Do you encounter hardware configuration and boot errors while booting your Windows XP computer? Is your Microsoft Windows XP computer unbootable due to missing or corrupt boot files? This behavior may prevent your system from booting and you can not log on to the system to access files, stored on your Windows hard drive. It renders all your valuable files inaccessible and you come across file loss situations. In order to recover lost Windows files in such situations, File Recovery is required.

As a practical example, you may come across any of the below error messages when you try to boot your Microsoft Windows XP-based computer:

Windows 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 documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information. Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Winnt_root\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe Please re-install a copy of the above file. Winnt_root\System32\Hal.dll missing or corrupt: Please re-install a copy of the above file.

Furthermore:

You may not get any log-in options to Windows Installation when you boot your system to Windows Recovery Console. You encounter “Access Denied” error while trying to access Windows folder. Windows installation is not detected when you attempt to Repair Windows from Windows boot CD and repair process can not complete.

The above behavior of Microsoft Windows XP operating system does not let you access the files from hard drive. In order to get your files back, identify the cause of the problem and perform File Recovery by solving it.

Root of the issue:

This problem can take place if any of the underwritten conditions are true:

Corrupt or missing Ntoskrnl.exe file. Invalid or missing Default value in Boot Loader section of Boot.ini file. Partition path is incorrectly set in Boot.ini file.

You can recover lost files in such situations using professional File Recovery Software. The applications are specifically designed to perform thorough scan of affected Windows hard drive using advanced scanning techniques.

The File Recovery utilities recover all types of lost files including documents, application files, multimedia files, and more. You need not have high-technical skills or prior experience of using these applications as they have simple graphical user interface.

Windows Data Recovery ensures absolute recovery of lost Windows files. The recovery software retrieves files from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. Designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000, it doesn't alter original contents of the files.