Tuesday, July 21, 2009

File Recovery When Windows Operating System Becomes Dead

Operating system (such as Microsoft Windows) is the most critical component of a computer system that provides an interface between user and hardware. It is responsible for managing and coordinating the activities and sharing of resources of a computer. It ensures proper working of all the applications and effective management and accessing of your data. You can not run your computer system without O.S. In some situations, the O.S may get damaged and you can not boot up your system. At this point, all of the files stored on your hard drive become inaccessible file loss situations occur. You need to go for Windows Data Recovery solutions to sort out this issue and get all of your valuable and mission critical files back.

In a practical scenario, when you boot up your system, the process might fail halfway and you come across any of the below given error messages:

  • Error loading operating system
  • Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM
  • ERROR_EA_FILE_CORRUPT The extended attribute file on the mounted file system is corrupt.
  • ERROR_BADDB The configuration registry database is corrupt
  • Missing operating system
  • Operating system not found

All of the above error messages indicate that your Windows operating system is either damaged or missing. This behavior of Windows operating system might occur due to virus infection, file system corruption, improper system shutdown, registry file corruption and system metadata structure corruption. In such situations, it becomes extremely important to carry out Windows Recovery by resolving this issue.

Resolution

In order to work around this issue, you need to format the hard drive and install a fresh copy of Windows O.S. Formatting is capable of resolving most of the disk related issues. But it also has a disadvantage that it removes all of the file stored on your hard drive.

To prevent this situation, you need to go for Windows Partition Recovery Software that provides Boot DVD to recover data from Windows hard drive. These software are quite easy to use and recovers lost, missing and inaccessible files in most of the cases. Using Boot DVD of these software, you can directly boot your system and get into recovery options.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced tool to recover FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. To recover data from unbootable system, Boot DVD of this software is available. This Windows Recovery Software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

Author is doing research on partition recovery related problems and discussed on booting problem. Author suggested to use partition recovery software in case of partition loss or file corruption.

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