Windows XP, one of the most popular operating system, comes in Home edition and Professional edition. Users have the option to choose the edition they want. But, laptops come preloaded with the Windows edition which the computer manufacturers choose to install. However, users can always install another edition of Windows. But what if all the data that had been stored on your hard drive gets lost when you change the edition of your favorite Windows operating system. Well, you will have to opt for Windows Data Recovery using the most updated backup. But if the backup is unavailable, don't worry, you can use partition recovery software.

Consider you buy a new laptop that came pre-installed with Windows XP Home Edition. After a few months, you find it necessary to upgrade the operating system with the retail version of Windows XP professional. After successful upgrade, when you start working on your system, you find that the Start Menu shortcuts are unavailable. What's more, all the files in the Shared Documents folder are missing. Further, the default program templates and setting stored in the Default and All users folder too are not there. And you wonder, what could possibly be wrong?...

Amongst the various versions of Windows, the most used ones are Windows XP and Windows Vista. Despite the fact that Vista was a successor to XP, there are a number of differences that exist between the two. Owing to this, at times, users face a lot of problem. And, in worst situations, they even end up losing their vital data. In such situations, they have no option but to opt for Windows data recovery.

Consider, you have a Windows Vista installed computer, and you use it to partition your hard disk drive. You install XP on another partition. The Setup shows with the text-mode part that the process has successfully been completed. But, on trying to restart the computer, it cannot be done successfully to enter the graphical mode of the setup process, and you find yourself stuck with the following message: 'Error loading operating system'

On trying to use sysprep image of XP professional, you'll find that the system will restart incessantly...

A USB flash drive, popularly known as a pen drive, is a plug-n-play portable storage device that can be very handy. When you plug the flash drive in the USB port, it is detected as a removable drive and a drive letter is assigned to it. The low-power consuming flash drive has become reasonably popular because it is cheap and small. These days the flash drives are available for up to 256 GB, which is, no doubt, a lot of space. However, as they say, nothing is perfect in this world. The flash drives are prone to corruption, at times. This could happen because of various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, power outages, damaged operating system, etc. In such cases, you should consider using a third-party Hard Drive Recovery software for the Hard Drive Data Recovery.

Consider a scenario wherein you have a flash drive that contains about 8 GB of data including important documents, video files, photos, etc. You give it to one of your friends and when you get it back, you insert it in the USB port. The system detects the flash drive but flashes an error message, that is:...

A hard disk partition is a storage space on a hard drive. It is created to organize and manage the hard disk in a better way. In fact, it is common to have multiple partitions on our PCs. The biggest plus of creating partitions is the segregation of the operating system files and program files from the user files. Because of this, the image backups of operating system and other software can be easily managed. Also, you always have a separate area for operating system virtual memory swapping/paging. However, even the hard disk partitions are prone to damage. The partitions can get lost, missed, or damaged due to various reasons such as power fluctuations, virus infections, abrupt system shutdown, damaged operating system, etc. Due to this, the partition can become inaccessible and you will have to use a third-party partition recovery software to recover partition...

On detecting boot failure, Windows Vista and Windows 7 computers automatically fail over and loader generally launches Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) instead of the operating system. This fail over mechanism is dependent on Windows boot loader and Windows boot manager. In some situations, when these metadata structures are also unreadable, Windows RE itself can become inaccessible to the user. Because such situations won't allow you to boot to your computer, they can bring serious data loss in case no suitable data backup is available for Windows Data Recovery.

Before describing the probable causes and solutions of such problems, let's first describe the problem with an associated example. Suppose you use a Windows 7 computer and for some reasons, you cannot boot into your computer. Thus, to resolve the issue, when you try to start Windows Recovery Environment, it doesn't succeed. Unlike your expectations, Windows Boot Manager screen appears and the below error message is displayed at the bottom of the screen:...

In this era of computers, it is essential to keep your confidential data protected from unauthorized access. Privacy of significant data is most important for success of a business. If your confidential information is stolen, it can be used against your organization. In order to avoid such situations, data encryption is used. When a file is encrypted, it is converted into a format that is unreadable by other people. A key is assigned at the time of encryption, which is required to read encrypted file. However, in some situations, you can not restore the encrypted files from backup in case of data loss. This causes data loss and calls for Windows Data Recovery

Microsoft Windows XP operating system enables you to backup your valuable data using NTBackup utility. You can also backup encrypted files using this utility. However, when you try to restore the files that are encrypted using EFS (Encrypting File System) on NTFS file system partition, the encrypted files can't be restored properly. Furthermore, restore process using NTBackup tool reports various errors. Additionally, you see the below event in System Log of Microsoft Windows operating system:...