Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery

Hard drive is the main storage device in any Linux computer. It stores all your significant data, applications, and Linux operating system. You can divide this non-volatile mass storage media into various volumes, for effective management of your significant data. Hard drive stores all the data on moving magnetic platters, which provides extremely fast data accessing.

It is considered as a reliable storage media, however you should create regular backup of your significant data to ensure absolute data safety. Backup is the identical copy of your precious data that helps you to prevent data loss and need of Linux hard drive recovery solutions.

Under some circumstances, your may not access your valuable data from Linux hard drive, can not boot up your system, and come across other similar situations. It can be caused due to logical damage to Linux hard drive. The most common reasons of hard drive failure and data loss from Linux hard drive are as given below:

File system corruption- File system is a significant component of your Linux hard drive. It is used by Linux operating system to organize files/directories on hard drive. It file system is damaged, Linux can not locate the files/directories stored  on disk and thus you come across data loss situations.

Virus Infection- Viruses are malicious programs, which may damage data and data structures on your Linux hard drive. They make your system unbootable, inaccessible, and unusable.

Running fsck on a mounted volume- Linux operating systems includes an inbuilt utility, fsck, to check the integrity of file system and fix minor corruption. In case you run this command-line tool on a mounted Linux volume, severe corruption and data loss may occur.

Improper system shutdown- If your system shuts down unexpectedly because of power outage or system crash, current system processes are not stopped properly.

Hard drive formatting- If you accidentally format your Linux hard drive, all the data is removed from it. Formatting also deletes critical system metadata structures.

If you encounter any of the above problems, you need to restore data from most recent backup and perform hard drive recovery.

You can easily retrieve your mission-critical data using advanced and powerful Linux hard drive recovery software. The applications offer easy and safe Linux hard drive recovery with simple user interface and non-destructive behavior.

Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is the most advanced and efficient utility to offer assured recovery of your valuable data. The software recovers data from all Ext4, Ext3, Ext2, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12 file system volumes. It works well with all major distributions of Linux operating system, such as Fedora, SUSE, Red Hat, Debian, and Mandriva.

In the Windows systems, the registry is the hierarchical database that saves all the information of the configuration settings and miscellaneous options. It has the settings for the low-level system components as well as for the third-party applications. Sometimes, when the critical registry entries get corrupted or go missing you are unable to boot the system.

Such situations can arise because of various reasons such as virus infections, abrupt system shutdown, hardware malfunctions, power outages, etc. In such cases, you should resolve to using appropriate steps to address this situation. However, if you are not able to do so then you should use a third-party hard drive recovery software.

Consider a scenario wherein you are working on your Windows 2000 system. Suddenly, there is a power surge and the system shuts down abruptly. You switch on the system when the power is restored but fail to do so. An error message is displayed, that is:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEMced”

Kindly note that the “ced” letters are not part of the message and were actually part of the error message in the previous screen.

Cause:

There could be various reasons for this error message.

A Promise Technology, Inc. ATA66 PCI controller card is installed in the computer.

The System hive in the registry is damaged or missing.

Resolution:

To resolve this error message, you should perform either of the following methods:

Remove the Promise Technology ATA66 PCI Controller: Remove the Promise Technology ATA66 PCI controller card, check the BIOS settings to make sure that the IDE controller on your motherboard is enabled, and then run Windows 2000 Setup again.

Restore a Backup of the System Hive: Use the Repair Console tool to replace the backup copy of the System hive from the repair folder.

Reduce the Size of the System Hive: If a large number of resources are shared on the computer, the registry may become too large. So, you should reduce the size of the System Hive.

However, if you are still not able to resolve the issue and access the hard drive then you should use a third-party hard drive recovery tool to recover hard drive. Such read-only tools are able to perform hard drive recovery and do not overwrite the hard drive while scanning it.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a Windows hard drive recovery software that enables you to recover hard drive from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. It is able to recover more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard disks, external hard drives, iPods, memory cards, etc. In addition, this hard drive recovery software is capable of recovering deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

There are some situations where you need to promote your Windows Server to domain controller and to demote domain controller to member server. This is possible using the Dcpromo.exe (Active Directory Installation Wizard) feature of Microsoft Windows Server.

This wizard deletes configuration data for domain controller for the Active Directory, as a part of demotion process.  It takes form of the NTDS settings object, which is stored as child of server object in the Active Directory Sites and Services. However, if  you use the Dcpromo.exe utility incorrectly, you may come across serious problems of system failure and data loss, which ultimately requires hard drive recovery to be fixed.

The information about promotion process and NTDS settings is stored in Active Directory in the below location:

“CN=NTDS Settings,CN=<servername>,CN=Servers,CN=<sitename>,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain>…”

Attributes of NTDS settings object has data that represents how domain controller is recognized by the replication partners, naming contexts which are organized on machine, default query policy, and whether domain controller is global catalog server.

If NTDS settings objects are removed improperly, Exchange Server administrator can manually delete metadata for server object. Administrator can manually delete NTDS Settings objects in Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2000 Server using Ntdsutil.exe tool. Before you modify the Active Directory attributes or remove server objects, you should keep the following things in mind:

When you use the LDP utility, ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces) Edit snap-in, or any other LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) client version 3 and you improperly modify the Active Directory object attributes, you may come across serious problems. Such problems may cause operating system malfunction and require you to format the hard drive and reinstall operating system.

You should always make sure that you have complete backup of your mission-critical data after demotion before you manually remove NTDS Settings objects from any server. Incorrect use of Ntdsutil.exe utility might affect Active Directory and cause severe data loss situations.

When any of the above problems occur and you face serious data loss from your Windows hard drive, hard drive data recovery is the best option to sort it out. The hard drive recovery is possible using third-party data recovery software.

The hard drive data recovery applications use high-end scanning techniques to carry out in-depth scan of entire hard drive and extract all lost data from it. The have interactive user interface and read-only conduct to ensure easy and safe recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most efficient and advanced utility that recovers lost data in all scenarios. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. It recovers data from all FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions.

A file system defines the mechanism to store and organize computer files and their data in a computer system. Two basic types of file systems are used in the Windows system, FAT and NTFS. Of these, the NTFS file system is considered more beneficiary for the system as it is more secure, performs file compression, encrypts the files, etc.

That is the reasons more and more users are shifting from FAT to NTFS. However, sometimes when you perform the conversion the Windows system is unable to boot. In such situations, you should use appropriate methods to resolve the issue. However, if you are unable to sort the issue then you should use a third-party Windows hard drive recovery software to do the needful for you.

Consider a scenario wherein you have FAT 32 file system in your Windows XP system. You want to convert the active partition from FAT 32 to NTFS using the ‘convert drive: /fs:ntfs command’. However, when you perform this operation and restart the system, it is unable to boot. An error message is displayed, that is:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys”

Cause:

The root cause of this error message is that the Ntfs.sys file has either corrupted or gone missing while you converted the file system from FAT 32 to NTFS.

Resolution:

To resolve this error message, you should perform the following steps:

Boot the system using the Windows XP CD ROM.

Enter the Recovery Console and press R to start the repair process.

Type the following commands and press Enter after each command:

cd \windows\system32\drivers

ren ntfs.sys ntfs.old

The ntfs.sys file will be renamed if it is corrupt. However, if it is not there it means that it is missing.

Type the following command and press Enter.

copy X:\i386\ntfs.sys drive:\windows\system32\drivers [Where X=CD-ROM Drive]

Enter quit, and press Enter to exit the Recovery Console.

Restart the system. The system should boot properly now.

However, if you are still not able to access the data then you should use a third-party hard drive recovery software to do the needful. Such read-only tools are able to recover hard drive using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a hard drive recovery software that enables you to recover lost, deleted, or formatted data from both FAT and NTFS file systems. It is capable of recovering more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard disks, external hard drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, etc. This Windows hard drive recovery software is capable of recovering deleted emails from Outlook Express and MS Outlook. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.

NTLDR (NT Loader) is the most essential file that is needed by the Windows NT (Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000) systems to boot. It is run from the primary hard disk drive and contains the main Boot loader. The well-being of NTLDR is very significant for the boot process as if this file is missing, then your system would not be able to boot.

The NTLDR file may get missing or corrupted due to various reasons, such as virus infections, power outages, damaged operating system, etc. In such cases, you should consider taking appropriate corrective measures to rectify the problem. However, if you are unable to resolve the issue then you should use a third-party Windows hard drive recovery software to do the needful.

Consider a scenario wherein you have a Windows Server 2003 system. When you start the system, it fails to do so. An error message is displayed, that is:

“NTLDR is missing

Press any key to restart”

Cause:

For the aforementioned error message, there are following reasons:

• The BIOS settings of the system are outdated
• Any or all of the following files are either corrupted or missing:
  • boot.ini
  • Ntdetect.com
  • Ntldr

Resolution:

To resolve your computer system from the aforementioned problems and access the Windows system, you need to perform the following methods:

• Check the BIOS settings: Verify the BIOS settings and check if the latest version of the BIOS is installed on your computer.
• Repair the Windows repair environment: Repair the Windows repair environment if any of the aforementioned files is missing or damaged. You can perform it by using any of the following methods:
  • By using a boot disk that contains all the mentioned files.
  • By using the Recovery Console to copy the mentioned files to your computer.
  • By using the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM to repair the Windows Startup Environment.

The problem will be resolved using the aforementioned methods. However, if you are still not able to address the issue then you should use a third-party Windows hard drive recovery software to do the needful. Such read-only tools are able to recover hard drive contents without overwriting the original contents.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a hard drive recovery software that enables you to recover lost, deleted, or formatted volumes. It is able to recover trapped data from all sorts of data loss situations. This hard drive recovery tool is competent enough to recover more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard disks, external hard drives, iPods, etc. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.

Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) is the new-generation drive interface used to connect the system with the storage devices. It is fast, compact, reliable with data transfer, and supports hot swapping. However, sometimes you face difficulty in booting your Windows 7 system.

This may happen because of any hardware failure or hard drive corruption. In such cases, you should take remedial measures. However, if you are not able to resolve the issue then you should use a third-party hard drive recovery software to recover hard drive.

Consider a scenario wherein you have a Windows 7 system. In this, you have just changed the SATA mode of the system drive to use either the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) specification or RAID features. After that, you restart your system but it fails to boot. An error message is displayed, that is:

“STOP 0×0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE”

Cause:

The root cause of this error message is that the disk driver is disabled.

This issue occurs if the disk driver in Windows 7 is disabled. This driver must be enabled before you change the SATA/RAID mode of the boot drive.

Resolution:

To resolve this error, you should enable the driver before changing the SATA or RAID mode of the system drive. To do this, you should modify the system registry by performing the following steps:

• Quit all the Windows-based applications.
• Click Start, and type regedit in the Start Search box.
• Press Enter.
• Click Continue on the User Account Control message box.
• Click one of the following registry subkeys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV

• Right-click Start in the Name column, and click Modify.
• Enter 0 in the Value data text box.
• Click OK.
• Quit Registry Editor.

However, you should be careful while modifying the registry settings yourself. If you are not sure how to do it safely, you should consult a technician who should be able to do it more confidently. However, if you have valuable data and want to restore that first, then you should use a third-party Windows hard drive recovery software to recover the trapped data. Such read-only tools are able to recover data safely without overwriting the original data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a hard drive recovery software that enables you to recover lost, deleted, or formatted data. It is capable of recovering more than 185 file types from various storage media such as hard drives, external hard drives, pen drives, etc. In addition, this hard drive recovery software is able to recover lost emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

Among several reasons, an interrupted Windows update is one of the major causes that can lead to Windows boot failure. So, before deciding to install any Windows update, it is advised to make sure that your computer battery is in the condition to support the complete process, just in case the power goes off.

In worst conditions, such problems can compel you to use your last available data backup or a Hard Drive Recovery solution to recover lost/inaccessible data, let’s see how.

Consider a real instance when a Windows 7 user tries to upgrade his operating system without ensuring the availability of proper power backup. The user installs the upgrade and as soon as the computer shuts down, the auto installation of updates starts. Since the UPS (or Laptop battery) is not charged, the computer shuts down without letting the updates to install completely. At next attempt of starting the computer, it won’t boot resulting in below error message on screen:

“A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.”

Rebooting the computer does not help either.

Explanation

Windows installation has been damaged by an interrupted Windows update.

How to Solve?

You might be able to solve the above or similar issues using one of the following techniques:

Boot your computer using Windows install disc and use ‘ Last Known Good Configuration’ option to restore your Windows 7 computer to the last working state.

Boot your computer using Windows install disc (or repair disc) and try options like, ‘Startup Repair’

If possible, take the corrupted hard drive out of the computer and attach it to a working computer to backup the data you need. You can then safely re-install Windows.

However, if backing up the data is not possible and you do not have previous backup, use a Hard Drive Recovery Software to scan and restore the lost data. A Hard Drive Recovery application can even scan an unbootable hard drive and extract all possible information in exact format.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a reliable and effective solution to recover lost/inaccessible data from hard drives. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000, this Hard Drive Recovery Software includes various advanced options like, disk cloning, disk imaging, RAW data recovery, and more.

Whether you work in a company that trades in intellectual property, financial services, or any other field, data is the lifeline of your business. Considering the fact that more than 90% of the company’s data is saved in hard drives, it becomes necessary to take special care of these storage devices. However, no matter how much precautions the user takes, these drives (manufactured by any company) are prone to corruption due to virus infections, human errors, and many more similar reasons.

To prevent any such hard drive damage situation, it is advisable to create an updated backup of your hard drive data on regular bases. However, there are millions of cases when the backup is created on the same corrupted hard drive, or backup file gets damaged due to logical crashes. For such situations, data recovery is possible using a third-party hard drive recovery software.

To illustrate the above case, consider a practical case where you have Windows XP based system that contains a Seagate hard drive. The drive was working fine, until you encountered the below error message at the startup of Windows:

“Non-system disk or disk error”

After the above error message appears, the operating system installed on Seagate hard drive could not boot, which further resulted in inaccessibility of hard drive data. Additionally, the same error message appears every time you try to access the hard drive.

Cause:

The above error message appears when the Seagate hard drive gets corrupted or damaged.

Resolution:

To get past above error message, you will need to take underneath actions:

1.Reinstall Windows XP operating system.

2.Restore the data from an up-to-date backup.

However, in case of unavailability of a valid backup, the formatted Seagate hard drive data can only be recovered using a commercial Hard Drive Recovery Software.

A Hard Drive Recovery utility is a dependable tool to recover all your formatted hard drive data, irrespective of the brand of the hard drive. The recovery tool serves as a self-explanatory software that requires no prior technical knowledge to perform recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software provides fast, yet complete recovery of formatted hard drive data. The software supports recovery from almost all hard drive brands and types. Compatible with NTFS, NTFS5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems, the Hard Drive Recovery utility can be installed on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

Startup problems are very common with any of the operating system, including Microsoft Windows. Most of such problems are caused by damaged system files of Windows Operating system, such as registry. Windows registry is a database, which contains critical information about all the installed software and hardware components of your computer. This behavior does not let you log into your system and renders all your valuable data inaccessible. It leads to significant data loss and requires hard drive recovery to be fixed, if you do not have a complete backup in place.

For example, you may come across the any of the below error messages, when you attempt to boot up your Windows XP operating system-based computer:

Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE

Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate

System error: Lsass.exe

When trying to update a password the return status indicates that the value provided as the current password is not correct.

After this behavior of Microsoft Windows XP, you cannot get into your system and access stored data from Microsoft Windows hard drive. You must first recognize the cause of this issue and resolve it using Hard Drive Data Recovery, to get your mission critical data back.

Root of the problem

You may come across this behavior of Microsoft Windows XP computer due to corrupt or damaged registry hives or entire registry database. The Windows registry may get damaged because of numerous reasons, such as virus infection, unexpected system shutdown, operating system malfunction, and incorrect registry editing.

Resolution

You can sort out this problem by restoring damaged registry file from the most recent backup. It is quite easy to restore Windows registry. If the backup is not available, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall Microsoft Windows operating system.

It fixes all the hard drive related problems, but also removes the data from your hard drive, causing severe data loss. In such cases, Hard Drive Recovery Software come for your rescue. The applications are particularly designed to systematically scan the affected hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. The Hard Drive Recovery with the applications is quite safe, quick, and easy.

Stellar Phoenix windows data recovery software recovers lost data from hard drive, USB drive, memory card, and other Windows-supported storage media. It is usable with Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. The software recovers data from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

File system (FAT or NTFS) installed on a Windows-based hard drive is a database that saves all critical information related to every file stored on the hard drive. Corruption in file system is one of the most common factors of inaccessibility of data saved in the hard drive. Few reasons for file system corruption are unexpected system shutdown, virus attack, application malfunction, and operating system damage.

In most cases of file system damage, a Windows user encounters an error message that halts the boot process of Windows. To overcome such error messages and to overcome file system damage, the user needs to use an inbuilt repair utility named ‘CHKDSK’. While this utility is helpful in repairing file system, there are a few cases when it fails to repair. In such situations, data can only be accessed by restoring it from an updated backup. But, in case of no backup or deficient backup, the user needs to use a powerful
hard drive recovery software.

Consider a real-time scenario wherein you encounter the below error message while trying to boot your Windows XP system:

“The volume X: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
The disk in drive X: is not formatted.
There was an error accessing drive X:. The disk is not formatted.”

Once the above error message appears, the system becomes unbootable and the hard drive data becomes inaccessible.

Cause:

The root cause for the occurrence of the above error message is corruption in file system.

Resolution:

To resolve the above error message, you need to run CHKDSK command. However, the command might also fail, displaying the below error message:

“The type of the filesystem is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.”

To overcome the above CHKDSK failure error message and to boot your Windows XP system, you need to perform a clean reinstall of Windows XP operating system. This allows you to install new file system on your hard drive and also brings your system in a bootable state. However, re-installation also results in complete inaccessibility of all previously saved files and folders saved on your hard drive. To access those files, you need to opt for an advanced Hard Drive Recovery Software. Such Hard Drive Recovery tools are easily available on the Internet.

Stellar Phoenix
windows data recovery assures recovery of all the files and folders post re-installation. Compatible with almost all file systems (NTFS, NTFS5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT), the Hard Drive Recovery utility supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 operating systems.