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.

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