Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery

For EFI-based computer systems, the boot loader is IA64ldr and performs the same functions as NTLDR does in x86 or x64 systems. Each operating system on such systems maintains its individual copy of boot loader on EFI partition. Windows component- Ia64ldr.efi loads Hal.dll, system boot drivers, Ntoskrn.exe files to successfully start the boot the process. But, if the file gets corrupted or goes missing somehow, a Windows-based computer loses the ability to boot, while rendering your stored files and folders inaccessible. You can deduce such issues from error messages that display when you try to start the computer. However, to solve these problems, you should try replacing the damaged or missing boot loader file using boot disc. If this fails, use your backup to restore data or opt for a powerful hard drive recovery utility.

For example, you might receive the below error message when trying to start a EFI-based computer systems installed with Windows operating system:

“Couldn’t find loader.

Please insert another disk.”

Such errors imply that your stored files and folders are inaccessible and you cannot boot into the computer.

Cause

Ia64ldr.efi file is either missing or damaged. This file is typically located at \Device\HarddiskVolume1
\EFI\Microsoft\WINNT50\ .

The error might also occur if computer is trying to boot from a non-bootable media.

Solution

Make sure that no external media is inserted when you are trying to start the system. To boot the computer and resolve the issue, you should follow these steps:

If this works, you will be enable to access data. But if it fails, you are suggested to restore data from backup or employ a hard drive recovery software that could access and recover those lost files.

Hard drive recovery utilities are high-end applications, specially designed to scan and recover data while maintaining its integrity. They can be easily implemented because of graphically rich user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a professional and completely reliable data recovery tool with advanced options and features. It is a safe hard drive recovery softwarethat supports Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. The tool provides you features like Append Header, RAW File Recovery, Save Scan and more.

Windows XP SAM (Security Accounts Manager) is a database registry file storing user’s passwords and uses hash format. A Windows XP installed computer might fail to start if the file goes missing or damaged. For solving such problems, use the file backup provided you have backed up the system state or try to copy it using parallel installation. However, if none of the measures works, perform clean Windows XP installation and restore data from backup. In case of valid backup unavailability, a hard drive recovery software can help extracting all your lost files and folders.

For instance, a Windows XP Home or Professional Edition installed computer might prompt the following error when you try to start it:

“Security Accounts Manager initialization failed because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning.
Error Status: 0xc0000001.
Please click OK to shut down this system and reboot into Safe Mode, check event log for more detailed information.

Starting the computer in Windows Safe Mode doesn’t help and prevents you from accessing the stored files.

Cause

Windows XP SAM file is either missing or damaged.

Solution

You cannot use any Recovery Console method as it requires authentication that SAM provides.

Following are the recommended solutions to the given problem:

• If you have backed up system state using Windows Backup utility, use it to restore SAM through Automated System Recovery Wizard or Restore Wizard
• Perform parallel Windows installation and execute the following set of commands using command prompt:
• copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
  delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
  copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
• Replace the SAM file by reinstalling Windows XP. Restore data from backup

At times, backup cannot restore desired set of files. To deal with such situations, windows hard drive recovery utilities are available to prevent rework. Hard drive recovery software are graphically rich applications with suitable recovery features to provide safe, comprehensive and robust data recovery. These tools are specially designed to scan a logically crashed drive to locate missing data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a reliable and fully-competent utility designed to recover lost files for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. It is a non-destructive windows hard drive recovery application providing advanced and impressive set of features. The tool supports complete recovery of data for FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system drives.

NTFS (New Technology File System), which is successor of FAT file system, supports journaling and it is considered more reliable and fast as compared to its predecessor FAT file system. It is an advanced file system that provides unmatched safety, data access power and performance. It is the standard file system is various versions of Windows operating system including Windows Vista, XP and 2003. Like all other computer file systems, NTFS is also made up of several files and objects. Among all, Ntfs.sys is the most important file system NTFS file system. In case if this file gets damaged, you might come across critical data loss situations and require hard drive recovery to be sorted out.

Ntfs.sys is the main driver file of NTFS file system, which is located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers folder. This file allows your system to read and write data from/to Windows hard drive partitions, formatted using NTFS file system. When any problem occurs with this file, you face partition inaccessibility issues and data loss.

In a number of situations, it has been observed that when you boot your Windows based computer that is installed on NTFS formatted hard drive, you might encounter a STOP error with 0×0000000A code in Ntfs.sys file. Such errors usually indicate that the operating system has encounter some obstructions during normal operating system because of any internal reason.

Grounds of the issue

The above stop error is generally reported by NTFS file system when it tries to mount a hard drive partition and fails in the trails. The cause of this problem could be damage to either MFT or boot sector. Corruption might occur due to improper system shutdown, virus infection, user mistakes and other such cases.

Resolution

In order to perform Hard Drive Recovery by resolving this problem, you are required to recognize the problematic partition and then prevent its mounting. When systems boots after disabling partitions, apply particular fix to resolve the problem.

In case if the system does not boot with either of the partition, system can not be accessed and require Hard Drive Recovery Software to be fixed. These applications occupy high-end scanning techniques for in-depth scanning of affected hard drive and retrieve all data from it. These Hard Drive Recovery applications are quite easy and safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix windows hard drive recovery software is the most efficient tool to recover lost data from Windows hard drive. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. Stellar also provides data recovery software for Mac OS X, Linux, UNIX and Novell operating systems.

To prevent accidental file deletion, Windows XP includes a system folder called Recycle Bin that stores all the files and folders after deletion until you empty or delete the file from it. Until you do so, this doesn’t make the file deletion permanent and make the space available for other files. However, to bypass the Recycle Bin, there are two methods: using Shift and Delete key to delete the file and changing the configuration of Recycle Bin. You might need to perform this when you desire to reclaim large disk space or you are sure of deleting the file permanently. But at times, you might run into issues when you bypass the Recycle Bin and delete an important file inadvertently. To restore such file, you will need either to use your backup or a powerful hard drive recovery software.

One-time Bypass

If you desire to delete a file and bypass the Recycle Bin on one-time basis, you need to use combination of SHIFT and DEL key while deleting the file. After this, you receive a confirmation-request message that you should respond in ‘Yes’. The file will be permanently deleted.

Permanent Bypass

Following are the steps to bypass the Recycle Bin on permanent-basis while deleting the file:

• You need to right-click the Recycle Bin icon and then click Properties
• Select ‘Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted’ check box
• Click OK to save the settings

After you do so, you get confirmation-request that doesn’t ask you to send the file to Recycle Bin while deleting. Instead, you get the below request and the file is permanently deleted after you click ‘Yes’ to it:

“Are you sure you want to delete ?”

Accidental File Deletion

If you are bypassing the Recycle Bin, the odds are that you delete the file accidentally. To restore the deleted file, you need to use a current file backup or scan the disk using a safe hard drive recovery utility. Hard drive recovery software are advanced tools designed with high-end technology that allows recovering lost, deleted or missing files from all type of drives.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most trusted and safe hard drive recovery utility designed for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. It provides you advanced features like File Filter, Append Header, File Search and others. The tool is compatible with FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 based drives.

Abbreviated as MTP, Media Transfer Protocol is a protocol that allows connecting portable devices to a Windows based system and synchronizing digital media content (like music files and movie files) between them. To support a device using MTP on a Windows XP based system, it requires the installation of Windows Media Player 10 or higher. At times, you might observe that when you try to move a file from an MTP device to a folder on your Windows XP computer, it is not successfully moved. Additionally, the original file gets deleted from the MTP device, which causes file loss. To restore this file back in original state, you will need to use your backup. However, if no clean backup is available, you should use a third-party Windows Hard drive recovery utility.

To illustrate this, consider that you connect an MTP device to a Windows XP based computer system and create a file on it. After this, you cut the file from the device and try to paste it to a folder created on the computer system. You observe that the file move operation doesn’t complete successfully and the file is deleted from the original location.

Cause

You experience the above issue when the path or name of the target folder is too long. Windows Explorer uses a notification message to be sent to WPD (Windows Portable Device) shell extension. When you connect an MTP device to your Windows XP based computer, a Windows Explorer-like virtual folder displaying device contents is created by WPD shell extension. When you move a file from this virtual folder to the folder on your computer, Windows Explorer handles this task. Since the folder path is quite long, the file move operation fails. But, Windows Explorer sends an incorrect notification to WPD shell extension that the file has been moved and can be deleted. Thus, the original file is deleted by WPD shell extension.

Solution

• To prevent such issues from occurring, you should shorten the folder path or name before trying to move any file from an MTP device
• Use your backup to restore the deleted file
• If no valid backup exists, use hard drive recovery software to recover the file which is stored on hard drive. Windows hard drive recovery applications are commercial tools specifically designed to recover lost, deleted or missing files from a disk and are competent to maintain the integrity of lost data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a completely reliable and advanced data recovery tool that recovers lost or deleted files from Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based systems. It is a non-destructive hard drive recovery software embedded with advanced options and rich graphic features. The tool supports FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

When you try to restart your Microsoft Windows XP computer after you convert the file system from FAT32 to NTFS, the system might not start properly and you come across a number of error messages which show you that some of the system files are missing. At this point, your Windows computer become unbootable and you can not access your critical files stored on the hard drive. This behavior of Microsoft Windows XP renders your valuable files inaccessible and cause serious data loss situations. In order to retrieve lost Windows files, you are required to go for Windows hard drive recovery solutions using appropriate tools.

In a practical scenario, after converting the file system of your Windows XP computer from FAT 32 to NTFS with the help of “convert drive: /fs:ntfs” command, when you attempt to reboot the system, you come across below error message:
“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys.”

Along with the above error message, you might also experience the below given behaviors of Microsoft Windows XP operating system:

• System crash occurs when you try to boot the system using installation CD of XP.
• System immediately crashes while trying to boot it in safe mode.
• System also crashes when you to restore it in the last known good configuration
• When you attach the hard drive to another healthy computer with Windows XP installed, whole system gets crashed when it attempts to read the drive.

This entire behavior of the Windows XP operating system renders all of your critical files inaccessible and cause grave hard drive data loss circumstances. In order to retrieve your lost and missing files, you are required to identify the cause of data loss and go for hard drive recovery to resolve this issue.

Cause

As stated in above error message, this behavior might occur due to missing or damaged ntfs.sys file. This is core component of NTFS file system and corruption to this file make NTFS file system unusable. Thus Windows XP fails to recognize the hard drive partitions or volumes.

In order to retrieve hard drive data in such situations, complete scanning of hard drive through advanced algorithms is required. This is best possible usinghard drive recovery software. These applications work in most of the cases of data loss. Hard drive recovery software are quite easy and safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and the most powerful solution to all file recovery needs. This software recovers lost files from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. It is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

With rapid changes made in computer technologies on daily bases, the storage devices are getting smaller and smaller that is further resulting in frequent failures and data loss situations. Moreover, companies openings gate for Internet for every employee, threats to data security and integrity are increasing. While an updated and valid backup allows you to restore data, but in case of unavailability of backup or backup file itself getting corrupted or damaged, it becomes necessary to use an advanced hard drive recovery software to recover your data.

Hard drive data is one of the most valuable assets for any company in this world. While there can be numerous factors – logical and physical – for data loss, some of the most frequent factors are discussed below:

Logical factors like operating system malfunctioning, improper system shutdown, virus attacks, accidental deletions, human errors, file system damage, application failure, software program malfunction, metadata structure damage, etc.
Physical factors include heat, water, fire, natural disasters, physical thefts, accidental dropping, etc.

Few common consequences that you might encounter in a data loss situation are:

STOP error messages.
Inaccessibility of hard drive data.
Unbootable operating system.
Physically damaged hard drive.

Resolution:

To resolve all the above issues and access your hard drive data, you will need to use below measures:

In case of data loss through logical corruption, follow the below measures:
1.Use an updated and valid backup to restore your data.
2.In case of no backup availability, re-install the operating system.
3.A clean reinstall of an operating system erases all the data stored on your hard drive partition. In such situations, you will need to use advanced windows hard recovery software to recover your lost data.

In case of data loss due to physical damage, only advanced data recovery service provides can recover your data. These services are primarily provided by data recovery companies.

Stellar Information Systems Limited, a trust worthy name in providing advanced data recovery services, ensures absolute data recovery after almost all physical data loss scenarios. The highly talented and experienced data recovery experts at Stellar perform recovery in the sterilized surroundings of class 100 clean rooms.

To recover data after all logical corruption scenarios, Stellar offers you an advanced Hard drive data recovery application, known as Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. The read only hard drive recovery tool supports recovery from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 based partitions. It recovers 185 different file types that can be further extended. The application is designed for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.