Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 11:01 PM
A boot sector is an area of hard disk which stores code to locate and invoke the booting programs. These booting programs are stored in some other portion of the disk. This code is generally used for loading operating systems. MBR is the first sector of the active partition of your primary partition. It is the most critical component of a Windows operating system. This is the primary thing that all the virus programs target. These virus programs copy the original MBR to another place. Some of them, overwrite the MBR with their code. If this boot element gets damaged or corrupt, your system will become unbootable and you will lose all the vital data that you saved on your hard disk. To overcome the problem, you need to go file recovery through a reliable third-party utility.
For instance, when you start your Windows XP-based computer, you may come across anyone of the following error messages:
“Non System Disk”
Or
“Disk Error”
Cause:...
Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 2:39 AM
Disk partitioning is often required by users who want to efficiently manage their operating system files, program files, and user data. In addition to increasing the system performance, it allows the users to go for multi-boot setups. But people often confuse on what tool to use and which partitioning scheme to employ. Windows Vista makes disk partitioning easy by incorporating a built-in disk management utility, which allows the users to format drives, create and delete partitions, resize partitions etc. Incorrect partitioning and resizing give rise to several disk-related errors causing partition inaccessibility and subsequent data loss. To overcome the problem and recover the lost data back, you need to go for partition recovery through a reliable third-party utility.
Let's illustrate a practical scenario. Suppose, you are using Windows Vista-based computer. When you try to shrink or resize a partition on your hard disk using Gparted partitioning software, you may receive the following error message:...
Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 11:05 PM
In the Windows systems, the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is the file that acts as a abstraction layer between the hardware components and the software applications. Its main feature is to hide the hardware parts from the kernel so that it can be used on different types of hardware configurations without much difficulty. Hence, when this file is missing or is corrupt then you would not be able to access the system. In these cases, you should try to fix the problem using appropriate corrective measures failing which you would have to resort to using a third-party partition recovery software to recover partitions in the system.
Consider a scenario in which you are trying to start your Windows XP system but unable to do so. The following error message is getting displayed in this case:
“Winnt_root\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt:
Please re-install a copy of the above file.”
Cause:
This error can appear because of the following reasons:...
Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 3:21 AM
Master File Table (or MFT) is a crucial system meta-data file of NTFS file system which stores information, such as file name, permissions, contents etc. of all the files present on the NTFS volume. It is basically a database table which acts like a base or staring point for the whole NTFS volume. Its structure further helps to minimize disk fragmentation and thus, helps in optimizing the performance of the system. MFT records may get corrupt due to several reasons, such as virus attack, operating system problems, any damage caused to the file system etc. If the file system index or MFT is damaged, MBR (Master Boot Record) is unable to locate the files on the NTFS volume required to boot the system. As a consequence, the system becomes unbootable and thus, you may get into a severe data loss situation. To overcome the problem. You need to go for file recovery through a reliable third-party utility.
For instance, when you try to access a file present on the NTFS volume of your Windows 2000-based computer, you may come across the following error message:...
Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 12:04 AM
Sometimes, upgrading of the system to Windows XP results in data loss situations. Like, numerous attempts to start the system remains unsuccessful. Have you ever tried to find out the reason for such behavior. This happens because of corrupt or damaged setup file on hard drive. While upgrade that set up file cannot get overwritten. But with the aid of some appropriate measures, such kind of situations can be easily tackled. For good results, you can choose a third party hard drive data recovery tools.
Using a third party tool for hard drive recovery is a best option when all else methods fail.
Consider a realistic situation. When you make an attempt to upgrade your system to Windows XP. It fails and any of the below listed error message appears on the screen that looks exactly same as given below:
“C0000221 (Bad Image Checksum)”
OR
“STOP: C0000221 - Bad Image Checksum in ModuleName”
OR...
Posted on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 3:17 AM
Windows 7 operating system has brought several significant changes to the earlier versions of Windows. It has made simple for the users to efficiently organize their everyday tasks by making the interface look more attractive and lively this time. Various other features, such as support for virtual hard disks, improved processor performance, kernel improvements have been added to ensure a better reliability and user experience. In spite of all this, people still face data security issues while working with Windows 7. Most data loss cases occur due to unexpected system shutdowns and repetitive STOP errors. In such situations, the computer becomes unresponsive or even refuses to boot start. To overcome all these problems, you need to go for file recovery through a reliable third -party utility.
For instance, when you try to start your Windows 7-based computer, in the very beginning it may prompt with an error message reading:
“STATUS_SYSTEM_PROCESS_TERMINATED”
OR
“STOP: 0xC000021A”...
Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11:25 PM
Many times it happens with many people, when startig the Windows XP based computer with NTFS.sys file system, an error message pops up. The error message reads like:
“Windows could not start because the following file is missing:
\system32\drivers\ntfs.sys”
This is a problem with the NTFS partition of your computer. After you recieve the error message, you are unable to start your system any more, hence unable to access any of your data in the computer. This is a pure case of data loss and may require NTFS
partition recovery software.
Causes:
You recieve the above error message when, you perform any of the following events:
If you have installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
If you have installed Windows XP SP1 rollup after enabling the hyper-threading have or installtion of another processor to your system. This has occured because as Rollup 1 was released prior to Windows XP SP2, and you have installed rollup after the installation of Windows XP SP2. This should not be be done logically...
Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 3:15 AM
Computer users are most frequently struck by several Blue Screen of Death (or BSODs) while working on their PCs running Windows 7 operating system. These are commonly known as STOP errors. The occurrence of these errors results in a sudden unresponsive behavior of the system. A system crash is one of the possible repercussions of such a behavior. Inconsistencies in the Windows operating system may be caused by several things, such as bad drivers, faulty hardware, power outage, improper system shutdown etc. Due to all these factors, the data files stored in the system may become completely inaccessible. To overcome the problem, you need to go for file recovery through a reliable third party tool.
For instance, you may have received the following STOP error message while working with Windows 7 operating system:
“Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area
Stop: 0×00000050 (0xE41B0E15, 0×00000000, 0xBF88CD88, 00000001)”
The above error signifies that the page requested is not found in memory. Let’s have a look at the possible causes...
Posted on Monday, February 14, 2011 at 11:42 PM
Windows 7 registry is a repository which stores the configuration information of all the hardware and software installed on your system. Windows uses the registry file while creating or deleting user profiles, installing new software applications, checking the configuration of installed drivers etc. The system registry is divided into hives, which are predefined sections containing registry keys for specific purposes. Sometimes, users tend to remove a file or delete a program in Windows registry which was associated with another program. Generally, such scenario leads to an error message saying that the registry is corrupt. The other reasons that may cause registry corruption are virus attack, hardware problems, driver errors etc. This could make your system unbootable and you may face a critical data loss situation. In such situations, you should go for file recovery through a reliable third-party utility...
Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 at 3:58 AM
The USN journal (or Update Sequence Number Journal) is a new feature introduced with NTFS v3.0. that is responsible for keeping track of all the changes that occur to the files, streams, and directories present on the NTFS volume. It also records changes in their attributes or security settings. The '$Logfile' is another functionality that is added to the NTFS file system. It is basically an NTFS log file that is used to record any meta changes to the NTFS volume. If these files become corrupt due to any reason or contain some invalid records, it may cause NTFS volume corruption. If the damaged volume is your boot volume, then it may make your system unbootable which would further result in losing all the vital data stored in your system. To recover back your lost data from the corrupt NTFS volume, you need to go for
Windows partition recovery through a reliable third party utility...
Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 10:56 PM
If some important files have been deleted accidentally by you, you find yourself in a major problem. Such situation can be seen anytime and by anyone. Normally, when any file gets deleted by mistake, it signals a huge problem for you. You lose significant data. But don't get upset. There is no need to lose hope. Today, it is easy to recover deleted files even if these files have been deleted permanently from the Recycle bin.
File recovery software have made it possible to recover files. These tools perform file recovery quite well.
One major misconception is that when a file is deleted from your computer, it is gone forever. But, actually this is not true. When a file gets deleted, it is still on your system. When deletion operation is performed on a file, operating system marks the space occupied by the deleted file as free space. Those files become inaccessible for you via the Operating system, but the data of the file remains intact on the drive...
Posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 11:20 PM
Data recovery from your PC's inaccessible or corrupt NTFS partition is possible by following certain steps. You should know these steps to save your precious data from being deleted by logical or physical causes. It would be a blunder if you could retrieve your data by following some simple steps but did not because you were not aware of it. Your Windows computer generally shows some error message which can lead you to the cause of the problem and subsequently, to its resolution. You also have the option of NTFS
partition recovery software if your attempts at getting back your deleted data fail.
Symptom:-
You were hoping to access your file but instead of opening, the following message showed:-
“The directory or file is corrupt or unreadable. Please run Chkdsk utility”
You might get another message accompanying this with the following on it:-
“NTFS partition not accessible”...
Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 11:03 PM
Though there are many other available storage media, including CD, DVD, pen drive, USB drive etc., hard drive of a computer is still the prime storage location of your valuable data. Moreover, many users usually use the external/internal hard drives for the long term storage of important data. Where hard drives facilitate storage of large volumes of important data, at the same time, data loss or inaccessibility from the hard drive due to virus attack, accidental deletion, operating system crash or file system corruption etc., results panic among the users. Under such situations, you can take the help of any
hard drive recovery software to bring back your valuable data.
Though, there can be a number instances, in which your hard drive data can be lost or become inaccessible, underneath are the most common ones:
Accidental formatting of the hard drive.
Corruption/damage to the file system of the hard drive...
Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 2:45 AM
Are you getting STOP error while accessing files from Windows XP operating system-based hard drive after upgrading to Windows XP? Are you unable to access files from hard drive? Well, this behavior may occur due system or operating system related problems. It prevents you from booting your system properly and access files from Windows hard drive. The problem leads to severe file loss situations, if you are unable to fix it and do not have valid backup of files. At this stage,
file recovery is required to extract inaccessible, lost, or missing Windows files.
When you try to boot your Windows XP computer or while installing Windows XP, you may come across the below Stop error:
“Stop: 0x0000000A (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
- ** Address x has base at x – filename”
In the above error, every parameter is a hexadecimal value, which denotes a particular problem:...
Posted on Monday, January 17, 2011 at 3:55 AM
Are you all at sea about what you need to do for getting back your lost data from a corrupt or formatted NTFS drive?
NTFS Data Recovery from PCs whose one or more hard disk partitions are formatted becomes essential if there is vital data that have been lost due to formatting. Also, where the NTFS partition is corrupt or damaged, it often happens that some sort of error message pops up when you are trying to access the files saved in your hard drive. . There are some avoidable causes for this but they are likely to show up from time to time.
Some of the reasons for data loss are partition corruption and resizing, repartitioning of hard drive unsuccessfully, file system damage, hard drive formatting, virus attack, boot sector problems, etc.
NTFS data recovery is not completely out of question for the layman PC user. There are some very useful instructions following which you can recover the data from the formatted or corrupt NTFS computer...
Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 9:41 PM
A hard drive in a computer system is the most basic device for data storage. With the advancements in technology and with the amount of time and work we dedicate on our systems, the storage capacity of the hard drive has increased immensely. Along with that, the hard drive has become more compact making it convenient to carry around. Having said that, at times you are unable to start your computer because of hard drive corruption. Such corruption issues may occur due to various reasons such as corrupt system registry, virus infections, power outages, faulty hardware components, etc. In such cases, there are numerous corrective measures that you can try to recover files. If nothing works out, then you should use a third-party
Partition recovery software to recover all the Windows data.
Let us consider a situation in which you are unable to start your Windows 2000 system. The following error message is displayed in this regard:...
Posted on Wednesday, January 05, 2011 at 12:32 AM
With the increase in popularity of Microsoft Windows operating system, there has been a steep increase in the demands of the customers, and changing times. And the users, love to upgrade their systems from one version to another, to enjoy additional features and interactivity. But it has always been advised to the users of computers that they should backup their partition data frequently, and especially before an upgrade. This acts as an insurance for them, in case the system develops some problems, and their crucial data is at the verge of loss. The backup helps them comprehensively recover partition data, and avert data loss. Otherwise, the user has to opt for a
partition recovery software.
Let use take a practical example to understand this more in detail. After upgrading your Windows system to Microsoft Windows XP, consider, you receive following error message:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:...
Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2010 at 12:34 AM
File system of our computer is meant to store and manage data in the storage media. As all information for accessing the data in the media lies with the file system, any instance of corruption/damage to the file system results in the loss or inaccessibility of the troubled partitions or volumes of the storage media. On the parts of normal users and even sometimes in case of experienced users, corruption of file system leading to the loss or inaccessibility of partitions are very critical to handle. In such cases, any
partition recovery software can be immensely helpful in recovering your valuable data back.
Among many instances of file system corruption, during the open, delete or rename operation of a file using either the file manager or the command prompt, an error message flashes on the screen leading to the complete inaccessibility of data. The error message that one may encounter can be any of the following:...
Posted on Monday, December 27, 2010 at 2:14 AM
Many of us often opt for having dual-boot operating systems. Nothing wrong in that, as it enables you to have a look-in for both types of operating systems. It is very helpful when you want to switch to a new operating system and want to test it before going for the actual switch. However, at times things go awry and you are unable to get access to the earlier version of operating system. This can happen because of various reasons and you should check the actual cause to recover partitions using appropriate methods. If the problem is not solved, then you should use a third-party Windows
partition recovery software to resolve the problem.
Let us assume a practical situation that appears when you have installed Windows Vista on a system that already had Windows XP. Now, after doing this you are unable to start the Windows XP system. An error message is displayed in this situation, which is:...
