or file itself using the command prompt 'Chkdsk'. Follow these steps as below:-
2)Click the START menu and press 'RUN'
3) Type the command 'chkdsk/f on the dialogue box and press OK.

However, if you don't retrieve your data from the above steps, then you have to use third party partition recovery software, recover all file, folder or partition table lost.

Missing Partition files Result Blank Screen In Windows XP

2010-09-15T04:27:00.000-07:00

In many occasions , you may found the Windows XP is unable to boot and shows a black screen. Such cases occurs when some critical system file is missing or damaged. These situations occurs due to partition table corruption, abruptly system shutdown, virus infection etc. If all these methods fail then I would suggest to opt professional partition recovery software to recover Windows partition.

Consider a case, When you start your Windows XP system, after completing the POST( Power on Self Test), but hangs and displaying the black screen. No error message will displayed on screen.

Reason:-

Some of the system files are missing or damaged. Because of the missing files the boot sequence is not started during the startup. Missing files can be the following:-

MBR
Boot sector
Partition Table
NTLDR Table

Solution:-

Perform the following option to restore the booting process of Windows XP system.

Solve the boot component that do not load. To do this, following steps should be taken:

Restart the system in safe mode
Check “'Disk Management to see the partition is right
Run the anti-virus program.
Repair MBR in the Recovery Console using the 'fixmbr' command.
Remove the removable media.

If the system does not start after these [process, then there is a need of third party tool i.e partition recovery software. To recover partition from various storage media.

Solution For STOP 0xC0000221 Error

2010-09-14T04:03:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Windows XP operating system is most used in home or business. When the windows XP starts it check the files for integrity. The files contains DLL and drivers files. The DLL files contains Ntdll, Shell, Kernel and many more. And if you install inappropriate device driver, or one of DLL files is missing, then Windows XP halts. This leave you no other choose but to opt Partition Recovery to get your lost data back.

Here are the messages that will generally accomplish a blue screen

STOP: 0xC0000221 STATUS_IMAGE_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH
Path\File_name
Or,
STOP: C0000221 unknown hard error
Path\File_name

When the above error message flashed on the screen, the problem would be in either hardware or network or the specific file is corrupted. If all else fails, then the only think that can save is reinstall Windows XP. But reinstallation means that you can lost all your data. But with the help of backup, it is possible for recover Windows Partition.

However, if no backup is available, then it is difficult situation, and it make partition recovery an impossible task. Then you should go for partition recovery software which recovers complex recovery algorithms to recover data from all storage media.

Solution For Stop Error 0x00000024 Message

2010-09-13T03:41:00.000-07:00

Most of the windows user have faced many errors while working on the system. Some of the errors has too sensitive that may loss your data from hard drive. Following are some errors , which can be recovered through Windows partition recovery software. The error message can be the following:

“Stop 0x00000024”
OR
“NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM”

Reason:-
There can be different reasons from the above message. The primary cause may be the problem in Ntfs.sys file. The Ntfs.sys file is the drive file that can be used to read or write data related to NTFS file system, and any problem in this file may cause data inaccessible. The second reason, may be any damage in the NTFS file system or the damage in the hard drive.

Solution:-
1)Try to read the STOP error by studying its parameters following the error, like source file and line number , the address of context record, the address where the original exception occurs.
2) Try to check the device behind the error from the event viewer for error message like SCSI or Autochk.
3)Disable the virus program,backup programs and try to running hardware diagnostics tool that is available with your system.
4)Try to reduce the number of files named SFM to the kernel.
5)If the above measures fails to identify, then try to check NTFS file system corruption by disconnecting all the data from NTFS volume.
If the above system fails then there is a possibility that the NTFS file system is corrupted or damaged and you need to reinstalled after the formatting the hard drive.

The formatting will deleted all the data from the partition and you need to restore all the data backup. If the data backup is not available the you have to used partition recovery software to recover all the data from formatted partition.

Partition Recovery For Corrupt File System

2010-09-08T23:52:00.000-07:00

Working on Windows system is very common and all users knew the common functionality error in Windows. There are some chances that the error may cause loss or inaccessible of valuable data that are placed in different partition in the hard drive, some particular error may become serious one. However, critical file system corruption results you partition loss or inaccessible of data which is not ease to handle common user. Such situation needs some technology like partition recovery to retrieve the lost data.

While attempting to open the error in file manager or command prompt, an error message may pop up and data become inaccessible. The error message can be any of the following:

:\ is not accessible.
OR
The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable. The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable.
OR
The file or directory \ is corrupt and unreadable.
Please Run the Chkdsk utility.

The above error message could be occur due to file corruption, damage in folder, file allocation table or in file system index.

Solution:-
Try to solve the error manually first using the command prompt write 'Chkdsk'. Follow the following steps:-
Click the Start button and then click on RUN
Type the command chdsk/f in dialog box and press OK
Note: Drive represents the letter in disk drive, in which the damaged particular file and folder exists.

It is the most likely some error are solved using the 'chdsk' command. Sometimes 'Chdsk' fails to resolve the data loss situation, then you have to recover lost data from the third party tool partition recovery software.

Windows 2000 unable to start as McAfee GroupShield Exchange 5.0 has damaged boot.ini file

2010-08-30T23:45:00.000-07:00

The Boot.ini file in the Windows systems is a very essential file that is invoked during system startup. It stores the information of the operating system and the active partition that needs to be accessed when the system is started. Having said that, if the boot.ini file has been tempered with then there would be startup problems, which would lead to further damages to the system. Such cases can arise due to virus infections, third-party incompatibility, bugs in the current version of operating system, etc. You should try out various methods to save your system. If none of the methods work, then I would recommend you to use a third-party partition recovery software to recover partitions of your system.

Looking at an instance in which you are unable to start your Windows 2000 system. An error message is displayed in this regard, which is:

“Windows 2000 could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

\Winnt\System32\Config\System”

Cause:
The primary cause of such error messages during Windows 2000 startup is because of corruption in the Boot.ini file.

The presence of McAfee GroupShield Exchange 5.0 for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server is a very prominent reason behind this. A failed update of the McAfee GroupShield Exchange can corrupt the entries in the Boot.ini file.

Resolution:
To resolve this problem, you should repair Windows startup environment and then install the McAfee GroupShield Exchange field patch. This could be done using the following steps:
• Restart the system using the Windows 2000 Setup CD.
• Press the 'R' key, when the 'Welcome to Setup' menu is displayed.
• Press the 'R' key to select the emergency repair process.
• Press the 'M' key to opt for 'Manual Repair'.
• Press the 'Enter' key to perform the selected operations.
• Perform the operations as they appear on the screen.
• Restart the system and download and install the field patch for McAfee GroupShield Exchange. It should work fine now.

If you are still unable to start the system and it is still inaccessible, then you should resort to using a third-party partition recovery software to recover partitions. Use of fast and sophisticated scanning algorithms along with having rich user interface are some of the best features of such partition recovery tools.

Damaged Master File Table can disable you in deleting a file on a Windows 2000 system

2010-08-29T22:11:00.000-07:00

In the NTFS (New Technology File System) file system, the MFT (Master File Table) table is the database that stores the information of each and every file on the system. There is at least one record for every file and folder, which tells the operating system what to do with the file. Also, the details about the partitions is also stored in the MFT. However, when the MFT gets corrupt it exhibits different types of abnormal behaviors such as disabling you from deleting any file. You should take appropriate actions so that the problem does not aggravate further. If the system becomes inaccessible in the course of action, then you can use a third-party partition recovery software to recover partitions.

Consider a scenario in which you are working on a Windows 2000 system. You are unable to delete few files or folders in the system. The following error message is displayed, when you try to delete a file:

“Cannot delete file name: The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable.”

In addition, the following event ID is logged in the System event log:

“Event ID: 55
Source: NTFS
Description: The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume "Drive_letter:"”

Also, when you try to run the chkdsk utility in the current volume, it may make some repairs. However, when you again try to delete the file you still get the same error message.

Cause:
The most prominent cause of this problem is the corruption in the MFT tables.

When the MFT gets damaged, the file names stored in the FRS (File Record Segment) and the ones in the directory index record do not match. That is why, the files do not get deleted.

Resolution:
To resolve this problem, the only thing that you can do is to reinstall the operating system after formatting the hard disks. But before removing all the data, you should ensure that you take a complete backup properly.

However, if the system becomes inaccessible due to corruption in the MFT table then there is an urgent need to use a partition recovery software to recover partition. By using fast and sophisticated scanning algorithms, these data recovery tools ensure that no data is lost or damaged while recovering the system.

The best partition recovery tool that I can recommend you is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery, which recovers partition from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. Recovering data from various memory devices such as hard drives, iPods, pen drives, external hard drives, etc, this Windows data recovery software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

Encountering problems while converting FAT32 to NTFS file system in Windows XP system

2010-08-24T21:47:00.000-07:00

When you convert the file system of your computer from FAT to NTFS, then the process may not get completed on some occasions. This can happen due to existence of bad sectors on the drive on which FAT partition is there. If you are able to access the FAT partition, then you can restore the inaccessible data. In case, this is not so then the use of a partition recovery software is definitely recommended in this situation to recover Windows partition.

Take a practical situation in which you are trying to convert FAT32 file system to NTFS in your Windows XP system. For this, you use the Convert.exe tool but it does not work. The following error message is displayed, which is:

“The type of the file system is FAT32.
Determining disk space required for file system conversion...
Insufficient disk space for conversion
The conversion failed.
Drive: was not converted to ntfs”

You receive this message even though you have got sufficient free disk space in the mentioned partition.

Cause:
When the Convert.exe tool is used to convert the file system from FAT32 to NTFS, it makes use of certain work areas to create a new MFT (Master File Table) while converting the file systems. And, this error appears when the FAT32 partition that you are trying to convert has some bad sectors in the business area of the partition.

To confirm that the mentioned cause is the actual reason for this problem, you can run the chkdsk /f /r command on the partition that needs to be converted to NTFS. If the output of the CheckDisk utility displays that there are bad sectors on the file system, then this is indeed the root cause of the situation.

Resolution:
To resolve such erroneous situation, you should perform the following steps:
• Safeguard your data from the FAT32 partition by taking a backup.
• Reformat the FAT32 partition with NTFS file system.
• Restore the backed up data to the NTFS file system.

However, there may be chances that you are unable to boot in the FAT32 file system at all. But do not lose heart as there are lots of third-party partition recovery tools that help you to recover Windows partition. The benefits of these recovery tools are that these are very easy to use and read-only in nature.

The best partition recovery software that can help you to recover partition is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. Recovering data from exFAT, FAT, and NTFS file systems, this Windows partition recovery tool works on most Windows platforms including Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

How To Fix “Invalid Bootable Partition Error”

2010-08-17T05:10:00.000-07:00

In hard drive MBR(Master Boot Record) is the first sector. The MBR contain 512 byte which consists of partition table, operating system, bootstrapping, bootable partition. MBR can corrupted due to many reasons like improper shutdown, virus infection and so on.

In such circumstances, the bootable partition get corrupted which results unbootable hard drive partition. This result inaccessibility of data in hard drive. To overcome, the problem of MBR error message, run the FIXMBR in command prompt. However, if the above command is unable to repair the MBR and unable to boot hard drive partition. Then you need partition recovery software to recover the data.

The above case can be described as below:-

“Invalid bootable Partition”

This error message comes when you startup your system. After the message, you are not able to access the data in hard drive. The same message will appears when you try to boot your system through Windows XP

Reason:
The error message will generate due to MBR corruption:

To overcome the above message follow the guideline to access the data from hard drive.

Repair the MBR using FIXMBR in command prompt.

If the above command fails , then write FIXBOOT in command prompt.

If both the command fails then you need to reinstall the operating system. Once the re-installation is completed, all the files become accessible. To access those files, restore data backup. If you have no backup available, use the partition recovery software, to access all the inaccessible files and folders.

Recovery For Master File Table

2010-08-16T02:30:00.000-07:00

NTFS file system contains information about every file in MFT(Master File Table). Windows file system contains first sixteen records of master file table, which is known as 'meta data' to store information of files. The structure of MFT increases the efficiency of file system in terms of accessing files. Any damage of MFT results the inaccessibility of hard drive, you may require partition recovery to recover the inaccessible files.

MFT is like a relational data base table to store various dimension of files in the hard drive. It stores free and used clusters, it is the starting point of storage media and central management of an NTFS volume.

The first record stores the MFT and followed by mirror record of MFT. When the first record get corrupted, the file system reads the second record that is mirror of MFT to trace the information. The first two record is the same. The third entry i.e log file, used for file recovery purposes. The 16th record onwards store the information of every file and folder on drive partition.

The number of entries of the MFT and the data accessed taking information from MFT tells the importance of it. Any type of damage to the MFT due to any reason has the impact on the accessibility of data. It is important to rectify the data first with partition recovery software. It is the process of retrieving your data from logical or physical damaged hard drive.

How to troubleshoot if the Ntfs.sys file goes missing in Windows XP

2010-08-10T23:59:00.000-07:00

In the Windows XP system, the Ntfs.sys file is a system driver file that is stored in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers location. As is the case with most of the system files, this file, too, is very critical for the Windows system. If this file is damaged, then the system would not boot at all. In such cases, you should try out various workarounds. However, if none of them succeed then this situation demands the use of a third-party Windows partition recovery software to recover Windows partition.

Taking a practical example in which you are unable to boot your Windows XP system. The following error message is getting displayed:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys”

Cause:
The reason for this problem is that the Ntfs.sys file is either corrupt, damaged, or missing.

Resolution:
The missing (or corrupt) Ntfs.sys file can be refurbished using the following steps:

Modify the booting preferences so that you can boot the system using a Boot CD.

Insert the Windows XP Setup CD in the CD-ROM drive.

Press the R key, when you are prompted to do so, to repair Windows XP installation.

Enter the following commands in the command prompt, followed by the 'Enter' key after both the commands:
cd \windows\system32\drivers
ren ntfs.sys ntfs.old
If the Ntfs.sys file is corrupt, then this command will rename it. It would not do this, if the Ntfs.sys file is missing.

Enter the following command in the command prompt and press the 'Enter' key:
copy X:\i386\ntfs.sys drive:\windows\system32\drivers
Here, X = CD-ROM Drive

Take the Windows XP CD out.

Type 'Quit' and press the 'Enter' key to exit the Recovery Console.
Restart the system. It should boot properly after repairing the Ntfs.sys file.

In case, the problem is still prevailing, then there must be some other serious problem with the file system. In such case, a thorough format followed with installation of Windows XP should be done. But, that would not guarantee the safety of the valuable data.
Therefore, to safeguard your important data by extracting it, I would suggest you to use a third-party partition recovery software. These utilities help to recover Windows partition without modifying the data one little bit.

Recover NTFS Partition From Partition Recovery Software

2010-08-09T00:18:00.000-07:00

Hard drive is important component of computer to store precious data and install software. For easy and managed your valuable data on the hard drive, you can divide into various partitions. Creating partitions help you to secure you data loss situation, if you hard drive crashes.

In some cases, the NTFS data recovery may get affected due to file corruption, virus infection and more. At that point, some partition loss situation occurs and you require NTFS Data Recovery to solve the problem.

The NTFS is an advanced file system, which is used on Microsoft Windows operating system. The purpose of NTFS is to keep your valuable data safe in case some improper shutdown or system crash.
However, there are various reasons, when your NTFS file system has damaged and you may face partition loss situations. These reasons are the following ones:

Virus Infection- Virus is programs that damage data structure and tour file system.

File System Corruption- File system contains the most significant data, which keep record of all the files on NTFS partitions. When NTFS file system damaged, partition becomes RAW and operating system could not find the location of the file.

Partition Table corruption- Partitions table stores all the information about all NTFS partitions. When partition table gets damaged, partitions cannot be located or accessed.

Hard Drive Formatting- It removes all the stored data and partitions from the hard drive. Unintentional formatting may cause partition loss.

However, in such situations, NTFS Partition Recovery software can help you to recover lost Windows partitions. When partitions loss occurs, only the partition entries from the table are deleted unless until it has been overwritten. The partition remains on the drive and can be recovered by using NTFS Data Recovery tools.

Partition Recovery- How to Recover Your Partition?

2010-08-04T02:18:00.000-07:00

There is easy and quick way to recover your lost or deleted files. Many kind of files including image files, video files, emailed can be restored completely.

The common reason for loss of data is system crashes, virus attacks, disk corruption and software failure. A good partition recovery software will use home users as well as professionals even if they cannot control the deleted files they would retrieve them quite safely.

The software to recover deleted files should be downloaded directly from the internet. A free demo version downloaded that lets the user check out its features be added advantages.

You can recover partition, recover files and folders, entire hard drive with such type of application. After files has been deleted their content is in drive until they are overwritten by some other data.

The software should be able to scan the content to recover deleted files. If the content is overwritten then the partial data has been recovered. These type of product is easy to use and you do need any operator-how to recover.

Features that would make a data recovery software useful to recover lost data as below:

Recover all type of camera file format.

Recover deleted partition, folder and so on

Recover lost partition from Windows hard drive.

Create a clone of your hard drive.

Provides scan option to save the scan information and recovery it later.

Recover all type of file system.

Recover lost , deleted and inaccessible data.

Supports hard drives with damaged sector.

No risk of data destroyed.

Negligent Use Of DiskPart Causes Data Inaccessibility

2010-08-02T00:38:00.000-07:00

DiskPart is a command line tool that manages disks or volume by using direct input commands. DiskPart functionality is to create a disk partition, setting the partition active and partition formatting. As DiskPart has control over the volume and partition, many times, inappropriate usages causes data loss and need partition recovery software.

Here are the cases, where incautious use of DiskPart causes data inaccessibility:

It converts the basic disk into dynamic disk. Before using DiskPart, make sure that the disk must be empty or contain any logical volume so that data loss can be avoided. Moreover, the basic disk containing Ftdisk, which can be converted using Disk manager rather than DiskPart before upgrading, otherwise it may cause data loss situation.

If the hard disk has already upgraded to dynamic disk, then use of DiskPart command can damage the partition table to data loss and partition recovery become expected.

DiskPart verifies the partition which is capable to handle startup files of operating system's. If you mark the partition active and the startup files is not available in operating system, then the data is inaccessible.

On basic disks, through focus you can delete a partition. Thus incorrect choosing partition focus can causes data loss. Recovering a partition in this situation can be done through partition recovery software.

All these cases of data inaccessible as those partition contain valuable data. Therefore, in the above situations when backup is not available or failed to restore then use the partition recovery software is the only solution to recover your lost data.

Every Operating System has Partition Recovery Utility

2010-07-25T23:08:00.000-07:00

Whenever a partition is deleted or corrupted, the data loss problems occurs. Whatever a type of data you had stored on the lost partition, it is always challenging to recovery that lost data. All the computer has partition recovery tool, but generally these tool are not capable to recover your whole partition lost. These tool cannot scan your hard drive to recover your lost partition.

Every operating system has different method to store and organize the data. So that every operating system has different recovery process. The recovery process depends upon the file system which you have using for partitioning your hard drive.

Take a backup, to keep your data safe. In market, partition recovery software are available,but there is no guarantee to recover complete partition.

Although all these steps, there are quite few chances to loss your partition and stored data. So, to recovery the partition or lost data use partition recovery software.

The partition or stored data never get deleted permanently, only the 16 bit entries in the partition table are removed. The only way to remove your data permanently, is to overwrite your corrupt partition and make it impossible to recover your lost data from the overwritten documents.

The solution of partition recovery is possible through partition recovery software. It is a powerful tool which perform scan of entire hard drive and make the partition recovery possible.

Most important thing of partition recovery is to select the powerful partition recovery software. The wrong decision, could ruin your data and make it completely unrecoverable.

Data Loss Due To Cross Linked Files

2010-07-20T00:31:00.000-07:00

In Windows operating system data has been managed into several different sections, which are knows as clusters. Each cluster has individual entry, which includes the information of file like file type, file size,name of the file, creation date and time and address of the cluster where starting address of the file and file header is stored. Any damage of this area might loss your data and require partition recovery to be handled.

The windows file system has entry for each cluster. The entry of every cluster contains address of next cluster used by the file or a code the specifies that this is the last cluster of the file.

The cross linking of files generally occurs, when two files are marked as a same memory cluster. This is the serious file error, which damages the data of the existing file by overwriting the new data of another file on same location that is allocated by another file. The cross linked files are generally created when your system is improperly shutdown and file system got some error.

Resolve the cross linked file error

The only method is to remove both the files. When you remove both the file, the cluster is marked as “free to use”. If you remove one file, the lusted is marked as unused but the file system shows that specific cluster belongs to a file.

Ultimate result shows the critical loss of data and requires partition recovery software. Recovery can be done with the help of third party software to recover windows partitions.

Recover Windows XP After Improper File Conversion

2010-07-19T05:02:00.000-07:00

Have you recently change the file structure of Windows XP from FAT 32 to NTFS? So, during conversion you are facing some problem. In such situation, the system become inaccessible. To resolve the issue you should use in-place repair of Windows system. However, if the problem still occurs, then you should use third party partition recovery software to recover your lost data.

Let us assume, you changed your file structure from FAT32 to NTFS file system using the 'convert drive: /fs:ntfs' command. The error message will be displyed like

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys”

Reason:

During the conversion from file system FAT32 to NTFS, the Ntfs.sys file is missing or corrupted.

Solution:

Following steps should be taken to resolve the error:

Start the system using Windows XP CD-ROM.

To Start the repair process, enter the Recovery Console and press the R key

Type the following command and press

cd\windows\system32\drivers
ren ntfs.sys ntfs.old

The ntfs.sys file will be renamed if it is corrupted, otherwise file is missing.

Enter the following command
copy X:\i386\ntfs.sys drive:\windows\system32\drivers

Press the Enter key to quit the Recovery Console

Restart your system. It should be able to start properly now.

However, there are some incident where the above method doesn't work. In such situation, the only solution left is to reformat your hard drive, before reformatting take the backup of all your data and then reinstall the operating system.

Windows 7 Partition- Access Denied Error Post Downloading an Application

2010-07-14T22:38:00.000-07:00

In partition data storage device MBR is the first sector. It is important for your system to work properly because MBR holds the primary partition table. If MBR get corrupted, your data is not accessible or unreadable. Without a partition table windows cannot access the disk partitions. In such case, you need to recreate the partition from scratch and apply several techniques to recover Windows Partition data.

Real time problem that caused Windows partitions to become inaccessible. Let say you are using Windows 7 and download an application from a website. When you download the application, the system gets hand and freezes. You cannot open the ' Task Manager' and you have to shutdown the system.

After the above events, when the system boots, it will take time. Later you observe that the data partitions are undetectable under Windows 7. Additionally, some error message suggest to run
‘Startup Recovery’ during subsequent reboots.

Reason:

MBR may be corrupted.

Solution:

Resolve the issue by choosing 'Last Known Good Configuration’ option . You have to perform some steps to resolve this error.

Boot your computer with Windows & installation CD.

Access it command prompt and execute fixmbr command.

Check if the issue still exist. Perform clean windows reinstall.
If the problem remain same you have to repartition or reformat your hard drive.

After reformatting the disk partitions, you need to restore the data as backup. In case if no data backup is available, the only solution is to use Partition Recovery Software which can retrieve all the data from your hard drive.

Never Easy Before to Recover Lost Partition

2010-07-14T02:18:00.000-07:00

Generally every computer user using disk partitioning to divide the storage space of the hard disk The purpose of making partition is installation of different operating system into it. Sometimes a partition gets corrupted because of operating system malfunctioning, virus infection or due to re-sizing of partition area All these cases leads to inaccessible of data stored on that particular hard drive. In order to get your data back, you need to restore the partition and rectify the issue related to partition corruption. However, if you have not taken the backup then you have to use a partition recovery software.

Let's take an example:
These days tool are available for making partitions on existing hard drive without any loss of stored data. Take a example you want to resize old hard drive partition and during that time, a power outage. At that moment your system get shutdown and blue screen with a message.

Error message like:

“A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to our computer”

Explanation:
The system stops booting when Blue Screen of Death appears. Hence, all the data in the hard drive become inaccessible.

Cause:
Partition get corrupted due to internal problem with windows operating system. If the partition is being carried out by a third party tool and is interrupted in the middle.

Resolution:
Start your computer and press the F8 key to go to the windows advanced menu. When advanced menu appears, select the last known Good configuration, and press the enter.
Disable your anti-virus or backup utilities, boot from the install CD.
Use CHKDSK command to check and repair the hard drive corruption.

If the above solution fails to resolve the issue, you need to recreate all the hard drive partitions by reformatting the system. Reformatting will erase all the data in the hard drive partitions and you have to use any effective partition recovery application to recover and restore lost data.

Partition Recovery - Fix The Problem Of Windows Registry Corruption

2010-07-13T03:45:00.000-07:00

Windows Registry is the important part of a Microsoft Windows operating system. It is essential for your system, registry work properly. In case, if Windows registry get damaged, the system become un-bootable and data become inaccessible. Such type of behavior may cause data loss situations. To resolve this issue use partition recovery.

Windows registry contains all information of hardware, software and operating system. It also offers an interface for tweaking the operations of windows kernel as per performance, accessibility. It tells currently active hardware and performance counters.

Windows registry is important component for windows operating system, its corruption may cause data loss situation. When the registry is corrupted , you may face error messages :

"ERROR_REGISTRY_CORRUPT
The registry is corrupted. The structure of one of the files that contains registry data is corrupted, or the system image of the file in memory is corrupted, or the file could not be recovered because the alternate copy or log was absent or corrupted."

Reason:

The problem occurs due to corruption of Windows Registry or Windows can not find required files.

Solution:

In order to sort out the problem, you should repair Windows registry. If registry backup is already created , then restore it using import option in Windows Registry Editor.
Although, this process can fix the problem, but incorrect process may cause data loss situation and you need to format your operating system.
By formatting the hard drive and reinstalling the operating system you can solve the software level issues related to the operating system, but it also erases all data and causes complete data loss from the selected partition. In such cases, to recover data from the lost partition, you need to opt for Partition Recovery Software.

Fix NTFS File System Corruption From Windows Partition Recovery

2010-07-12T02:22:00.000-07:00

NTFS is a file system for Windows operating system. It is a successor of FAT file system and provides enhanced features like functionality, performance and reliability. Some advanced features of Windows NT based operating system are supported by NTFS file system. The file system has new structure for storage, access and manipulation of data. However, in some cases, the structure of NTFS file system may corrupted and file system partition cannot be accessed. It causes Windows partition loss and requires partition recovery to resolved this issues.

To perform the specific operations, the NTFS file system uses a number of system files. Attributes of NTFS file system are as below:-

Multiple Data Streams- It supports various data streams, where stream name recognizes new data attributes on file.

Reparse Points- Its has definable attributes, having user- controlled and are employed for extending functionality in input output subsystem.

Change Journal- It offers a pertinacious log of all the modifications made to Windows files on NTFS partition.

Sparse File- It enables windows applications to create large files.

Data Encryption- Its prevents unauthorized access of your valuable data.

In some situations, the structure of NTFS file system corrupt and error message will occurs when accessing the partition:

Event ID: 41
Source: Diskperf
Description: The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the device with label “Volume_name”

In such cases, to fix the file system problem you need to format your hard drive and reinstall your operating system. However, it removes all the disk partitions and causes further partition loss situation.
You can easily recover partition using partition recovery software. It scan the Windows hard drive using advanced scanning algorithms

File Loss 'Due to W32 Nopir C Worm' in Windows

2010-07-07T23:46:00.000-07:00

Viruses are major threats for you important files on a Microsoft Windows operating system.Sometimes there is a situation, when you start your computer, you find that most of your multimedia files are missing like .mp3, .mpeg,. avi, .rar. At first sight you may not find the cause of the file loss. Non-technical users could not find how the files has been deleted. In such circumstances, to retrieve the partition or lost files, you need to opt the partition recovery software.

When the above condition occurs, you might find out that all the hardware and software are working fine for your computer, The system starts properly and all the files can be easily accessed, which are on the hard drive. But your multimedia files are missing.

Cause of Issue:-

Such sort of file loss are caused by the viruses and worms. There are number of programs available in market, which are designed to destroyed specific type of data files. Such kind of harmful worm in W32.Nopir.c.

W32.Nopir.c is an extremely destructive and powerful worm, which spreads file sharing tools such as Kazaa, Gnucleus and Morpheus. Such worms lower the system security and delete files like .MP3, .AVI, .MPG, .RAR all type of multimedia files.

This infection would result into partition file loss and would required third party tool partition recovery.

Resolution

In order to get lost file back, you need to restore the files from most recent backup of your files. Backup is the excellent solution for preventing your files and partition loss situations. But if u don't have backup, then you need to use partition recovery software to retrieve lost files from storage media.

These are powerful and advanced third party tools, which scan whole hard drive and extract all of the files from it. These tools have graphical user interface with self-descriptive features and thus allow you to have quick and easy recovery. The Partition Recovery Software does not alter the original contents of files as they have read-only conduct.

Recover NTFS Partition From Corrupt Operating System

2010-07-02T03:14:00.000-07:00

Every computer has at least one operating system. It works as an interface between the hardware and the user. It is a group of system software, which regulates the way in which application can use hardware and user can control the system. However, in some situations, you find that your operating system is damaged and unable to boot. This behavior gives hard drive partition inaccessible and occurs partition loss situations. To resolve this issue and recover lost Windows hard drive partitions, NTFS partition recovery is required.

Essential components of Windows operating systems:

Boot Loader: MS Windows consists of a boot loader, called Ntldr, to load operating system into main memory, while booting.

Master Boot Record: It's responsibility is storing primary partition table, uniquely identifying storage media, and bootstrapping operating system.

Boot partition: It stores all significant files and data structure of Windows operating system.

File system: It is a database to store , manage or manipulate files on hard drive.

Reason of operating system corruption:

Virus Infection: Virus are program that may damage operating system, hard drive structure and put you in need of NTFS data recovery.

Improper system shutdown: Operating system may crash because of improperly system shutdown.

Corrupt data structures: If boot loader, MBR and data structures get damaged , operating system may not work properly.

When operating system corruption occurs, you are not able to boot the system. Hard drive partitions become inaccessible and partition loss situations take place. To sort out the problem, we requires NTFS partitions recovery.

Recovery is possible using the third party tool , known as NTFS data recovery software. The application scan entire hard drive and extract inaccessible partition from it.

MBR Corruption Make System Unable To Boot

2010-07-01T00:26:00.000-07:00

When you start the system, the MBR is accessed first, then the remaining processes are carried out. So, it is very important for the computer. Sometimes, the MBR gets corrupted and making the system inaccessible. In such circumstance, you should use the method to recover Windows Partition. If the problem still remain the same, then you should use a third party Windows partition recovery software to solve the recover partition.

Let assume a situation, where you are using Windows XP system. When you start the system fails to boot. An error message will be displayed on your screen:

Operating system not found
Missing Operating system

Then you start the system from the Recovery Console mode to fix. However, here as well you get error message:

“Setup did not find any hard drives installed on your computer.”

Reason?

There could be various reasons:

Hard disk is damaged thus unable to access.

The sector 0 of hard disk has damaged MBR.

Partition having MBR is inactive.

Solution:

The following steps has been performed to recover partition:

Contact hardware manufacture

Verify the BIOS settings

Use Recovery Console

If you would not be able to boot your system using the above methods, then use the third party partition recovery software to recover Windows partitions. These partition recovery tools do not overwrite the the existing data while scanning the storage media.

Retrieve Damaged Partition Table While Merging Two Partition

2010-06-24T00:19:00.000-07:00

Windows users divide hard drive into partitions. Each partition has certain important entries, which are stored in 64 byte data structure known as 'partition table'. Entries saved in the table can be corrupted due to improper system shutdown while partitioning, virus attack. In these situation, the partition become unmountable and the data becomes inaccessible.

To overcome such problem, the user needs to format the hard drive, re-partition it and then store the data from an updated backup. If there is incomplete or no back available, the user needs to search third party partition recovery software to recover all the partitions.

Let us assume the above situation, In Windows XP based system you have three partition ( C, D, E). You decide two partition to be merged ( C and D). To do so, you use third party tool. However, when the merging operation is performed, the application crashed. The crash could be occurred due to following reasons:-

Bug(s) in the third-party application.

Operating system malfunction.

When you try to boot the system, it does not boot and data saved in all the partition is inaccessible.

Cause:-
Corruption in Partition Table entries. The entries remain in partially changed state due incomplete merging process.

Solution:-
Format the hard drive and recreate all the partitions. Restore the data from the updated backup. It is easy and simple, it fails to resolve when you have not maintained any backup. In such situation, you will need to opt partition recovery tool. Such partition recovery utility recover and restore all the lost data post formatting of the hard drive.

Recover Unrecognizable Windows Partition

2010-06-22T23:46:00.000-07:00

Microsoft launches updates and new service packs of its products. Updates can be installed on your operating system and take advantages of enhanced features of windows operating system. In some cases, the installation process cannot complete and system remains in partially updated state.

At this state, your Windows hard drive partitions become inaccessible and they may be partition loss situation. In order to recover this solution you may go for Partition Recovery Software, if backup is unavailable.

In a practical scenario, when updates are installed in Microsoft Windows XP on dynamic disk, the error message will generate:

“Windows XP cannot recognize the partition you selected.

Setup cannot install Windows XP on this partition.

Setup will be created another partition where you can install Windows XP.”

After the error message, installation process stop in halfway and your system become inaccessible. At this time, you required to identify the problem and fix it through Partition Recovery.

Cause:-

Unrecognizable Hard drive.

Hard drive appears to be corrupted.

Structure of hard drive is damaged.

File system is either damaged or not supported by the service pack that are installing.

Solution:-

To sort out the problem, overwritten the following steps:

Use ChkDsk utility to check the integrity and consistency of your Windows hard drive.

Format the hard drive, reinstall operating system, and restore data from the recent backup.

In case if the backup is not available, severe data loss occurs as hard drive formatting removes all the data from the disk. In such cases, Windows Partition Recovery Software becomes need of hour.

Recover Data When Windows XP Is Unable To Boot

2010-06-22T03:11:00.000-07:00

In Windows systems, the hall.dll file is abstract layer file the act a interlink between the operating system and hardware. The file is required to boot the system. If the file gets corrupt, then you are not able to start system. Such cases would occur when then there is virus infection, power outages, abrupt system shutdown etc. There are several methods to fix such problem. However, if none of the work then you should use partition recovery software to recover the inaccessible data.

Consider a case where you system will not able to start. An error message will be displayed:

“Winnt_root\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt:
Please re-install a copy of the above file.”
When you try to repair the installation, the previous windows installation is not detected. Because, you are not able to repair Windows.

Cause:

The default vale of the Boot.ini file is either missing or corrupt.
In the Boot.ini file, the location of the Windows XP is different than the actual location.
The Ntoskrnl.exe file is either corrupt or missing.
In the Boot.exe file, the partition part is set incorrectly.

Resolution:

To resolve this problematic situation, you should perform either of the following methods:

You should edit the Boot.ini file. This would serve the following two purposes:

To restore or correct the default entry of the Boot.ini file.

To make sure that other entries in the Operating Systems section of the Boot.ini file reference to the proper locations.

In the Recovery Console, you should use Bootcfg utility. This utility will correct the Boot.ini file.

In the Recovery Console, you should run the chkdsk /r command. This command is used to repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information from the disk.

You would be able to start your system using these methods. However, if you are not able to access the system then you should use a partition recovery software. Such partition recovery tools are able to recover partition using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Windows 7 Partition Corrupted Directory After Resizing

2010-06-21T00:20:00.000-07:00

Windows 7 Disk Management tool allows you to resize existing hard disk partitions, without any help of third-party tool. Before running the tool, it is however strongly advice to backup all the important data. The post resizing the partition can sometimes corrupt the structure of file. As a result, your partition is not accessible and data may be lost. To recover such situation, you need to restore the backup or use a third party tool Windows Partition Recovery Software that can recover the lost data.

In such situation, you can consider a practical situation when you try to resize two partition on Windows 7 based computer. Shrink the first partition by A and extend the second one with the same value. Next time, when you try to access the second partition ,it is no longer accessible with an error as mentioned below:-

“:\ is not accessible
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.”
You cannot access the data stored in this partition.

What is the reason?

This problem can comes in Windows 7 computer if one or more of the file structure or partition table have got corrupted due to partition resizing

Solution

To resolve this problem, these are the solution

Try repairing the file system using chkdsk with /f switch. You can run this tool only if you have a full data backup. To do so, click 'Start' and then 'Run'. You can then type 'chkdsk /f ' in the 'Open' box and click OK. Here, the drive name should be exactly what is appearing in error message.

Alternatively, you can opt for deleting the corrupt partition provided the backup is available.

If no backup exists, you could consider to use a Windows Data Recovery utility. These are powerful and valid Windows Partition Recovery utilities built to scan the corrupt partitions and safely recover the lost data. The applications are easy to install and use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software is a feature-rich and advanced tool that recovers lost, corrupt, damaged, and deleted Windows partitions.

Challenge 'Worst Case Scenarios' of Partition Loss

2010-06-19T00:20:00.000-07:00

Every user who uses personal system would face the problem of data loss. Your system will be unpredictable from time to time and you may need of data recovery. The most common consequence of data loss is partition deletion or partition corruption, file system corruption and so forth.

All these example causes the data loss. In such situations, either you cannot access your hard drive or your hard drive is invisible. This is the most crucial situation, which user could face and may lead to data loss. The situation gets even more worst when lost partition contains your important data.

At that point, the only thing in mind comes, how to recover partition and data. Due to importance of data , it is necessary to perform partition recovery as soon as possible.

Luckily, when something like partition or data loss from your system, it remains in your hard drive. Only the operating system could not access the data due to loss of some data structure.

However, if you are unable to do so then you should use a third-party Windows partition recovery software to rectify the issue and recover your inaccessible data.

Partition recovery software is easy to use applications, designed to completely scan the entire hard drive and carry through all of the data from it. These software are made available by a number of data recovery companies, but to ensure complete partition recovery, it needs a powerful partition recovery software.

Windows XP- Can't Install on Dynamic Disks

2010-06-18T02:55:00.000-07:00

In Windows XP and later version, Dynamic Disks are created to get benefits of extended features and functionally, which are not in basic disks. You can simple use the dynamic volume, as compared to basic volume. However, you cannot install Windows XP in dynamic volume. Before installation of operating system, you must delete the dynamic partition, which loss the partition. In such situation partition recovery software retrieve lost partitions.

As an practical example of this problem with Windows operating system, you may come across the below error message when you try to install Windows XP on dynamic disk:-

Unrecognized the partition you selected.

Setup cannot install on this partition.

New partition has been created to install the Windows XP.

Cause:-

This behavior may occur because Windows XP cannot install to dynamic disk. Windows XP can only install to partition on basic disk or to partition on dynamic disk, which is a boot or system partition.
This restriction is because MBR (Master Boot Record) partition table must present before using simple dynamic disk for installing Windows XP.

Resolution:-
In order to resolve this problem by deleting dynamic partition. When Windows XP deletes partition on dynamic disk, it automatically reverts into basic disk. All the dynamic volumes are removed and data will be lost. Before, removing the partition from dynamic disk, some error message will be displayed:

The partition you attempted to delete is on a dynamic disk. Deletion of this partition will make all other partitions on this disk unusable.

Do not delete this partition if you need to keep any of the data on any of the partitions on this disk.”

However, if you remove the partition, Windows Data Recovery becomes essential to recover lost partition. So, recover partition using third-party applications, known as Partition Recovery Software, to handle all types of data loss scenarios.

Partition Recovery Software- How to Recover Partition on System

2010-06-17T02:36:00.000-07:00

Generally we delete files and partition our hard drive are not uncommon.Often, we delete some of our important files, folders and even hard drive partitions. This results in loss of data and wastage of a lot of time and effort.

Many software companies spent years on research, how partition can be achieved in very little time. Today, there are so many software available in the market that can be used to recover lost partitions.

Before using a software to recover partition, one should understand the cause of partition corrupted or lost. Mostly, partitions become inaccessible when they are damaged by viruses.

When the hard drive partition gets in accessible user get error message informing that the desired partition is no longer accessible. To recover the partition again, user need a good partition recovery software.

Remember that partition recovery software vary from one another in terms of features. As a result, some people think how recovering partition appears simple for one user and inconvenent to others.therefore, it is important to go for most efficient software.

Well equipped partition recovery software will retrieve the partition in following steps:-

The first priority of partition recovery software is to look for the lost content in the drives.

If the old content is overwritten by fresh data, the software retrieves partial files.

Most importantly partition recovery software retrieves a damaged master boot record which starts the Windows Boot procedure. The master boot record consists of a partition table which helps in locating the lost partition table. This is the most important step which plays a crucial role in recovering the lost partition.

It becomes easy to understand how recovering partition is made possible with the use of efficient partition recovery software.

Restore Windows XP When HAL File Is Missing

2010-06-16T03:09:00.000-07:00

In Windows NT ( Server 2000, XP, and 2003) systems, the HAL( Hardware Abstraction Layer) file is a collection of technology and drivers that communicate with the hardware. It prevents the application from system conflicts and system crashes. Sometimes, the HAL file may corrupt and making the system inaccessible. Such problem may occur due to virus infections, power outages, damaged files etc. In such case, you should use third-party Windows partition recovery software to resolve the issue.

Consider a situation, wherein your Windows XP system is unable to start when switch is on. An error message is displayed.

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.
Windows root\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

Partition of system drive is corrupted.

What are the reasons?

The boot record in the system drive is corrupted.

The Hal.dll and the Ntoskrnl.exe files are mismatched.

Resolution:

To access the data, you should perform the following methods :

Resolution for Cause 1:

Repair the master boot record by using fixmbr in the Windows XP Recovery Console.

If the system drive has FAT partition, then use fixboot in the Windows XP Recovery Console to write a new boot sector on the system drive. Then, use fixmbr to repair the master boot record.

Resolution for Cause 2:

Start the system from the Windows XP installation media, start the Recovery Console, and then use Bootcfg.exe to rebuild the Boot.ini file.

However, if you are not able to recover partition by using these methods, then you should use a third-party partition recovery software to recover Windows partition. These tools do not overwrite the storage media while scanning it.

Recover Partition In Case Of 'Missing Operating System ' Error

2010-06-15T04:48:00.000-07:00

A partition in a hard disk is created to keep the system files and data files separated from each other.Their should be enough space for virtual memory paging and swapping to keep the system files away from the data files.Also, if one of our drives get corrupted then other partitions do not affected. However, the partition has also prone to corruption and the corruption can happen due to various reasons such as power outages, improper shutdown,virus effected etc. In such case you should rectify the issue. However, if you are not able to rectify the solution then you should use third party Windows partition recovery to recover the files.

An error message will be displayed when you are unable to boot your Windows XP system
1)Operating system not found
2)No Operating system found
3)Missing Operating system

When you boot your system from Recovery console following error message will be displayed

Setup did not find any hard drives in your computer.

What are the reasons?

There could be the following reason for the above error message:-
1)The hard disk is corrupted.
2) BIOS setting are configured in a way that it is unable to detect.
3)The partition contains MBR is not active.

Resolution:-

Check the BIOS settings: Ensure that the BIOS recognize the hard disk.
Use Recovery console: Use the fixmbr command in the Recovery console to repair the MBR of the system drive.

However, if you still are not able to resolve the issue then you should use a third-party Windows partition recovery software to recover partition.

Windows Unbootable and Unexpected Shutdown

2010-05-21T02:42:00.000-07:00

In Microsoft Windows system there is an automatic disk check when the system undergoes unexpected shutdown for file system errors. Once the process starts, it should not be interrupted in anyway or otherwise can cause unrecoverable errors. Apart from rendering the data inaccessible, it can introduce several corruption errors to critical data structures of the disk.

The data thus lost should be restored from available backup. However, you can use more effective products of Partition Recovery in case no access to valid data backup is feasible. To illustrate it, consider a scenario of unexpected shutdown with your Windows based system. The next time when it restarts, the disk check runs to scrutinize the disk for consistency. You kill the operation, but when you restart the computer, the system is unable to boot.

Consequently, you receive errors, such as it cannot locate Windows. The installation disk repair function fails too. Additionally, when you attach the corrupted hard drive to gain data access, the Disk Management shows it with unknown status and displays the disk space as unallocated.

You run a third-party tool to examine the disk and it gives errors that suggest that boot sector is bad and shows messages, similar to: “A valid NTFS (or FAT) Boot sector must be present in order to access any data; even if the partition is not bootable”

You cannot access the data stored on disk partitions. The prime reasons for such behavior is that boot sector or partition table is badly damaged. Since no Windows utility works to bring the hard disk back, you should use a third-party utility to write a new boot sector or partition table. Such tools can recreate Windows partitions, but won't allow you to access the data.

The lost data should be restored from the backup. However, if no suitable backup is available at present, you need to opt for a powerful Partition Recovery Software. These Windows Partition Recovery utilities are feature-rich products with advanced technology to restore lost, missing or deleted partitions. It is advised to use the product before formatting or repartitioning the disk to avoid any consequences due to data overwriting.

How to recover Windows XP when the boot.ini file is corrupted or missing

2010-05-20T04:34:00.000-07:00

The boot.ini file is the Microsoft initialization file in the Windows NT, 2000, and XP operating systems. It is located at the root directory of the C drive, that is, the primary hard disk drive. It is used to display the menu of available operating systems in the system. Then, you can select the operating system that you want to use.

However, sometimes the boot.ini file gets corrupted because of various reasons such as virus infections, power outages, abrupt system shutdown, etc. In such situations, you should try certain methods to recover the data. However, if you are unable to do so then you should use a Partition Recovery tool to recover Windows files.

Consider a scenario wherein you your Windows XP computer in unable to boot. An error message is displayed, that is:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

Windows\System32\Hal.dll”

Cause:

The cause of the aforementioned error is that the boot.ini file is missing, which is the system unable to boot.

Resolution:

To address the issue, you should perform the following steps:

• Enter Windows XP Recovery Console.

◦ Press any key to boot the system from the CD.

◦ Allow Windows XP to begin the Setup Process.

◦ Press R to enter Recovery Console.

◦ Choose the Windows Installation.

◦ Enter the administrator password.

◦ Make necessary changes in the Windows XP Recovery Console.

• Type bootcfg/rebuild and press Enter. It will scan the hard drives and the result is displayed.

• You are prompted to Add installation to boot list?

Press Y and press Enter.

• You are prompted to Enter Load Identifier.

• Enter Windows XP Professional or Windows XP Home Edition and press Enter.

• You are prompted to Enter OS Load options.

• Type /Fastdetect and press Enter.

• Type Exit and press Enter to start your PC.

The aforementioned method should recover the boot.ini file and address the issue. However, if you still are not able to boot the Windows system then you should use a third-party Partition recovery software. Such read-only tools are able to recover most of the data using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a Windows data recovery software that enables you to recover lost, deleted, formatted files from all instances of data loss. It is able to recover Windows files from various storage devices and from both FAT and NTFS file systems. In addition, this tool is capable of recovering deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, Server 2000.

Moving Hard Drive to Another Computer Causes Partition Loss in Windows XP

2010-05-19T02:11:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Windows operating system enables you to move your working Windows hard drive from one computer to another and access it. It helps you to have two different hard drives with different operating systems, for the same computer. When you attach your hard drive to another computer, it is easily accessible and bootable. However, under some situations, you can not boot your system after moving your hard drive from one system to another.

You get boot errors while starting your computer and boot process gets halted. This behavior renders all your Windows hard drive partitions inaccessible and causes serious partition loss situations. In such circumstances, you need to opt for partition recovery software to retrieve lost partitions.

After moving your Windows XP hard drive, which is a boot or system device, to the backup computer, you may encounter the below error message while trying to boot system:

“STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF741B84C,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE”

The boot process is terminated with this error message. The error occurs every time you try to boot your system. This behavior does not let you access the hard drive partitions and partition recovery becomes need of hour.

Root of the issue

The problem may take place due to any of the below reasons:

• Registry entries and drivers for mass storage controller hardware on backup system aren't installed in MS Windows XP.

• Your Windows computer is infected by serious boot sector virus, which has damaged or corrupted the boot sector.

• The system or boot volume of your system is corrupted and it can not be initialized by Microsoft Windows XP operating system. If file system is damaged and Windows XP can not initialize boot volume during startup, you face this behavior.

Resolution

You can try to resolve the problem and performing Windows partition recovery using the below steps:

• Use same hardware for backup computer.

• Use an updated and powerful anti-virus application to detect and remove boot sector viruses.

• Use Chkdsk utility to repair damaged boot volume.

• Format Windows hard drive and reinstall operating system.

Formatting the Windows hard drive removes all the partitions from it and causes severe partition loss. In such cases, partition recovery software help you to recover lost Windows partitions and store lost data. They easily and safely recover lost partitions in all cases of partition loss.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive and powerful utility to ensure absolute recovery of lost partitions. The software recovers all NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. It works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Vista Boot Failure and BCD Corruption Error

2010-05-17T01:42:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has released Windows Vista version which has different boot process in comparison to what has been used in earlier versions of Windows. After the BIOS is loaded, MBR and then boot sector are accessed. The boot sector further loads the boot blocks and Windows Boot Manager. After this, BCD store is loaded to reach to the final stage of starting the operating system. If the process halts in anyway, Windows Vista will not boot.

This leads to data inaccessibility and to restore it, you might need to use your backup. If this too fails, you should use a Partition Recovery Utility to recover and restore it. For example, consider a scenario when you try to boot a Windows Vista based computer system, but the operations fails. Consequently, you run Startup Repair using installation disc, but this too fails and reports the following error:

Root cause found:
Boot configuration is corrupt.
Repair action: Partition table repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x490

The above error might occur accompanied with other errors also.

Windows Vista boot code or Winload.exe is severely corrupted beyond startup repair. Since Startup Repair of recovery disc is unable to fix the errors, you need to follow suggestions like: You can use Bootsect.exe command in order to restore the boot code and MBR information. It transfers the control to BOOTMGR (Windows Boot Manager).

To do this, you should boot the computer using Windows Vista installation DVD and access its command prompt to run the following command:

Drive:\boot\Bootsect.exe /NT60

If the above step fails, try running commands through WinRE like:

bcdedit /set {default} device partition= Drive:
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=Drive:
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device partition=Drive:
BOOTREC /FIXMBR
BOOTREC /FIXBOOT
BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD
BOOTREC /SCANOS

In both the steps above, Drive should be replaced with the drive letter of your primary partition. If you still cannot boot into Windows Vista, reformat and reinstall the system using WinRE. To restore the missing data, use your current data backup. In any case of backup issues, you are suggested to use Partition Recovery Software. However, using Partition Recovery Software before actually formatting the disk partition proves more beneficial in prospects considering to recover all data safely.

NTFS Logical Drive Deleted and NTFS Partition Recovery

2010-05-15T00:36:00.000-07:00

In Windows XP we can divide a hard disk into four primary partitions, one of which can be an extended partition. The extended partition can be further subdivided into multiple logical drives. The following reading describes an issue when you can lose an NTFS formatted logical drive in a dual-boot system using Windows XP.

While such problems, you should make sure to have a valid data backup to restore it. But if it is unavailable for any reason, you need to use a powerful Windows Partition Recovery utility.

Consider the following scenario:

If you configure to dual-boot between Windows 98 or 95 and Windows XP and one of the primary partitions is FAT formatted. You have two or more logical drives in an extended partition of Windows XP. An NTFS logical drive exists before the FAT logical drive so you use Fdisk to delete the FAT logical drive (occurring after NTFS logical drive), but can see only FAT logical drive labeled with drive letter of NTFS drive. You delete the FAT drive. You restart Windows XP, but the NTFS drive is no longer accessible in Logical Disk Manager

Such issues are observed because NTFS logical drive is not recognized by Fdisk in an extended partition. So, if an NTFS logical drives comes before FAT drive, it deletes the NTFS drive instead when you try to delete the FAT drive, for which you might not have complete backup.To prevent such events from occurring, you should use Windows Logical Disk Manager to change logical drives' information.

It is recommended not to use Fdisk when dual-boot configuration between Windows 98 or 95 and Windows XP is being used. After you accidentally delete the NTFS partition, its entire data is lost. To restore it, you should check the availability and status of backup. If it exists in valid form, you need to apply it.

Alternatively, you can use Windows Data Recovery products to recover it. NTFS Partition Recovery utilities are exclusively designed tools with powerful technology and interactive design that provide complete recovery of lost, deleted, damaged or missing Windows partitions. Windows Data Recovery is a reliable and globally known tool to recover lost and missing data. The tool uses advanced scanning algorithms, while adhering to data security.

It is a comprehensive Windows Partition Recovery application that supports Windows 7 , Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. It provides powerful features, which include RAW File Recovery, Drive Status, Disk Cloning etc.

Recovering corrupt partition in a Windows XP-based system

2010-05-13T23:45:00.001-07:00

Disk partitioning is the feature in operating systems that involves dividing the hard disk into various logical parts referred as partitions. Partitioning enables you to keep the data files away from the system-related files. This way, you also have a separate area for virtual memory swapping, which results in increased performance and reduced turnaround time of the system. However, sometimes the partitions in the system get corrupt due to various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, power outages, corrupt operating system, etc.

In such cases, you should take appropriate steps to resolve the issue. However, if you are not able to perform partition recovery then you should use third-party Windows partition recovery software to recover Windows partition.

Consider a scenario wherein you are unable to start your Windows XP system. An error message is getting displayed, that is:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.

Windows root\system32\hal.dll.

Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

Cause:

There could be the following reasons for the aforementioned error message:

• The system has a bad partition or a bad boot record.

• The Hal.dll or the Ntoskrnl.dll file are corrupted because of the file system corruption.

• The Hal.dll and the Ntoskrnl.exe files are mismatched.

Resolution:

For each of the aforementioned cause, you can perform the following methods, respectively, to perform partition recovery:

• Run the fixmbr command from the Windows XP Recovery Console to repair the Master Boot Record (MBR).

• Run the fixboot command from the Windows XP Recovery Console to write a new boot sector on the system partition, if the system drive is FAT partitioned. Then, run the fixmbr command to repair the MBR.

• In the Recovery Console, run the Bootcfg.exe command to rebuild the Boot.ini file.

However, if you are still not able to resolve the issue then you should use a third-party partition recovery software to recover partition. Such read-only tools are able to use fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms to perform partition recovery without overwriting the original data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is partition recovery software that enables you to recover Windows partition. It is able to recover the data from lost or formatted partitions from various storage media such as pen drive, hard disks, external hard drives, etc. This Windows partition recovery software is able to recover lost data from both FAT and NTFS file systems. In addition, this tool is able to recover lost emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

While Installing Windows Vista on a Specific Disk Partition Error Occurs

2010-05-13T02:59:00.000-07:00

The Master Boot Record MBR contains a 32-bit value disk signature that uniquely identifies the disk medium. This is further followed by a 64-bit integer value structure, used to locate the byte offset location of the partition. If the hard disk contains many partitions and they mark the same byte offset location, you might encounter issues when running Windows Setup. To solve this, you will need to repartition the drive and restore data from backup.

You can use Partition Recovery Software while any issues with backup.For instance, you attempt to install Windows Vista on a hard disk partition. You select the target partition on Where do you want to install Windows? page displaying disk configuration and click Next. After you do so, you come across an error message, as below:“Error: uncaught exception: (failed UI_ASSERT)”Windows installation cannot continue and the process halts.The above error occurs due to any of the following reasons:

The mass storage device driver is not working correctly or is corrupted
Hard disk contains multiple partition table entries, all pointing to the same byte offset location

Following solutions can help you recovering from the given problem:

Remove and install the mass storgage device drivers for your disk. Make sure you install them with the latest updates. Run the Setup to try installing Windows Vista

Delete all the hard disk partitions and install Windows Vista. To do so, follow these steps:

Start your computer using Windows Vista installation DVD
Click Next and then Install Now at installation screen
Open the command prompt and run diskpart command
Execute select disk number command, where number refers to the target hard disk
Type clean and exit the tool and the command prompt after you receive the success message
Restart the computer and continue with the Windows installation
Restore the deleted data from backup

In case, you cannot restore from the backup, you need a powerful solution for Partition Recovery. These recovery tools are available to examine, locate and restore lost Windows partitions using advanced technology.

Partition Recovery Software prove highly effective and easy-to-use applications because of their interactive design.Windows Data Recovery is a full-featured Partition Recovery utility to recover lost, missing, deleted, formatted and damaged Windows partitions. It is a safe tool that supports Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. The tools allows for complete data recovery while providing advanced features.

CHKDSK/F Fails to Fix File System Problems

2010-05-11T02:49:00.000-07:00

File system corruption in Windows XP is one of the most common reasons for unbootability of the computer system. The reasons responsible for damage in file system are unexpected system shutdown (due to power outage or human mistakes), virus infection, MFT (Master File Table) damage, and more. An easy way to get past the file corruption issues in a Windows XP system is by executing CHKDSK/F command. This command checks the physical and logical integrity of the file system and repairs it in case of any damage. Although the command is a life-saver in most of the situations, it does not guarantee 100% success in every file system corruption issue.

In such cases, when the CHKDSK command fails to repair, an ideal alternative is to reinstall Windows XP and restore data from an updated backup. However, in case no backup is available, the user can easily recover data using a commercial Partition Recovery application.

Consider a practical scenario to explain the above situation. You encounter the below error message at the startup of Windows XP operating system:

“C:\$MFT is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility.”

After the above boot error message pops up, your system becomes unbootable and its data gets inaccessible. As suggested in the error message, when you run CHKDSK utility, you encounter another error message:

“CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table
(MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.”

As suggested in this error message, when you execute CHKDSK utility with '/F' parameter, it shows the same error message. Since the system could not be started, the data saved in the Windows based hard drive remains inaccessible.

Resolution:

Follow the below steps to overcome the CHKDSK/F failure error message:

1. Reinstall Windows XP on your system.
2. Restore the data from an updated backup. In case no backup is available, use a commercial Windows Data Recovery utility. Such Partition Recovery Software use effective recovery techniques to perform complete recovery of all formatted files and folders.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery ensures complete recovery of lost, missing, and formatted data from NTFS and FAT file system based hard drives. The Windows Recovery supports Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems.

STOP Error 0x0000007B Post Replacing Motherboard

2010-05-10T01:45:00.000-07:00

When you decide to replace the motherboard in your computer, you should consider a few aspects or else, your computer may fail to boot at next attempt of starting it. Some such situations might compel you to format the hard disk and restore data from an updated back. In such circumstances if you find it unable to use your backup, the entire data store might get lost. But a Windows Data Recovery utility can help you recover all that data in original format and view.

This article discusses one of those considerable aspects that one should take care of while replacing the motherboard. But before mentioning it, let's first consider a common boot problem that you might encounter with a Microsoft Windows XP computer. Consider a case wherein you replace your motherboard in a computer, after which you run Windows XP. After you do so, the system might fail to boot giving the below error message on screen:

“STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE”

The error won't let you start the computer while making data inaccessibility an issue.

Explanation

'STOP 0x0000007B' error after replacing motherboard occurs due to chipset mismatch. If one of the chipsets in an IDE controller embedded in motherboard is different from that of original motherboard, your Windows XP-based computer fails to boot with the above error.

User Action

To avoid such issues, make sure that when you replace your motherboard, it has same set of chipsets as the original one has.

• Try to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP. This will work if both old and new IDE controllers detect your hard disk in same size. Continue with the next step if the problem persists.

• Recreate the disk partitions, format the hard disk, and reinstall Windows XP. This solution is applicable when the hard disk size detected by new IDE controller is different from the one detected by old IDE controller.

At times, after recreating disk partitions, you realize that data loss has occurred because of the unavailability or invalidity of data backup. These are the situations when you need a Partition Recovery Software. A Windows Partition Recovery utility can scan your hard disk and restore lost data at a secure location.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a comprehensive tool designed to locate and restore lost data using most powerful scanning algorithms. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000, this Partition Recovery Software provides a range of added options, like disk imaging, disk cloning, SMART status.

Recovering corrupt partition after Error Loading Operating System message

2010-04-27T02:29:00.000-07:00

Partitioning a hard drive refers to the process of segregating the hard disk drive into different logical data areas, also known as partitions. By partitioning a hard disk drive, you can install more than one operating system. You can keep the frequently used data and programs together. Also, it can help keep cache and log files separate from other files as these files can grow really quickly and you need to have separate space for these files. In addition, it helps in having a separate area for the operating system files for virtual memory swapping and paging.

However, any corruption in the system partitions can cause the system to cease functioning. This can happen because of various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, power surges, boot sector corruption, damaged file system, etc. In such cases, you should take appropriate corrective measures. However, if you are unable to resolve the issue, then you should consider using a third-party Partition Recovery software to recover Windows partition.

Consider a scenario wherein you start your Windows system, and it fails to boot. An error message is displayed, that is:

“Error loading operating system”

Cause:

There could be the following reasons for the aforementioned error message:

• The BIOS is not supporting the settings of the hard disk drive.

• The computer hard drive is not properly setup in CMOS.

• The drive partition is corrupt and, hence, inaccessible.

Resolution:

Following methods should be used to resolve the issue and access the Windows system again:

• If the error message appears because of the first issue, you should update the BIOS settings of the computer motherboard.

• If the error message appears because of the second issue, you should ensure that the hard drive has been setup properly in the CMOS setup. Also ensure that the hard drive is detected.

• If the partition is corrupt, you should delete and recreate all the partitions and only then run Windows XP setup.

To get back your valuable data after deleting the partitions, you should use a third-party partition recovery tool to recover partition. Such read-only tools are able to recover all the data without overwriting the original data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a Windows partition recovery tool that helps you in partition recovery from FAT and NTFS file systems. The software has various advanced features including resume recovery, masking, disk imaging and cloning etc., that facilitate efficient data recovery from the corrupt partition. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

Incomplete Backup Creating Issues due to FTDisk

2010-04-26T03:31:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 supports improved LDM code. It outperforms several I/O features of earlier Windows versions. But due to these changes, the backward compatibility with Windows NT fault-tolerant disk has been removed. Windows Server 2003 no longer supports FTDisks. So, if you upgrade to Windows Server 2003, it is suggested to break the mirror of FTDisk sets before upgrading. Avoiding this might compel you to delete them after upgrade.

In such cases, if a valid and complete backup is not available, you might run into data loss issues. To resolve them, you should use a powerful Windows Partition Recovery solution to locate and restore them.To illustrate, consider you use a Windows Server 2003 based computer system. You attempt to perform full system backup using NTBackup.exe tool for ASR (Automated System Recovery), but fail to do so as you receive the below error message:

“The files for the recovery diskette could not be created. The operation was aborted.”

You cannot create the backup after you receive this error. The prime reason for this error to occur while creating backup is that computer contains legacy FTDisk sets of Windows NT 4.0. To solve the issue, described above, you should follow the below sequence of steps:

Install Windows Support tools from Windows installation media located in Support/Tools folder

Use Support.cab file to extract Ftonline tool

Backup the data from FTDisk sets

Delete the FTDisk sets

Recreate the volumes as dynamic volume

Restore data from the backup

In any case of backup issues, you are suggested to use Partition Recovery Software products. These are suitable applications, built exclusively to regain lost data from Windows based disks. Windows Partition Recovery utilities employ powerful scanning algorithms that prove effective to recover lost, formatted, damaged and corrupted partitions.

Built with graphically rich user interface, these tools are quite easy to use and implement. Such software provide you additional features to restore the data at a safe location. Windows Data Recovery is a professional and reliable Partition recovery tool with advanced options and features. It is a safe Windows Data Recovery tool that supports Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. The tool provides you advanced features like Append Header, RAW File Recovery, Save Scan and more.

Fixing Few Common Partition Table Corruption Errors

2010-04-21T03:12:00.000-07:00

A Windows-based hard drive is mainly divided into two or more partitions. The exact size and location for each partition is saved in a database named 'Partition Table'. This table is saved in the first sector of a hard drive and is 64 bytes long. Corruption in this table can occur due to improper system shutdown, virus infection, and operating system malfunction. In most partition table corruption events, a Windows user confronts an error message that does not permits the system to boot the system.

This further results in inaccessibility of all the hard drive partitions and data stored within them. To master such error messages and access all the partitions, it is best to restore them from an up-to-date backup. However, if the user has not maintained any backup, or the backup fails to meet your expectations, then you will need to choose a third-party Partition Recovery utility to recover your partitions.

To elaborate the above scenario, consider a practical case, wherein you encounter any of the below error messages while trying to boot your Windows-based system:

“Not found any Active Partition in hard drive.”
Or
“DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.”
Or
“Invalid partition table.”
Or
“Missing operating system.”
Or
“Boot infection or Boot virus.”
Or
“Invalid media type reading drive.”

After any of the above error message appears, the system becomes unbootable and subsequently the hard drive data also becomes inaccessible.

Cause:

The root cause for the occurrence of the above error message is corruption in partition table.

Resolution:

To conclude all the above error messages and to access the data saved in the partitions, follow the steps mentioned below:

• Execute 'Startup Repair' option to resolve startup issues.
• Use 'Last Known Good Configuration' option to boot your system.

In case, both the above options fail to solve the above error messages and the partitions remain inaccessible, then you will need to reinstall the operating system and recreate new partitions. However, while doing so all the previously saved data in the partitions becomes inaccessible. To recover all those partitions and their data, you will need to use a commercial Partition Recovery application. A Partition Recovery Software uses efficient recovery mechanisms to recover lost, deleted, and formatted hard drive partition.

Dynamic Unreadable Error in In Windows

2010-04-20T00:19:00.000-07:00

In Windows Dynamic disks support limited partition types, which constitue extended partitions, OEM partitions and type 0x42 for dynamic volumes. If the disk MBR or EBR contains another partition type value, it might render the disk to exhibit improper behavior. These errors are also observed when MBR or EBR is corrupted, compelling you to recreate the disk partitions.

If the backup proves inefficient in such cases to restore data, you need to apply Partition Recovery utilities to scan and restore them. For example, when you view the disk in Disk Management snap-in, it might appear as

“Dynamic Unreadable”

When you right-click the disk to change it to basic disk, you receive the below message:

“Data on the this disk will be lost if you convert the disk to Basic, do you wish to continue?”

Clicking 'Yes' to this error doesn't help as you come across an hour glass for some time and the operation fails. If you choose to use Diskpart.exe utility for converting the disk, it gives the success message, but the disk still appears with 'Dynamic Unreadable” status.

Such errors primarily occur because of following reasons:

MBR contains few partition table types
MBR is incorrectly altered
MBR or EBR is damaged. In such cases, MBR or EBR contains the hexadecimal 0x42 as one of the partition's system ID, which refers to dynamic disk

To troubleshoot such issues, you should follow these measures:

Use Dmdiag.exe or Diskmap.exe utility in verbose mode to check for invalid system IDs. Doing so will output the MBR information in hexadecimal format. You can change the invalid partition type value to '0x42'.

If the problem continues, you need to to use Diskpart.exe tool or clean command with Dskprobe.exe to delete all the existing partitions. This allows the disk becoming a basic disk. Restore the data from backup. At times, situations arise when restoring from backup is not feasible. Backup might be absent or invalid.

In these conditions, you are recommended to use Partition Recovery Software. Built with advanced scanning technology, these tools perform safe and comprehensive Partition Recovery. Windows Data Recovery is a reliable and fully-competent utility designed to recover lost and deleted partitions for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems.

It is a non-destructive Partition Recovery Software providing advanced and impressive set of features. The tool supports complete recovery of data for FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system drives.

Missing or Damaged Pci.sys File May Cause Data Loss in Microsoft Windows

2010-04-19T01:36:00.000-07:00

Computer operating system, like Microsoft Windows, uses device drivers to interact with the hardware device. The driver generally interacts with device through communication subsystems or computer bus. Windows uses a number of drivers during its operations. One such critical Windows driver file is Pci.sys. This driver is used by Microsoft Windows to interact with internal data structures, which are required for proper booting and functioning of the operating system.

In case if this driver gets damaged due to any reason, such as virus infection and improper system shutdown, your system may not boot properly and all your valuable data become inaccessible. This behavior leads to significant data loss and requires Windows Partition Recovery to be fixed.

When you attempt to start Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system-based computer, you might come across the below error message:

“File is missing or corrupt: C:\Winnt\System32\Drivers\Pci.sys”

After the above error, boot process gets terminated and you cannot access your system further. This behavior causes severe data loss. At this point of time, you must identify what the problem is and perform Windows Recovery by resolving the same.

Cause

As stated in the above error message, this problem occurs if Pci.sys file is either corrupted or missing. The corruption may occur due to a number of reasons, such as virus infection, operating system malfunction, unexpected system shutdown, file system corruption, and more.

Resolution

Try out any of the below methods to sort out this issue:

• Restore the Pci.sys file using Microsoft Windows Recovery Console. Expand the Pci.sy_ from I386 directory on Windows boot CD to \%SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers directory on hard drive.

• Replace the damaged or missing files using in-place upgrade. It is the last resort before formatting the hard drive and reinstalling operating system.

• If none of the above methods work, you have to format your Windows hard drive and reinstall the operating system. You should follow this process only as a last resort, because it removes all your valuable data from hard drive and causes severe data loss.

In such critical situations, you need to opt for Partition Recovery Software to get your mission-critical data recovered. The applications are powerful enough to thoroughly scan entire Windows hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They Recover Windows data in a pretty safe and easy way.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recovers lost Windows data from hard drive, USB drive, memory card, CD, DVD, and other storage media. It works well with MS Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. The software supports recovery from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

Incorrect Parameter Error in Windows Partition

2010-04-17T01:49:00.000-07:00

In Windows Hard disk consists of partitions which are defined by a Partition Table, which is located in MBR (Master Boot Record). The table is examined for partition table entries to determine if the corresponding partition contains a valid file system that can be accessed or mounted for read/write operations. There are several ailments that can corrupt the partition table, thereby resulting into inaccessible or unusable partitions. Consequently, all the data stored in these partitions remain no longer accessible to the user.

Thus, you are suggested to always maintain an updated copy of your important data to prevent the outcomes of partition table corruption. However, if you find the backup incompetent or unavailable to restore data, Partition Recovery utilities can help you to recover it.

For instance, you might receive the below error message when trying to access a Windows hard disk partition:

“drive_name is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect”

Where, drive_name is the name of drive, you are attempting to access, for example, D:\, H:\ etc.

This error could prominently occur due to one of the following reasons:

Partition is infected from bad sectors or disk errors

Partition table is partially or completely corrupted. This could occur after you install or reinstall Windows, when Disk Administrator performs faulty calculations to write signature for logical drives in an extended partition

Geeks suggest if you can try these methods to solve the existing issue:

Open the command prompt and run chkdsk /F /R /X drive_name to isolate disk errors and bad sectors problems. You should replace drive_name with the name of partition, you are facing issues with

If the above method doesn't help, repartition and reformat the entire disk to recreate the partition table information. Restore lost data from recent backup available. At times, backup proves insufficient or invalid to give the required output. The backup might be absent too.

To deal with such problems, you are recommended to use Partition Recovery Software products that are exclusively built to restore such inaccessible or lost Windows partitions. Basically termed as Windows Partition Recovery software, these utilities bring to the users safe and comprehensive data recovery results. It is an unmatched recovery solution to restore damaged, lost, deleted or formatted disk partitions.

It is a non-destructive Windows Partition Recovery tool with advanced features, such as Disk Cloning, Disk Imaging, S.M.A.R.T features, RAW File Recovery and more. The tool supports Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems.

Could Not Select Partition when Installing Windows 7

2010-04-16T03:00:00.000-07:00

Windows 7 are Microsoft latest releases which remove several bugs and incompatibilities issues that existed in their earlier members. These operating systems are available with major security and performance improvements. But, at times, when you try to install any of them, odds are that you might fail to select or format the target hard disk partition. Among other reasons, one possible cause is hard disk file system corruption.

You might need to remove all the disk partitions, to restore which an updated data backup is required. In case, you cannot restore from backup, you are suggested to use a Partition Recovery Software to recover them. For example, when trying to install Windows Vista or Windows 7, you might encounter the below error message:“Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation”
You may experience this error message with/without any of the these symptoms:

You try to install Windows Vista or Windows 7 on the hard disk, but it is not listed
To install the operating system, the formatting of target partition is required, but you fail to do so
You cannot select the target partition
Attempts of setting the hard disk partition for correct size fail

There can be several reasons for this problem to occur:

Outdated or incompatible mass storage driver or mass storage controller
Hardware issues, like loose data cable
You are trying to install on a dynamic disk
Damaged file system
Incompatible hard disk partition is being tried to select, for example FAT32 that is incompatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7

Following solutions can help you recovering from the existing issue:

Update the hard disk controller drivers when trying to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7. You can select 'Load Driver' option of Setup when trying to perform clean Windows installation. This will provide the correct hard disk controller drivers.

Make sure you have installed all latest firmware and BIOS updates

Check if BIOS correctly detects the hard drive

Run chkdsk to correct the disk for errors

Use Convert.exe command to convert incompatible FAT partition to NTFS file system partition

If all the above measures fail, you should use Diskpart.exe to remove all the existing partitions and data to run the Windows setup again. If you opt for applying last step, you will need to restore data from backup. However, if no valid data backup exists, a powerful Partition Recovery utility will be required. Partition Recovery Software are specific applications designed to perform thorough disk scan in order to locate and restore all the data safely.

Volume Boot Record Gets Corrupted & Partition Recovery Solution

2010-04-15T03:01:00.000-07:00

In Windows a volume boot record or partition boot sector consisted of two major components: Disk Parameter Block or Volume Boot Code. Where the former component contains a data table containing specific volume information, the latter part contains the code required to load Windows. MBR calls it for primary active partition. So, it remains unused for other disk partitions. For a non-partitioned device, VBR serves as the boot sector, similar to MBR for a partitioned device.

A Windows computer might render unbootable if VBR gets corrupted, which calls for a Partition Recovery solution. However, you should first try to solve the issue by using Windows boot disk or restore from backup. For instance, when you try to boot your Windows-based computer,

you might find it unable to boot with some errors suggesting that the media is invalid or you need to format it.VBR or MBR is corrupted, probably due to virus infection or unexpected shutdown. Since VBR is operating system code that loads it, its corruption can lead system to halt.To solve these issues, first compare the disk partition information with the BIOS parameters.

For example, the 'Heads' information in system information should match with 'Ending Head +1' value of MBR and 'Sectors' information should match with 'Sectors Per Track' of MBR. If these values do not match, MBR and/or VBR is corrupted. Follow these steps to solve the problem:

Boot the computer using Windows installation media
Execute fixboot command through command prompt

If these steps work, your system will boot successfully at next attempt. But if this fails, you should check your backup status to restore the lost data. VBR is created when you perform high-level format of hard disk. So, reformat the volume and restore data. For any reason, if a valid data backup is unavailable, a Windows Partition Recovery utility can help restoring the data.

It is suggested to use these Partition Recovery Software before reformatting the disk. Using high-end scanning algorithms, these tools serve as suitable recovery products for lost, missing, damaged or corrupted partitions.

Windows Data Recovery is a comprehensive recovery utility to provide systematic data recovery for Windows 7 , Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 operating systems. It is a secure Windows Partition Recovery tool with graphically rich user interface and advanced disk recovery options. The tool is compatible with FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

Resolving NTFS Compaction Error in Windows

2010-04-14T00:41:00.001-07:00

In Windows 2000 and later operating systems NTFS files and folders can be compressed using compact.exe command-line utility. It can also be accomplished by using the system drive option for compressing the drive in its properties section from My Computer. This saves your disk space. But for the reasons like inappropriate cluster size of the NTFS partition, you might fail to compress the drive. You cannot use the corresponding option or execute command-line compact utility. The solution requires you to reformat the disk using correct cluster size and restore data from backup.

However if due to any reason, you find data backup inconsistent or incomplete to restore, you need to use a Partition Recovery utility.

For example, the following error illustrates an error that you might encounter when trying to compact a G :\ drive:

Compressing files in G:\

Apps [ERR]
Apps: The file system does not support compression.

0 files within 1 directories were compressed.
0 total bytes of data are stored in 0 bytes.
The compression ratio is 1.0 to 1.

The error is encountered using Compact.exe command. The explorer option is unavailable in such situations. The error occurs while following set of situations:

The partition size is large

The partition has been formatted using cluster size of more than 4,096 bytes in value. Compression fails as it doesn't support allocation units of more than 4k bytes

You should try the following sequence of steps to solve the issue:

Run CHKDSK to determine the allocation unit size
If the cluster size comes out to be more than 4k, you need to reformat the drive for less value. For this, you can use Windows Explorer, FORMAT command-line utility or Disk Administrator to format and specify the cluster size
Restore data from backup and try to compact the volume

A data backup might exist in invalid or corrupted state, which eventually prevents data from restoring. To deal with such problems, it is recommended to use an efficient Partition Recovery Software. A Data Recovery utility proves to be suitable recovery application while maintaining data integrity.

Windows Partition Recovery is a fully-fledged and reliable recovery software to provide complete recovery of lost data. It is compatible with Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 operating systems. It is an advanced application providing features like Disk Cloning, Disk Imaging, Drive Status and RAW File Recovery.

Missing NTBOOTDD.SYS in Windows

2010-04-12T02:55:00.000-07:00

In Windows OS system with SCSI drive being used as the boot drive and no SCSI adapter BIOS enabled, NTLDR will access NTBOOTDD.SYS file for initial boot to communicate with the controller. The file is basically a SCSI miniport device driver that system renames to Ntbootdd.sys and places in root system folder.

Windows uses it when Boot.ini file contains SCSI() or SIGNATURE(). You computer becomes unbootable when no or incorrect NTBOOTDD.SYS file exists, while preventing you from accessing the data stored on SCSI drive.

The solution requires you to boot the system from boot disk or rename the faulty file. However if the data remains inaccessible while no valid data backup is available, apply and use an effective Partition Recovery Software.For instance, you might receive the below error message when trying to boot from a SCSI drive installed in a Windows XP based computer:

Windows XP could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows XP (TM) documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information. Boot Failed.The boot process fails without allowing any access to stored data.

NTBOOTDD.SYS file is missing or incorrect.

Note: The error can also occur if an incorrect SCSI driver is selected.

Below are some of the basic solutions which can help you in recovering missing files.

Use Windows XP bootable disk or installation media, if available, to boot the computer

Replace or copy the Ntbootdd.sys file from the root of the boot or installation disk to the root system folder of your computer.

Try to duplicate the behavior by restarting the system from your boot SCSI drive. If the problem remains the same, try other troubleshooting steps, like formatting and reinstalling the operating system.

To recover inaccessible or lost data, consider your last good backup to restore. For any reason, if it is not available, you need a Data Recovery utility. A Data Recovery Software proves as a valid tool to scan, locate and restore missing data from a logically crashed drive.

While providing safe Partition Recovery, such tools are easy to implement with graphically rich user interface.Windows Data Recovery is an advanced utility to provide systematic recovery of lost data for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. It is a non-destructive Data Recovery tool with rich graphical interface and powerful disk and recovery features. The application is compatible with FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

Program File Got Damaged in Windows

2010-04-08T00:23:00.000-07:00

Windows is completely comprising of program files that are critical components vital for running the computer. Kernel DLLs, data files, helper processes and configuration files should remain intact or else can create issues while starting your computer. However, to fix such problems, you require performing an in-place upgrade of your Windows installation.

If it fails, consider reinstalling the operating system and data backup to restore data thereafter. But in case, you cannot access a valid backup, you should use a Partition Recovery Software to safely locate and restore lost data. To illustrate such situations, consider you use a Windows XP (Professional or Home Edition) or Windows 2000 (Professional Edition). When trying to start your computer, you might come across an error message as below:

“Windows could not start because of an error in the software”

A Windows XP or Windows 2000 based computer exhibits such behavior if its program files are either damaged or missing. To solve such issues, you need to follow these steps:

Insert Windows installation CD-ROM into the drive and boot your computer by pressing any key to start with

Press Enter to setup Windows

Press F8 to accept the license agreement

It should now detect your current installation. If it is, press R to repair it

Follow the steps as prompted to perform in-place Windows upgrade

Odds are that Windows setup might fail to detect your previous installation. Such behavior means you cannot perform Windows repair. In such cases, you should perform clean reinstall of Windows using Windows installation CD-ROM. Since the process deletes all the existing files and folders, you need to check the last backup status to restore data from.In case, no suitable backup is available, apply and use Data Recovery utilities.

Partition Recovery Software are safe technology-driven products with user-friendly interface allowing easy recovery of lost and deleted data. Such tools bring you secure Partition Recovery procedures that too with comprehensive results.

Windows Data Recovery is a reliable and full-fledged recovery utility designed for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. It is a non-destructive Data Recovery application providing advanced and impressive set of features. The tool supports complete Partition Recovery of data for FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system drives.

Running Uninstal.exe Program Causes Windows Error

2010-03-29T02:02:00.000-07:00

In Windows Uninstal.exe is a Windows uninstall program which executes when an uninstall has been initialized. In some specific set of conditions, the process might replace FAT32 MBR, thereby resulting into inaccessible primary partition (usually C:) of system. Such situations require performing steps like recreating the primary partition and reinstalling Windows.

When you try to restore the lost information, you should use your recent data backup available or scan your affected hard drive by using powerful Data Recovery applications. Consider an instance, you try to run Uninstal.exe in real mode, but instead of expected behavior, you encounter an error message describing that Winundo.dat is missing or damaged. The error further gives you an option to continue. Clicking either of the options (Yes or No) gives you the below error message:“Invalid system disk”

The above behavior is exhibited when the following set of conditions is true:

You have converted your primary drive to FAT32 file system using Drive Converter utility
You have run Uninstal.exe from Windows startup disk or restored it manually
You have run Uninstal.exe in real mode
You have installed Windows
You have used a third-party disk partitioning utility
You have run Uninstal.exe

In the former case, running Uninstal.exe replaces FAT32 MBR with backup of FAT16 MBR and you observe the above error messages. However, in the latter scenario, the issue is observed if partitioning utility affects the partitioning structure of the disk.

To resolve such issues, you need to perform these steps in order:

Recreate you primary drive using utilities like Fdisk.exe
Reformat the primary drive
Reinstall Windows and other applications
Restore data from backup

In this case you cannot restore from the present data backup. It might occur if backup is damaged or not updated completely. Thus, to cope up with such situations, you should use Partition Recovery Software. These are advanced Data Recovery tools built with indigenous technology to safely recover the lost information from logically crashed drives.

Such tools provide you interactive user interface, powerful recovery features and several other added characteristics. Windows Partition Recovery Software is a premier application to recover and restore lost data that supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

Common Issue with Windows Vista is Hanging at Black Screen

2010-03-24T00:25:00.000-07:00

In Windows Vista there is a unique component that allows you to perform different file operations on NTFS file system volume in the form of transactions which is commonly called TxF or Transactional NTFS. Thus, using Transactional NTFS, you can atomically create, modify, delete and rename files and folders. Additionally, Transactional NTFS ensures that all the operations performed are correct and will be committed only if all operations complete successfully.

While the TxF process is running, no other process should interrupt it or else will cause a deadlock condition. Such conditions usually occur due to file system corruption issues and to solve them, you will need to reinstall the operating system. You should use your backup to restore the lost data. However, in case of any backup issues, Windows Partition Recovery Software can be used for complete data restoration.

When you try to start your Windows-Vista based system, it doesn't boot and hangs displaying a black screen. Attempting to restore the system using WinRE (Windows Recovery Environment) doesn't help as it also stops respondingYou fail to start the system in Safe Mode. The system is unresponsive even if you use Windows Vista installation disc to try repairing the systemA Windows Vista system exhibits the above behavior if a deadlock condition occurs between Windows Vista Autocheck and TxF (Transactional NTFS) processes. It primarily occurs if file system gets corrupted within $TxF directory.

To resolve this issue, you need to perform clean re-installation of Windows Vista. You can also opt for performing parallel installation of system. The former method causes complete data loss. So, use your latest data backup and restore the entire information. Sometimes, the data backup cannot restore the required information as it damaged or incomplete. To cope up with such situations, you require using Data Recovery tools.

These utilities use safe scanning algorithms to scan the logically crashed media and recover all the data, unless it has been overwritten. Partition Recovery Software are built with superior technology to provide graphically rich user interface, complete results, secure scanning.

Windows Vista has Encounters an Error 0x0000C1F5?

2010-03-23T00:12:00.000-07:00

In Windows Vista sometimes we come across such conditions that force it to compromise with safe system operation, it stops running and displays BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) with some error messages. It primarily occurs due to critical system file corruption, hardware faults, file system corruption and other similar reasons. To solve such problems, you might need to reinstall Windows or reformat the hard disk. So, restoring from data backup becomes a requisite.

But if it is not feasible to restore complete information from backup, you can use Partition Recovery applications. When you start a Windows Vista based system, it doesn’t boot up and displays Stop error 0x0000C1F5 on screen with some parameters. Attempting to start it in safe mode doesn’t help as it stops at loading the following file:
\Windows\System32\drivers\CRCDISK.SYS
Using Windows installation disc to boot the system also gives the same error message.

CRCDISK.SYS is identified as the Disk Block Verification Filter Driver. The file performs CRC check on all the data that is read off the disk.

The above symptoms are observed when one or more of the below situations are true:

Faulty hardware components like bad RAM or damaged wireless card etc.
One or more Windows system files are corrupted
File system is damaged

You need to follow these steps to troubleshoot such problems:

Run hardware diagnostic to determine the faulty hardware component. Try disabling, removing or replacing it
Boot the system using Windows Vista installation disc and try to repair Windows through Startup Repair option
Run chkdsk to check and correct hard disk errors
If applying above measures do not help, reformat and reinstall Windows. Restore lost data from recent data backup available

At times, you cannot restore from the backup available as it is corrupted or not updated. Thus, you will need to use Partition Recovery software that serve as advanced applications to scan and restore lost data from logically crashed drives. Embedded with powerful recovery features, safe recovery procedures and exceptionally interactive user interface, the software serve as comprehensive products for recovering lost data.

Deleted FAT32 & NTFS Volume Recovery

2010-03-22T02:59:00.000-07:00

Initialization of a disk for dynamic storage is denoted as dynamic disk. Such disks might contain dynamic volumes like striped volumes, spanned volumes, mirrored volumes, simple volumes and RAID-5 volumes. But when you delete any of these volumes (except RAID-5 and dynamic mirrored volume) accidentally using Disk management snap-in, you can recover it and its data unless you haven’t formatted the acquired space.

If you have formatted the disk to FAT32 or NTFS, Windows lets you to recover such deleted volumes by restoring backup boot sector. However, if you have formatted it after deleting the dynamic volume, you should opt to use Partition Recovery applications. NTFS and FAT32 volumes keep a backup copy of their boot sectors.

When you delete a dynamic volume, Disk Management erases the volume’s primary boot sector, located at sector 0 of the volume. It then deletes the corresponding volume entry from its private region database, though the backup boot sector and the original data remains intact.

Thus, you can restore the deleted boot sector from its backup and hence the deleted FAT32 or NTFS dynamic volume. Since FAT16 doesn’t maintain backup boot sector, you cannot recover the volume if deleted. Before performing these steps, make sure that you haven’t created a new volume in its place. However, you need to follow these steps to recover the deleted dynamic volume:

You need to first recreate a volume of exactly same size as of deleted one. Ensure that you don’t format the volume.

Use Dskprobe.exe that allows you to restore backup boot sector. In NTFS, it is located at the end of volume, whereas in FAT32 it is place at sector-6 of volume.

Quit Dskprobe after it rewrites FAT32 or NTFS boot sector

To mount the volume for use, you should click Rescan Disks on Action menu of Disk Management

Experts say that the recovering deleted dynamic volume is applicable only when you haven’t formatted it. If you have recreated a new volume, restoring the backup boot sector will not help. To restore formatted volumes, you should use Partition Recovery Software.

These are commercial Windows Partition Recovery utilities that employ safe scanning algorithms to locate and restore missing information from logically crashed disks. Windows Data Recovery is the most powerful tool that provides complete recovery from FAT32, vFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system drives.

Windows Registry Error or Corruption

2010-03-19T00:18:00.000-07:00

Microsoft Windows has facilitates the users with a Registry which is the database to define all the settings and options available for Microsoft Windows. This database holds information how various hardware, software (operating system and non-operating system) and PC preferences have been set. So, each time you make some changes to File Associations, software, Control Panel Settings and System Policies, Windows Registry gets correspondingly altered.

Sometimes your system might prompt that it has encountered a registry error and hence it cannot continue booting. Such errors indicate that Windows Registry is unable to carry out Input/Output operations while dealing with one or more of its files. You might need to reformat your hard disk in such cases, thereby restore the deleted data from the most recent data backup.

However, the inconsistencies in data backup lead you to use data recovery applications or you may come across any partition table corruption where you need Partition Recovery Tools to safely recover the lost data.

when you try to boot a Windows-based system or perform a registry operation, the screen might display the following error:

“STOP 0x00000051 (parameter 1, parameter 2, parameter 3, parameter 4)
Or
“REGISTRY_ERROR”

Here, parameter 1 and parameter 2 are reserved parameters, parameter 3 denotes the pointer to the hive and parameter 4 denotes the return code of HvCheckHive. Registry errors are generally encountered when registry observed I/O errors while making an attempt to read one of its files. It can occur due to following possible reasons:

Hardware issues
Failure of refresh condition (used by Windows security system)
Limited resource
File system corruption

To troubleshoot registry errors in Windows, you should try following these steps:

Run hardware diagnostics and determine the hardware in question. You should replace the damaged hardware or perform the diagnostic steps

Try restarting the system. This will resolve the refresh condition failure and limited resource like problems

Run chkdsk to correct file system errors. If file system corruption persists, reformat the hard disk and restore from backup. There might be situations when you find that data backup as invalid or absent. To cope up with such scenarios, use need to use a recommended recovery software. Such tools serve as advanced Partition Recovery Software utilities with rich interface and safe recovery techniques.

Partition Recovery Software is a comprehensive recovery tools for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. It is a non-destructive tool with advanced features like Drive Cloning, Disk Imaging, Drive Status etc. These advanced tools supports FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

Removing Boot Partition Access and Partition Loss

2010-03-17T23:13:00.000-07:00

In Windows there is a special group called ‘Everyone Group’ that implies ‘Full Control’ permissions to the users. Sometimes, you might require removing access for this group. But if the target partition is NTFS boot partition, you might run into problems. In critical situations, you will need to reformat the hard disk and restore lost data from backup.

However if no clean backup is available, you should use Partition Recovery applications. As an example, you perform these steps in order Remove access for Everyone group from boot partition that is formatted to NTFS file system. Click Replace Permissions On Subdirectories check box. After this, you observe that you cannot access the partition. You get errors that you cannot access the desktop. This also occurs if you have logged on the system with administrative rights.

In addition, if another user tries to logs in, it fails. This occurs because Everyone group cannot access the partition. Trying to start the Windows-base system, gives the following error on screen:“STOP: c000021A {Fatal System Error}” The above behavior is exhibited because you have removed Everyone group and selected the option to replace the permissions on subdirectories.

This resists all users including administrator to access the partition. To resolve the above behavior, you should carry out these methods:You can set up Windows on another hard disk partition and take the ownership of affected partition after logging into the new installation. You can also use File Manager that allows you to change the permissions. To do so, you will need to log on with administrative rights and open the Task Manager to run a new task.

You can then type ‘winfile’ in Open box and then click the boot drive. You should then access its Security menu to click Permissions and then Grant the Everyone group Change permissions. As a last resort, reformat the boot partition and reinstall Windows. Next, restore lost data from backup. In situations, when you find data backup in invalid state or absent, use Partition Recovery Software.

These tools are read-only recovery tools to locate and restore the missing information. Windows Data Recovery is the optimum Windows Partition Recovery Software which supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000. It is a read-only that is compatible with FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file systems. It provides advanced features like RAW File Recovery, File Filter, Save Scan, Disk Cloning, Disk Imaging and Drive Status etc.

Windows Partition Recovery Software a Powerful Tool

2010-03-17T02:31:00.000-07:00

Microsoft has provided us Windows operating system which is most user friendly and efficient operating systems with rich graphical user interfaces. Starting from the basic version Windows to the upcoming version Windows 7, Microsoft has introduced several features that make the current version dominant over its previous counterpart. With the release of each new version, Microsoft makes the operating system more reliable, secure and manageable.

The following enhancements, available in the form of service packs and hotfixes, serve as their add-ons. But data loss is not an exception in any of the Windows version. Your Windows-based system might suffer critical data loss, while you have no valid data backup or sometimes a partition table corruption may occur. To cope with such situations, you can use commercial Partition Recovery tools for Windows that employ powerful scanning procedures to recover lost data. Windows supports two basic file systems: FAT and NTFS.

This implies that each of your Windows-based hard disk is formatted to either of FAT (FAT16, FAT32 or VFAT) or NTFS (NTFS or NTFS5) variants. You might experience Windows data loss in any of the below conditions:

Reformatting the hard disk
FAT or NTFS based partition/volume corruption, formatting or deletion
Using Shift+Delete for a file that deletes a file permanently
Emptying the Recycle Bin
Reinstalling, repairing or upgrading Windows
Corruption of critical structure like MBR, MFT (in case of NTFS file system), boot sector or FAT table
Windows registry corruption

According to windows Greeks a hard drive retains the data until you actually overwrite it. After you delete the data, it’s corresponding file system entry that gets deleted and not the actual information. Windows Partition Recovery Software use algorithms to locate such missing information for which file system entry has been deleted and hence recover the lost data.

In addition, these Data Recovery applications offer you intuitive interface to work with. Also, you can use such utilities in any case when you suffer logical data loss in Windows.

Windows System Files are Corrupted Prevents the System from Booting

2010-03-15T00:40:00.000-07:00

With the latest version in Microsoft Windows family called Windows Vista which is considered to be a reliable, high-performance, easy to deploy, manageable and secure operating system, provided by Microsoft. The operating system includes various advanced features that could detect impending hardware and software issues and protect it against different external threats.

But similar to its other counterparts, system crash is not an exception in Windows Vista. You might encounter several issues that might prevent it from booting. As a result, you might need to reformat the hard disk and restore lost data from backup. But sometimes, you cannot restore from your backup as it exists in invalid state.

Such situations necessitate the use of Partition Recovery applications that can restore your lost data back. As an example, when you try to boot your Windows Vista based system, it repeatedly runs chkdsk. After this, when you opt for fixing startup mode, you are prompted to restore to original factory settings

Restoring Windows Vista to factory settings deletes all the data that is stored on hard disk. However, you can continue with the process with administrative rights. The above behavior occurs if one or more Windows system files are corrupted or damaged. This might prevent the system from booting. To solve the above behavior, you need Windows Vista installation disk.

Windows Vista includes a utility called System File Checker (sfc.exe) that allows you to scan and repair Windows system files corruption. To solve the issue, follow these methods:Boot the affected system using Windows Vista installation disk and press a key to continue. You will get an option to install the operating system. In the next window, select the repair option to make system repairs.

If this doesn’t help, reboot the system and press F8 to access Advanced Boot Menu options. Next, you need to select safemode with Command Prompt. You should then run sfc/scannow through command prompt. If the problem continues, you can restore the system to factory settings or reformat the hard disk and restore the lost data using your recent backup.

In case of backup unavailability or damage, you should use commercial recovery applications. These are special purpose Data Recovery tools that can scan, locate and restore the missing information in all cases of logical data loss.

Windows Partition Recovery is an advanced recovery application for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. It is a high-end Data Recovery Software built with safe technology to recover lost data. It supports FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

After Converting FAT32 to NTFS System Prompts Errors and Fails to Boot

2010-03-11T22:48:00.000-08:00

Windows XP contributes two types of file systems FAT and NTFS. These file systems includes a utility called convert.exe that allows you to convert a FAT formatted hard disk to NTFS. To convert your hard drive formatted to FAT32 file system to NTFS file system, you need to use convert drive: /fs:ntfs (drive denotes the name of drive to be converted) command using command prompt.

It is a non-destructive process, but at times you find that after using the command, system prompts errors and fails to boot. You encounter an error that NTFS driver file, Ntfs.sys is corrupted and Windows could not start as the result. Therefore, to correct the situation you might need to reformat the hard disk and restore lost data from backup.

But in critical circumstances when backup fails to restore, use Partition Recovery applications that serve as perfect tools to recover lost data. After converting your FAT32 hard disk to NTFS, when you try to start your system, you might receive the below error message:

“following file is missing or corrupt: System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys”

The above error occurs after you use convert.exe tool to convert the file system. The prime reason for this error to occur is that either Ntfs.sys file is missing or corrupted.
You can solve this problem by repairing Windows XP installation using these steps through Recovery Console:

Boot your system using Windows XP startup or installation disk
When prompted for, Press R when you see the ‘Welcome to Setup’ screen
Choose the Windows installation to be repaired
Remove the Windows XP disk and quit the Recovery Console

After doing all the changes you are asked to restart your system . If the issue persists or these measures are not feasible to apply, you should reformat the drive and use your recent data backup to restore. However, you can use advanced Partition Recovery Software whenever you face any backup concerns.

Windows Partition Recovery tools are high-end applications to locate and safely restore the missing data. These tools are interactive simple interface and read-only design. It supports Windows 7 , Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. Providing advanced features, it is one of the trusted tools considered for efficient recovery. It supports FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Installation Error

2010-03-11T02:34:00.000-08:00

With the introduction of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 every user wants to upgrade to a new version. This version includes support to various new software and hardware standards, Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol, IPv6 over VPN connections and boot support using EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) on x64 systems. In addition, Windows Vista SP1 supports several advanced features, tend to maximize uptime. You can simply download it and install it on your Windows Vista-based system. But sometimes, you find certain errors while accomplishing this task.

Windows Vista SP1 installation might fail at the final reboot when you expect SP1 to be successfully installed. You finally loose the accessibility to data and to restore the missing information, you need to use your recent data backup. In any case of backup concerns, use Partition Recovery Software applications to completely restore lost data and partition table.

While attempting to install Windows Vista Service Pack SP1, the final boot process might fail. After this when you boot the system, it doesn’t start as expected and gives an error message that system has a corrupt driver file (ataport.sys or stapi.sys). The error also suggests booting the system from Vista installation disc and repairing the system.

In addition, when you try to use System Recovery options to correct the existing issue, system automatically revert the service pack installation and any attempt to reinstall Service Pack 1 fails with the same error message. You might also receive similar error message:“!! 0xc0000005 !! 1588/68562 (Dfrgntfs.exe)”

Resolution
Boot your system using Windows Vista installation disc
Click Repair your Computer option after specifying choices in Language, input method etc.
Opt for the required Windows installation to be repaired
Choose Startup Repair and click Command Prompt
Use cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ command (where C can be replaced with your system drive) and copy all driver files to a folder using command such as

copy acpi.sys acpi.sys.backup
or
ren acpi.sys acpi.sys.backup

Copy all these driver files from similar path but from drive x (Installation disc drive) and use them to replace damaged driver files. Restart the system. If these measures fail or are unfeasible, reinstall Windows Vista. Restore lost data from backup. But if no backup is present or is currently in invalid state, scan the affected drive using Partition Recovery Software. These are commercial Data Recovery tools designed to perform safe, easy and complete recovery of lost data.

Windows Boot Manager Deleted or Missing

2010-03-09T02:28:00.000-08:00

In Windows Vista Windows Boot Manager performs the functions same as NTLDR performs in earlier Windows operating systems. It reads information from Boot Configuration Data (BCD) and displays a menu, from which you can select a required operating system. However, if system finds the file missing, it doesn’t allow you to boot into the system and you lose access to stored data.

Thus, to restore the stored information, you should use your recent data backup. If you face any backup concerns, Data Recovery applications are available that can restore lost data.As a practical example, you might receive the below error message while trying to
boot your Windows Vista based system:

“BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.”

Probable causes of the above BOOTMGR file error are:

You have deleted the BOOTMGR file
BOOTMGR file is corrupted due to virus like issues

To correct BOOTMGR is missing error, you should follow these steps:

Boot your system using Windows Vista installation media
Select the preferred language, time and other options at ‘Install Windows’ window
Choose ‘Repair your computer’ option on the next screen
Opt for required Windows installation to be repaired
Select ‘Startup Repair’ from ‘System Recovery’ options
After the process is completed, remove the Windows installation disk and boot the system
Check if you can successfully boot into the system without any BOOTMGR is missing error

If problem persists, repeat the above steps while choosing ‘System Restore’ option
Boot the system, if you still get the same error message or the above measures are not feasible, reinstall Windows Vista. After reinstalling Windows, restore your lost data using your recent data backup.

If data backup is damaged, not updated or absent, scan your hard drive using Partition Recovery applications. These tools are specially designed tools that use advanced scanning algorithms to examine the logically crashed drives and recover lost from them. These applications provide non-destructive design, complete Disk Recovery ability, explained documentation, user-friendly interface and other powerful functionalities.

Windows Data Recovery is a premier application to recover and restore lost data. It supports Windows 7 (currently in RC 1), Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000. This non-destructive Partition Recovery Software provides powerful features like Disk Cloning, Disk Imaging, Drive Status, RAW File Recovery etc. It is compatible with FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

File System Corruption due to /3GB Switch

2010-02-22T23:25:00.000-08:00

Windows supports use of /3GB switch that forces an x86-based system to allocate 1 GB of virtual address space to the kernel and executive programs and 3 GB to programs. In other words, this switch is used to change the way 4 GB virtual address space is split up. Usually, when /3GB switch is not used, Windows allocates 2GB of memory to the programs. But if you are using /3GB switch in Boot.ini file, then in critical conditions, you may observe your system’s file system as corrupt.

This leads to data inaccessibility and to restore the lost information, you need to use your recent data backup that should be valid plus updated. However, if data backup is not available, damaged or is not updated enough, make use of Data Recovery applications to restore your lost data completely. As a practical instance, on a Windows XP Professional based system that is configured with several graphic adapters, you use /3GB switch in the Boot.ini file.

In such situation, the memory that is available for kernel services may exhaust. As a result of this, file system might get corrupt and Windows disk services might fail. In addition, you receive an error message, after some time you start Windows:

“Delayed Write Failed”

Or

“Unable to write file file_name”

The above issue occurs if configured graphic adapters use many system PTEs (Page Table Entries). This ultimately results into insufficient memory addresses for Windows kernel and hence, the file system gets corrupt. You are recommended to install the latest service pack of Windows XP or use /USERVA=2944 Boot.ini option in order to reduce the available user memory address space. To correct file system corruption issues, follow these methods:

Run CHKDSK on your hard disk
If problem persists, reformat the hard disk to recreate the file system and restore from recent data backup.

In case of backup unavailability or any issues, scan your hard disk using commercial Partition Recovery Software. These applications prove valid and safe recovery tools, being equipped with powerful scanning algorithms, read-only design, advanced Data Recovery features and self-descriptive interface.

Windows Data Recovery is a robust tool that recovers and restores lost data. It natively supports Windows 7 (currently in RC 1), Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000. This read-only Windows Partition Recovery Software provides additional features Disk Cloning, Disk Imaging, Drive Status etc. It supports recovery for FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

FAT32 Backup Boot Sector Is not Working Even Chkdsk Fails

2010-02-21T23:29:00.000-08:00

In Windows Boot sector is the very first sector of a partition that conveys the required boot information to the system. FAT32 maintains the backup copy of the boot sector, usually at sector 6. Chkdsk can use this backup boot sector if you allow it to run while FAT32 volume corruption. But sometimes, the process fails and Chkdsk doesn’t make any repairs for corrupted volumes.

Thus, to restore lost information, you require using your recent data backup that should be valid and updated enough to give required data. However, if you face any issues with your backup, use Data Recovery applications as the solution to recover data. As a practical example, when you observe a FAT32 volume as corrupted or inaccessible, you try to run Chkdsk to repair it. Chkdsk reports file system as FAT32 or RAW and it doesn’t make any repairs and quits unexpectedly. You receive the similar message:
“The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume Serial Number is C408-2213”

Subsequently, when you run Chkdsk without using any command-line switches, it again fails to repair corruption with an additional error message that it cannot continue in read-only mode. By design, Chkdsk doesn’t use backup boot sector to repair the damaged volume, unless it gets an I/O error message while accessing the volume. It happens if primary boot sector is physically located in a bad sector. Since the primary boot sector is corrupted or has invalid information,

Chkdsk doesn’t try to use the backup boot sector and fails to repair volume corruption. To repair the damaged volume when Chkdsk is failing to do so, you need to follow any of these methods:

Run Dskprobe.exe tool that could copy the backup boot sector and replace it over the damaged primary boot sector.

If the above measure fails or backup boot sector appears to be corrupted, reformat the damaged volume and restore from last backup. But if backup is damaged, not updated, or absent, scan your drive using Partition Recovery. Such applications make safe Data Recovery using powerful and advanced scanning algorithms.

Partition Recovery Software offer graphically rich interface together with quality recovery options. Windows Partition Recovery is a secure tool to recover lost data from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 volumes/partitions. It is a read-only Software with exceptional features like Disk Imaging, Drive Cloning, Drive Status, RAW File Recovery etc. It is compatible with Windows 7 (currently in RC1), Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

Dual-Boot Configuration Fails in Windows

2010-02-19T01:54:00.000-08:00

Microsoft Windows XP newly launched supports multiple-booting or dual booting with operating systems . The user can install any of these operating systems with Windows XP and choose between them to use whenever you start your computer. At times, you observe that Windows XP fails to start in dual-boot configuration due to errors in one or more boot data structures.

As a result of this, you can’t access the stored data and hence, to restore the lost information, you require using your recent data backup. However, if data backup exists in invalid state, is not updated, or unavailable, you need to use any Partition Recovery applications which serve as the complete recovery tools for lost data and partition. If you are using a system that is configured to dual boot between Windows XP and an earlier operating system (Windows NT 4.0). You start Windows XP and it fails with various problamatic errors like

Windows XP could not start because the following files were missing or corrupted:
WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM NTLDR MISSING
You can try to repair this file by starting the Windows Setup program from original floppies or boot from CD-ROM.
Select 'r' at first screen to repair

The earlier operating system falls short to detect the Windows startup features and ultimately replaces NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM boot files that are shared between two operating systems. It usually happens after you reinstall the earlier operating system or install it after Windows XP is installed.

NTLDR is the boot loader file that loads the operating system
NTDEETCT.COM is responsible for examining and creating the list of available hardware

Fix the above issues using these steps:

NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files need to be replaced. So, you should start Recovery Console and use fixboot command to correct boot issues.

If you cannot access Recovery Console, you need to use Windows XP CD-ROM to repair Windows installation by pressing ‘R’ option.

You can alternatively copy replaced boot files (NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM) from I386 folder using Windows XO CD-ROM and paste them to the root folder of boot drive.

If all the above measures fail, you should reformat and reinstall the operating systems. To restore lost information, use your recent data backup. In case of any backup issues, you require scanning your hard drive using Windows Partition Recovery Software that are commercial products to recover lost data and corrupted Partition