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 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 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 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 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 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 Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 2:42 AM
Every day we create many files in our computer, modify them, rename them, transfer them to the USB drive and even delete. However, some files carry extremely important personal, financial or business critical information and we want them to be stored securely. Although we take many measures to store important files safely, still there are instances of file loss and we need efficient
file recovery techniques to recover them back.
The loss of your valuable files can be caused due to any accidental deletion, virus attack, formatting of the media and many such reasons. Listed below are some of the most general ones, which we used to encounter almost every day:
Deletion or corruption of files due Virus/Malware intrusion
Deletion of important files accidentally/intentionally
Crashing of the operating system
Deletion of system files causing inaccessibility of files/folders
Sudden system shut-down causing corruption to the file system of the computer...
Posted on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 11:53 PM
Having installed MS Outlook on my 2007 on my Windows XP based computer, I felt I had securely upgraded my system to a stable, economical and decently upgraded combination. To complete the picture, I had installed Symantec Norton Antivirus to protect my system from virus threat and malware attack. With this combination working for a good 2 months, one fine day, I decided to clean my system of unuseable files, and useless folders. Having worked strenuously for good four hours, I was quite satisfied with my work, and decided to complete the task after a few days again. Little did I realize then that I, in my endeavor to improve performance of my system, have sabotaged it myself. Had I known it, I would have taken a backup to ensure efficient
file recovery.
But tragedies happen when you least expect them , and when you feel you have done something that deserved accolades. Next day, when I tried to access my mail account through Office Outlook, to access some important emails, I found the following message staring at me:...
Posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 10:36 PM
Files are the most important part of the working of a computer system. All the work that is done by a user is done in these files. That is why, loss of one of them could mean a lot of problems for us. But, irrespective of the improvement in technology, it has been impossible to remove all kinds of problems. Faulty hardware, bad sectors on the hard disk, bugs in the software, or in the operating system can jeopardize the working and at times, the accessibility of the file. Not just that, in grim situations, it can also hard delete the file. Yes, it may even delete the file in such a manner that the file is not sent to ‘Recycle Bin’, but removed completely. In such situations,
file recovery is a must, especially if your file is irreplaceable.
Consider, while working on your Windows 2000, you receive an error message:
‘Word cannot complete the save due to a file permission error.’...
Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 at 10:36 PM
System files in Windows 7 or Vista can be corrupted due to various reasons like operating system malfunction, application corruption, improper system shutdown, installing service packs during execution of background defragmentation, and virus attack. In most cases of system file damage, Windows crashes and refuses to start, resulting in inaccessibility of the data saved in the hard drive. To overcome system file corruption, Windows provides an inbuilt repair tool to repair damaged system files. The tool is known as System File Checker tool (SFC.exe). However, there are many situations wherein the system files remain corrupt even after running the above utility. For such situations, the user needs to reinstall Windows operating system and perform restoration from an updated data backup. But, in case of deficient backup, the user can recover formatted files/folders by using a commercial
File Recovery Software...
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Using 'shift+delete' to delete the unwanted files from our system without sending them to the Recycle Bin is one practice that should have got few fans than it actually has. This key combination has put numerous users into jeopardy as they almost always find themselves in a soup once they delete important files as well, thereby disabling all chances of file recovery. However, there is always a way-out and the deleted files can also be recovered. These deleted files can be recovered using a third-party
file recovery software provided no file has been created after the file deletion.
Consider a scenario in which you are working with your team on a project for your client. In this project, you have the responsibility of collating all the important files and compile them so as to make the project presentable. While you were doing so, you tried to remove the unwanted files by pressing the shift-delete keys. During this task, you also deleted few important files as well, which you realized later. Now, you are in a distress as there is no backup of these files as well...
Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 at 11:19 PM
Microsoft Windows Vista is known as the most reliable companion for all Windows trusting users. However technologically advanced this system may be, it is not without its share of problems. Whether it is virus attack, corruption of the file system, operating system bugs, application bugs, incompatible drivers, or bad blocks, the system does get affected by these. Another crucial reason for Windows Vista to not boot is corruption or absence of some of the system files. In case, one or more of them are corrupt or missing, Vista will refuse to boot. Needless to say, all the files stored in the system will become inaccessible, until you opt for
file recovery measures.
Consider, one day after working for many hours on your Windows Vista based computer, you perform proper shut down of the same at night. And when you start it the next day, instead of getting the normal Welcome screen in front of you, you find the following Stop error message flashing on your screen:...
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Loss of valuable data is always painful and the loss has an immediate effect on personal as well as professional life. Many business houses take years to gain their old rhythm and some never can come out of a major data loss. File recovery technology, shines as a silver line in between disaster and rehabilitation of the work flow of the organization.
In the panic moment of data loss, the only soothing fact is that the data is never permanently lost. It is there in your storage device until it is being overwritten by any new data. When we delete a file, it is deleted from the drive index, marking the old file location as free. The initial letters of the filename is being replaced with some symbol to highlight the above fact that this has been deleted and its location is free.
With powerful scanning algorithms, the
file recovery software fetches the storage information about the lost files and locates them in the media. Then, the file recovery techniques incorporated with recovery scripts, internally reverse the process of deletion by changing the drive index and file details...
Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Is your NTFS file system partition missing after you deleted a FAT partition using Fdisk utility? Are you unable to see and access NTFS file system partition on a dual-boot Windows computer? Well, this behavior may occur due to resource conflicts or side-effects of some Windows tools. It renders your Windows hard drive partitions unusable and stored files inaccessible. This behavior of Windows operating system leads to critical file loss situations and requires Windows
file recovery to be fixed, if there is no valid backup in place.
When you boot Microsoft Windows XP computer in dual-boot configuration with Windows 98 or Windows 95, use Fdisk utility for deleting a hard drive partition using FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, and reboot MS Windows XP, when the logical drives are no longer available in Logical Disk Manager in MS Windows XP.
For instance, you may face this behavior when you do any of the below things:...
Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 11:52 PM
Have you accidentally deleted your valuable data from your Microsoft Windows based hard drive? Do you realize the importance of your significant data after you deleted the data permanently from your hard drive? Well, it is a common user mistake, which is a large factor of data loss. In such cases, an absolute backup of your valid and complete backup proves great help. In case, the backup is not updated or available at all,
file recovery is the only way to sort out this behavior.
When you create a file in your computer and you save the file on your hard drive, a file system entry for the particular file is created. The file system index is used by operating system to locate and access files from hard drive. The file system entry of the file contains all file related information, such as name, type, size, and format...
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 3:23 AM
In Microsoft Windows operating system, boot process is handled by various components, such as boot loader and Boot.ini file. The Boot.ini file contains boot configuration settings of Windows operating system. Sometimes, you may not be able to boot your Windows computer if your system use “multi()” syntax in Boot.ini file. The problem also occurs if first sector of boot partition is 4 GB or large. In such situations, you can not access the files stored on your Windows hard drive. This behavior leads to critical file loss situations and requires
file recovery.
You may face any of the below error messages when you face this behavior of Microsoft Windows operating system:
“Boot record signature AA55 not found (25EB found) Windows NT could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows NT documentation about hardware disk...
