Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery

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.

Computer viruses are the self-replicating programs that can infect your computer system without your permission. Virus infection is one of the major reasons that cause data loss. These can be transmitted as a downloadable file or e-mail attachment or can be present on a CD or a diskette. To prevent against virus infection, Hard Drive Recovery experts always suggest installing a quality antivirus plus keep it up-to-date. An antivirus or security suite can detect and quarantine or remove harmful applications as worms, viruses, trojan horses etc. You should also use efficient antispyware and antispam software for complete PC protection.

Consider a practical instance, you turn on your Windows system and the boot process fails with the following error message:

“STOP Error 0×0000008B
MBR_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH”

The error further describes four parameters: disk signature from MBR, MBR checksum calculated by operating system loader, MBR checksum that is calculated by system and reserved. After this error message, you can’t access your critical data.

Cause

The error message occurs due to MBR (Master Boot Record) checksum mismatch. When the MBR checksum calculated by the system doesn’t match with that of passed in by the loader, the system fails to boot with above STOP error. It happens when the hard disk is infected from virus.

Solution

In order to resolve the above issue, you need to follow these steps in order:

• Scan your hard disk with powerful and up-to-date antivirus software. To perform this, you need to boot your system using a write-protected disk that contains the virus scanner. These applications can help to disinfect the system.
• If your antivirus can’t fix hard disk infection, you need to reformat the hard disk and restore lost files and folders using recent data backup.

In case, data backup is unavailable or it fails to restore the required information, you can use Hard Drive Recovery Software.
Hard drive recovery applications are special tools that can recover and restore lost data in cases of logical hard disk crashes as file system corruption, operating system damage etc. With completely safe recovery process, these tools can recover all types of lost files and folders, including system and data files. Also, they provide several advanced recovery options. Such software are designed with graphically rich interface and hence you can use them quite easily.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the foremost hard drive recovery software to recover the lost data including deleted e-mails. The software can recover data from corrupted, deleted, lost or formatted partitions and volumes. It supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. The software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

Computers with EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) use GPT (GUID Partition Table) as the standard hard disk partitioning system. Intel proposes EFI as the replacement for the PC BIOS that uses Master Boot Record (MBR).In GPT partitioned disks, data that is important to platform operation is placed in partitions and not in hidden or unpartitioned sectors as done in MBR partitioned disks. Due to this reason, you encounter issues while installing Windows operating system. To solve such issues, you might need to recreate all hard disk partitions and opt for suitable partitioning scheme. Recreating the partition structure erases all data and you need to use an updated plus valid data backup to restore the lost data. However, if data backup is not updated, is corrupt or absent, you need to use hard drive recovery applications to extract the lost or inaccessible data.

As a practical instance, when you attempt to install Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 64-Bit version or Windows XP, you might receive the below error message:

“Setup cannot install to the selected partition.
You can only install to GPT disks on IA-64 machines and MBR disks on X-86 machines.
You can only upgrade installations on GPT disks on IA-64 machines and MBR disks on X-86 machines.
To go back to the previous screen press ENTER”

Cause

This error message occurs if both these conditions are true:

1. An operating system is already installed on the hard drive or it had an operating system, which has now been removed.
2. Hard drive is using GPT

You fail to install the required operating systems on GPT hard drives because of the following reasons:

1 On GPT hard drives, you can only set up Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based systems.
2 You can’t set up Windows x64 based and Windows 32-bit operating systems on GPT hard drives.

Solution

You need to convert your GPT hard drive to a MBR hard drive. You can use Disk Management snap-in or diskpart command for it, if an operating system is already installed. You can also delete all existing hard drive partitions using Windows Setup and opting for the option to convert the partitioning scheme. In Windows Server 2003-based systems, it must have Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 installed. After this, you can restore lost data from backup. If the backup is invalid (viz. causes one or more errors during restoration) or incomplete, you should use Hard Drive Recovery tools to recover your critical data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is complete and robust hard drive recovery software. It is equipped with advanced features like disk cloning, drive imaging, RAW Recovery, Drive Status and more. The software supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. This Hard Drive Recovery tool is compatible with Windows 7 (currently in RC1), Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000).

Computer viruses are the self-replicating programs that can infect your computer system without your permission. Virus infection is one of the major reasons that cause data loss. These can be transmitted as a downloadable file or e-mail attachment or can be present on a CD or a diskette. To prevent against virus infection, Hard Drive Recovery experts always suggest installing a quality antivirus plus keep it up-to-date. An antivirus or security suite can detect and quarantine or remove harmful applications as worms, viruses, trojan horses etc. You should also use efficient antispyware and antispam software for complete PC protection.

Consider a practical instance, you turn on your Windows system and the boot process fails with the following error message:

“STOP Error 0×0000008B
MBR_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH”

The error further describes four parameters: disk signature from MBR, MBR checksum calculated by operating system loader, MBR checksum that is calculated by system and reserved. After this error message, you can’t access your critical data.

Cause

The error message occurs due to MBR (Master Boot Record) checksum mismatch. When the MBR checksum calculated by the system doesn’t match with that of passed in by the loader, the system fails to boot with above STOP error. It happens when the hard disk is infected from virus.

Solution

In order to resolve the above issue, you need to follow these steps in order:

• Scan your hard disk with powerful and up-to-date antivirus software. To perform this, you need to boot your system using a write-protected disk that contains the virus scanner. These applications can help to disinfect the system.
• If your antivirus can’t fix hard disk infection, you need to reformat the hard disk and restore lost files and folders using recent data backup. In case, data backup is unavailable or it fails to restore the required information, you can use Hard Drive Recovery Software.

Hard Drive Recovery applications are special tools that can recover and restore lost data in cases of logical hard disk crashes as file system corruption, operating system damage etc. With completely safe recovery process, these tools can recover all types of lost files and folders, including system and data files. Also, they provide several advanced recovery options. Such software are designed with graphically rich interface and hence you can use them quite easily.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the foremost hard drive recovery Software to recover the lost data including deleted e-mails. The software can recover data from corrupted, deleted, lost or formatted partitions and volumes. It supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. The software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

In case your computer is not able to boot, the hard drive crash can not be the only reason behind it. You should try to reboot the system in a different mode viz. Safe Mode, check all cables and connections. If this doesn’t help, then you need to shut down the system and consult Hard Disk Recovery service professionals.

If system can boot from the hard drive till it can display error reports through video subsystem, it becomes easier for a user to diagnose the actual problem. One of such error messages is:

“Initialization error on HDD0”

Where, HDD0 shows that main hard drive has got failed. Based on number of hard drives attached and their configuration, hard drive number may vary.

The error message occurs when computer system encounters issues starting from the hard drive after POST (Power On Self Test). It occurs due to physical issues with one or more hard disk components (mechanical or electronic).

Reason

A hard drive may get failed due to number of reasons:

• Head Crash: This is a frequently occurring instance. It occurs when read/write head comes in contact with the fast moving platters. It is the prime cause of physical damage to their magnetic material. Data lost post such malfunction is not recoverable.
• Air Filter Crash: Hard disk incorporates an air filter to maintain air pressure levels and moisture. However, when air filter function gets affected due to faults, dust particles may settle down on platter surface and create obstacles in read/write operations. More severely, it may cause head crash.
• Other Components Failure: Other hard disk internals may also fail. This includes spindle motor, spindle, actuator, head arms etc.
• Electronic Failure: A hard disk is comprised of several Integrated Circuits (ICs) that control its internal functioning. Their damage can make hard disk inaccessible.
• External Factors: If hard disk is exposed to high intensity magnetic waves, heat, water, shocks, heat or power surges, it may stop functioning.
• Wear and Tear: The continuous use of hard drives for long time intervals can cause wear and tear to its parts and make them fail. Hard drive manufacturers provide the expected time of failure known as MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) on their manuals, which is estimated by considering that hard disk is used under normal conditions.

Hard Disk Recovery service helps users to reclaim their lost data from such physically failed hard drives. To determine the cause of failure, affected hard disks are opened under safe environment of Clean Rooms. Clean Rooms are controlled lab environments to perform intensive component level tasks. After the cause of crash is known, hard drives are treated with appropriate Hard Drive Recovery procedures, which are tailor-made solutions as per nature of the problem.

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the premier provider of state-of-the-art hard drive recovery services. The data recovery service is provided in Class-100 Clean Rooms. Our recovery solutions are available for almost all types of hard drives as SCSI, SATA, EIDE and IDE. We also provides solutions for Server, RAID, NAS and SAN hard drives.

Microsoft Windows XP is based upon the architecture of Windows 2000 and NT. But sometimes, during Windows XP installation, you may face issues like system file corruption. In such cases, you should take data backup as the solution may require a clean Windows reinstall. In case of backup unavailability or other issues like error occurrence while restoration, hard disk recovery becomes necessary to retrieve lost data.

As a practical scenario, you may encounter the following error during Windows XP bootup:

“The file C:\windows\system32\c_1252.nls is missing or corrupt”

The error message occurs due to the corruption or loss of ‘c_1252.nls’ file.

• NLS stands for National Language Support. The files with .nls extensions are code page that consist of tables. They are used to translate text into other languages or alphabets.

Solution

The possible solutions are:

•You can use Windows XP operating system disk to start the system and select recovery console option. You need to use the chkdsk/r command in recovery console. This command is used for repairing hard disk errors.
•If the problem persists, you can replace the required system file (c_1252.nls). It can be accomplished through Recovery Console with these commands:

cd system32
ren c_1252.nls c_1252.old
expand Drive Letter:\i386\c_1252.nl_ c:\windows\system32

Here, drive letter: can be C:, D: as per the system.
• If hard disk is formatted with FAT32 file system, you can replace the file by using Windows 98 emergency boot disk. After starting the system using this CD, the following commands need to be typed at the command prompt:

c:
cd windows\system32
ren c_1252.nls c_1252.old
extract drive:\i386\c_1252.nl_

This method is useful when Windows XP Recovery Console is not able to solve the problem.

•You can also try upgrading Windows XP

•If this doesn’t resolve the system behavior, you can go for clean Windows XP reinstall after backing up all important data. Backup must be checked as incomplete backup may lead to hard drive recovery post data loss.

Hard disk recovery is possible using commercial data recovery tools. These hard drive recovery software can scan the drive and recover data. The applications can be used in each logical data loss situation. They offer interactive interface and advanced options to achieve precise data recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the finest hard drive recovery
tool that provides a solution to all Windows data loss situations. It can recover lost data from NTFS5, NTFS, vFAT, FAT32 and FAT16 file system. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.