Like any other Windows NT operating system, Windows 7 also uses NTFS (New Technology File System) to store and maintain all the files on the hard drive. This file system, although reliable and safe, can be corrupted due to various factors like improper system shutdown, virus attack, operating system malfunction, and human mistakes. In most cases of file system damage, an error message pops up during the booting process, making hard drive data inaccessible. To access the data and to repair the file system, a Windows you need to run CHKDSK utility. However, there are situations where the file system remains corrupted, and you are unable to access the hard drives. If you have an updated backup, you can easily restore the data. But, in case of unavailability of a backup file, you needs to use a commercial
Hard Drive Recovery application.
Consider a real-time scenario where you encounter the below error message at the startup of Windows 7 operating system:
“Action carried out: CHKDISK
Status: Error: File system is damaged.
Start: 5/28/2009 4:31:49 PM
Finish: 5/28/2009 4:34:32 PM
Duration (hh:mm:ss): 00:02:43
Volume data
Serial number: B857-6A99
Device name: \Device\HarddiskVolume1
File system: NTFS
Total space: 232.87 GB (250,048,479,232 bytes)
Free space: 53.25 GB (57,179,824,128 bytes)
Total clusters: 61,046,992
Free clusters: 13,959,918
Sectors / cluster: 8
Bytes / sector: 512...”
The error message halts the booting process of Windows 7 operating system, rendering to inaccessibility of hard drive data. The error message appears when CHKDSK utility fails to repair the file system.
Cause:
The root cause liable for the occurrence of the above booting error message is corruption in file system.
Resolution:
To overcome the above error message, the user needs to reinstall Windows 7 operating system. However, to recover data post re-installation, you will need to use an effective Hard Drive Recovery utility.
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