Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery

Sometimes, when you try to boot Windows XP computer system, it displays an empty, black screen. The black screen flashes even before you could see Windows XP logo and after the Power-On Self Test is complete. After the blank screen appears, the system stops booting, making the hard drive data inaccessible. To overcome black screen and to access the data, a Windows user needs to identify its exact cause. However, if the user is unable to determine the reason and still wants to read the data stored in the hard drive, then s/he needs to restore the data from an updated backup. But in case of deficient or corrupted backup, the user is left with no option, but to search for an effective third-party Partition Recovery Software.

To thoroughly explain the above scenario, consider you try to boot your Windows XP system and encounter a black screen. The same screen appears every time you attempt to boot your system.

Cause:

The two main causes for the occurrence of black screen are:

•    There is a CD, DVD, or a floppy in the CD, DVD, or floppy drive at the time of starting your system.

•    The second reason could be corruption in Master Boot Record (MBR), Partition table(s), boot sector, and NTLDR file. Corruption in either of these components breaks the boot sequence, resulting in black screen.

Resolution:

To resolve the above error message and to access the hard drive data, follow the below guidelines:

Remove the CD, DVD, or floppy from CD, DVD, or floppy drive, and then boot your system.

In case of corruption:

•    Run FIXMBR command in ‘Windows XP Recovery Console’, to repair corrupt MBR.

•    Run FIXBOOT command in ‘Windows XP Recovery Console’, to repair boot partition.

•    Re-install Windows XP operating system and restore the data from an updated backup, in case of partition table corruption. However, in case no backup of hard drive partitions is available, then you will need to opt for an advanced Partition Recovery utility. A Partition Recovery utility employs intensive recovery procedures to recover all lost partitions and data within them.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a powerful Partition Recovery Software to recover all lost, deleted, and formatted hard drive partitions. It recovers FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. The user-friendly software can be installed on Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.

An easy way to fix Windows Vista startup problems is to run ‘Startup Repair’. When Windows Vista fails at startup, it immediately launches ‘Startup Repair’, which then analyzes the startup logs and runs a series of diagnostic tests to determine the reason of failure. It looks for a range of startup problems, including corrupt disk metadata, incompatible or damaged device drivers, and lost or damaged startup configuration files. However, if Windows fails to start because of some problems that it cannot fix, ‘Startup Repair’ reports errors. These errors can give you a brief idea about procedures needed to be followed to Recover Windows Partition data. Following is an example that illustrates a similar type of situation.

Suppose you use a Windows Vista computer that unexpectedly stops working. You try to boot the computer, ‘Startup Repair’ starts but cannot complete operations. Additionally, it shows the below or similar error report about the failure:

StartupRepair V2

Problem Signature 1: AutoFailover

Problem Signature 2: Signature1

Problem Signature 3: Signature2

Problem Signature 4: Signature3

Problem Signature 5: CorruptFile

Problem Signature 6: CorruptFile

Problem Signature 7: Signature4

Problem Signature 8: Signature5

Problem Signature 9: SystemRestore

Problem Signature 10: 0

OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1

Locale ID: Locale ID

This error report suggests ‘Startup Repair’ has been unable to fix Windows corruption.

Resolution

You can try the below mentioned solutions to solve the described problem:

•    Try to start the computer in Safe Mode, and select a restore point that was created before the problem started occurring.

•    If Windows Safe Mode doesn’t work, try booting the computer from Windows install disc and then run operations like, ‘Startup Repair’, ‘System Restore’, etc.

•    Try removing your hard drive and attach it as a slave to a working computer. If this works, you can salvage and backup all the data from Windows partitions. Alternatively, you can reinstall Windows and use your last data backup or a Windows Partition Recovery utility to extract lost data. You can Recover Windows Partition data by specialized utilities that can scan and restore all the lost or deleted files and folders.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a feature-rich utility that recovers and restores lost data by running powerful, yet safe, scanning algorithms. This Windows Partition Recovery software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000. The software incorporates advanced recovery features like, disk cloning, disk imaging, RAW file recovery, and more.

Microsoft Windows operating system enables you to divide your computer hard drive into various partitions. These partitions work as separate disks and can be used to install operating system(s) and store data. This arrangement helps you to minimize the risks of data loss in case of operating system malfunction and system crash. Every primary partition has an entry in the partition table, which is a data structure that is read by operating system to access the partitions. Under some circumstances, this data structure gets damaged or becomes inaccessible. In such situations, all your hard drive partitions become inaccessible and you encounter partition loss. At this point, you need to deploy Partition Recovery Software solutions to get your lost partitions recovered.

Partition Table is a significant 64-byte data structure, which contains information about all the primary partitions. It is located at the same disk sector in which MBR (Master Boot Record) is stored. The data structure conforms to standard layout, which is independent of operating system. Every partition entry is 16-byte. Last two byes of the sector has partition signature.

Partition table corruption is a horrifying reality that may take place due to numerous reasons, such as virus infection, improper system shutdown, and even hardware problems. Windows gives you various symptoms to identify partition table corruption, like boot failure, boot time errors, and BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). Some of the common error messages that indicate partition table corruption are:

•    Unable to read partition table

•    Invalid Partition Table

•    Error loading operating system

•    Missing operating system

After this behavior of Microsoft Windows operating system, your computer refuses to boot up and all your partitions become unusable.

In order to work around this problem, you need to replace the damaged partition table with a new one. This can be done by formatting the hard drive and reinstalling operating system.

However, this process can help you fix the problem, but also removes all the partition and stored data, causing serious partition loss. At this point, Partition Recovery Software come to your rescue.

These applications enable you to Recover Partition in an easy way. These Windows Data Recovery tools do not alter original data as they have read-only and non-destructive conduct.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software uses advanced scanning algorithms to insure absolute recovery of lost data. It recovers NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. The recovery software with interactive and self-descriptive user interface works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Microsoft Windows operating system enables you to use its various versions in dual-boot configuration. You can run different versions of Windows operating system on a single machine. A combination of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and Microsoft Windows XP in dual-boot configuration, is very popular and quite common, which is used.

However, in some situations, you can not boot your computer with Microsoft Windows 2003 Server computer. This renders Windows 2003 partitions inaccessible and causes severe partition loss situations. At this point, you need to go for Partition Recovery Software to retrieve lost Windows partitions.

In a practical scenario, you may come across the below error message when you attempt to start Microsoft Windows 2003 Server in dual-boot configuration with Windows XP:

“Windows Server 2003 could not start because the following files were missing or corrupted:

Windows\System32\Config\System Ntldr MISSING

You can attempt to repair this file by starting Windows setup from original floppies or boot from CD-ROM.

Select ‘r’ at first screen to repair”

The boot process gets halted after the above error.

Cause

You may experience this problem if any of the below conditions are true:

•    You have configured your system as dual-boot with Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and Windows XP, and you installed MS Windows XP after installing Windows 2003.

•    You’re dual booting Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 after reinstalling Windows XP.

Microsoft Windows XP doesn’t detect extra startup features of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server. After that, Microsoft Windows XP replaces all the shared boot files of Windows (Ntdetect.com and Ntldr).

Solution

In order to sort out this issue, you need to replace the Ntdetect.com and Ntldr files of Microsoft Windows Server 2003. To do so, you need to boot your computer in Windows Recovery Console and use fixboot command. You can copy the boot files from I386 from Microsoft Windows 2003 Server boot CD.

If the above process fails and you can not replace Windows boot files, the problem can not be fixed. In such cases, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall operating system. But, this process causes serious partition loss and needs Partition Recovery.

You can Recover Partition using commercial Windows Partition Recovery applications. The applications use high-end scanning techniques to methodically scan whole hard drive and extract all lost, missing, detected, or corrupted Windows partitions.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a safe and easy to use application that ensures absolute recovery of lost partitions. The software recovers NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. It is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Although Windows 7 is more reliable and improved than its earlier counterparts, but instances that can cause its data to get lost are still noticeable. Windows 7 partitions are generally formatted to NTFS, which can get corrupt for several reasons. NTFS corruption reasons include unexpected power outage, partition table corruption, and more. Thankfully, there are several Windows Data Recovery utilities available that can help you extract lost data in such cases, when data backup is not available. Further, we’ll discuss one such realistic scenarios that has rendered Windows 7 partition data inaccessible.

Consider, a Windows XP computer with two partitions: partition A – the primary partition to store Windows and partition B – the data partition to store user data. You decide to upgrade Windows and opt for clean installation of Windows 7 on partition A, anticipating that the data on partition B will remain intact.

After Windows 7 installation is successfully done, you start the computer and try to access partition B. But contrary to your expectations, partition B remains no longer accessible. You can see this partition listed in ‘My Computer’, but when you click to access it, you get below error message:

“Access Denied – Drive Not Accessible”

The error suggests that you do not have sufficient permissions to open the drive, you are trying to access. If this is the sole reason, you, as an administrator, can try executing the below command from the elevated command prompt:

takeown /f drive_name:\ /R /D Y

Where, drive_name should be replaced with the letter of affected drive. This solution generally works, if you are running a dual-boot computer and do not have required permissions to access the files and folders of drive.

Drive inaccessibility can also root from partition corruption due to partition table concerns. Thus, you need to delete the corrupted partition and apply your last backup to restore its files and folders. However, if no good backup is available, you need a Partition Recovery Software to recover everything. Windows Partition Recovery software are exclusive tools designed for recovering lost data in instances like above.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one of the best products that can recover your lost data in a few clicks. This Partition Recovery Software enables a deep scanning that proves helpful in retrieving inaccessible data safely. The tool supports recovery from Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 operating systems.

Windows Registry is one of the most important part of Microsoft Windows operating system. It is a database, which stores all the configuration options and settings of Windows. Registry also contains settings for the low-level OS components and applications, that run on Windows platform, such as services, device drivers, kernel, user interface, SAM, and third-party software. In case this hierarchical database gets damaged, your system may not boot and you may not be able to access Windows partitions on the drive. This behavior of Windows operating system leads to critical partition loss. In order to recover lost partitions in such cases, you need to opt for Windows Partition Recovery.

Consider, one fine day, when you start your Windows-based computer, and come across following Stop error message:

Stop 0xc0000218 (0xe11a30e8, 0×00000000, 0×000000000,0×00000000)

UNKNOWN_HARD_ERROR

Or

Stop: 0xc0000218 {Registry File Failure}

The registry cannot load the hive (file):

\SystemRoot\System32\Config\SYSTEM or its log or alternate.

It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.

After the above error, system boot process fails. In order to sort out this problem, you need to find out the actual cause of this problem and perform Partition Recovery by sorting it out.

Grounds of the issue

The above behavior occurs if the necessary registry hives can not be loaded into memory. You may face this problem if the file is either missing or corrupt. Registry files may get damaged due to virus infection, hard drive corruption, file system errors, improper system shutdown, and other such reasons.

How to Fix Registry Corruption?

•    Run ‘chkdsk /p’ command on your hard drive using the Recovery Console. After completion of disk checking, reboot the system.

•    When the operating system loads, press Space Bar key when ‘Load Last Known Good’ message is displayed.

•    Perform parallel installation, and restore damaged registry files from backup.

If the above methods can not help you to solve the problem, you need to format your hard drive and reinstall Windows operating system. But, hard drive formatting removes all the partitions and stored data. In such cases, Partition Recovery Software becomes need of the hour.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive utility to ensure perfect recovery of lost Windows partitions. The application uses advanced scanning techniques to carry out in-depth scan of the entire hard drive to extract all lost partitions. It can Recover Partition in a safe and easy way. The software has an interactive design and read-only behavior. It supports recovery from Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems, and recovers data from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions.

A fatal system error message while booting a Windows XP operating system appears mainly due to device driver corruption, file system damage, and operating system crash. This fatal system error makes the system unbootable, rendering to inaccessibility of data saved in Windows XP hard drive. In such cases, if the user has created an updated backup, then s/he can restore data from the backup and continue with his/her work. However, if the user has forgotten to create a backup, then s/he needs to search for a powerful Partition Recovery solutions.

Below is one such fatal system error message that appears when you boot your Windows XP system:

“c000021a Fatal System Error

The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c”

Since the error message appears every time during the booting process, the data saved in the hard drive can not be accessed.

Solution:

To get rid of the above error message and to access the data, you need to:

1.    Insert Windows XP CD to boot your system.

2.    After the system boots, press ‘r’ to use the ‘Recovery Console’.

3.    Press ‘Enter’ to select different keyboard layout.

4.    Select ‘Windows installation’ if you want to log in. In case, there is only one installation, then the value will be ‘1′.

5.    Enter the ‘Administrative’ password, if asked during the installation.

6.    Change the folder using:

cd WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB925902$\spuninst

7.    Execute the command:

batch spuninst.txt

8.    If the above command is successful, you might be able to view a spuninst.tag file using ‘DIR’ copmmand.

9.    Reboot your system.

While the above steps help you to overcome the fatal error message, there are situations in which the error message persists. In such cases, you need to re-install Windows XP operating system. To recover lost data after formatting, a user needs to use third-party Partition Recovery application.

A Partition Recovery Software recoups all lost files and folders from a formatted Windows based hard drive. The software can be easily downloaded from the Internet, and installed, and even used by a non-technical user.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a powerful recovery utility to recover formatted hard drive partitions and data within them. Designed for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000, the Partition Recovery Software is embedded with powerful options like, raw recovery, disk cloning, and disk imaging. It is compatible with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems.

An upgrade to a later version of Windows leads to better computer performance and stability. However, experts suggest that whenever you upgrade your Windows computer, always backup your important data. The reason is that if the upgrade is interrupted or error is experienced, it may affect your hard disk partition and even lead to its inaccessibility. Data once lost can be re-accessed by restoring it from backup or using some Partition Recovery techniques.

The above statements will be more clear with the scenario discussed herewith for Windows XP. One of the Windows XP users upgrades his computer to a later version. The upgrade process completes and after this, when the user tries to start the computer, he/she observes that a particular hard disk partition, on which the operating system was installed, is not accessible. User cannot access the system partition, i.e.  the partition. Consequently, access to the computer and its data is not possible.

Reason

One of the main causes for the above behavior to exhibit is that system partition has got corrupted. This can occur if the partition table get errors because of Windows XP upgrade.

Another reason for the same issue can be BIOS-related: either you are using an incompatible BIOS or hard disk is not correctly configured in CMOS steup.

Solution

The recovery tips for the described issue are:

•    You can try updating the computer BIOS and check if this can enable your system partition to be detected

•    Also, you should check if hard disk has been properly configured within CMOS setup. Depending on your BIOS type, you can try changing the access mode of hard disk drive to ‘LBA’ or ‘Large’

•    If the partition is still inaccessible, you need to delete and then recreate the corrupted partition.

After recreating the partition, you need to restore lost data from backup. But if you do not have any suitable backup in place, use a third-party utility to Recover Windows Partition. Easy to operate Partition Recovery software have rich graphical interface and thus make Windows data recovery an easy job.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the finest utility that recovers lost data from computers running Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, or 2000. A world-known product, it incorporates safe scanning algorithms to locate and Recover Windows Partition that has been lost, corrupted, deleted, or formatted. With its advanced features, this recovery software is the best data recovery option.

Is your Windows boot or system partition damaged? Is your system refusing to boot with some strange error messages? This behavior may occur due to corrupt, missing, or inaccessible boot files or Windows system files. In such circumstances, Microsoft Windows computer can not boot and thus does not let you log into the system or to access hard drive partitions. It results in critical partition loss situations and needs Partition Recovery, in case you do not have a complete backup in place.

When you boot your Microsoft Windows computer, you may come across the below error message if your boot or system volume is damaged (here second parameter is the 0xC0000032 DISK_CORRUPTION_ERROR):

“Stop 0×0000007B (0×00000000, 0xC0000032, 0×00000000, 0×00000000)

Inaccessible_boot_device”

When you attempt to install Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system on an NTFS file system volume, you face the below error message:

“Windows 2000 recognizes the partition you selected, but the partition is unformatted or damaged. To install Windows 2000 on this partition, setup must reformat it.”

When you boot your system to Microsoft Windows 2000 Recovery Console and attempt to use “dir” command to see the contents of hard drive volume, you may get the below error message:

“Directory of F:\

An error occurred during directory enumeration.”

When you apply ChkDsk utility on the Windows partition, the process completes successfully, but it can not detect any error, and also does not make any corrections. Although, ChkDsk does not detect any error, you can not access the volume or boot from it. The errors are not detected, even if you run Recovery Console command “chkdsk volume label: /p.”

Root of the problem

This behavior occurs because NTFS file system volume has damaged or invalid record in either $LogFile or $UsnJrnl file. These are critical files used by NTFS internally. ChkDsk can’t check integrity of these files.

Resolution

Format your Windows hard drive and reinstall operating system to fix this problem. However, this solution removes all hard drive partitions and creates need of Windows Partition Recovery.

You can quickly and effectively Recover Partition using advanced and powerful third-party Partition Recovery Software. These tools employ efficient scanning mechanisms to methodically scan entire hard drive and retrieve all lost, missing, corruption, or inaccessible Windows partitions.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a safe and easy to use application that recovers lost Windows partitions in all cases of partition loss. The software retrieves FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. It is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Is your Windows computer unbootable with a black screen? Are you unable to log into your computer and access data from it? This behavior is caused by missing or corrupt boot files of Microsoft Windows operating system. It does not allow you to log into your system and access data from your Windows hard drive. In such circumstances, you may lose your valuable data. In order to get your valuable data back in such cases, Windows Recovery becomes essential.

In particular, the black screen occurs when you reboot a Windows x86-based system. The system stops responding with an empty black screen just after the POST (Power-On Self Test). This problem occurs every time when you attempt to reboot your Windows computer.

What Causes Black Screen in Microsoft Windows?

You may come across this behavior if the below conditions are true:

•    The MBR (Master Boot Record) is corrupt.

•    Corrupted Partition Table.

•    NTLDR (NT Loader) is corrupt.

•    Windows boot sector is damaged.

•    Fragmented MFT if your boot partition is NTFS.

In such cases, system refuses to boot up. To retrieve your lost data, Recover Windows data by solving this problem.

How to Solve Black Screen in Microsoft Windows?

Try out the following things to work around this issue:

•    Create Windows boot disk and start your system from it. If you are able to boot the system, immediately backup all your important data.

•    Scan your Windows hard drive using a latest anti-virus software to check whether the hard drive is infected by viruses or not.

•    Verify that your computer has a valid MBR. Boot your system from a virus-free DOS v5.0 boot disk with the FDISK on it. Execute “FDISK /MBR” command.

•    Repair Windows installation by booting the system from Boot disk. Select “Inspect Boot Sector” and “Restore Startup Environment” options. It helps you to fix damaged boot sector.

If none of the above methods work, hard drive formatting and operating system reinstallation is the only option to replace the damaged boot and system files. However, it removes all the data from your Windows hard drive, causing serious data loss.

At this point, Windows Partition Recovery Software come for your help. They employ high-end scanning algorithms to systematically scan entire Windows hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible data from it. They enable easy, fast, and secure Partition Recovery in all cases of data loss.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recover lost files, folders, and partitions from Windows hard drive. It retrieves data from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software is usable with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.