Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery

File system is a pattern in which data is stored inside a computer system. The file system of the computer helps the operating system to store, organize, manipulate and retrieve the stored data. In case of Windows operating system, NTFS or the ‘New Technology File System’ has been designed over the FAT and HPFS file system. NTFS has been developed with advanced data structure that has enhanced the performance, reliability, disk space utilization and added several other things such as, security access control lists and file system journaling. However, data loss can happen in case of NTFS based file system volumes and only through any partition recovery software, you can be able to recover back your lost data.

For the above discussed benefits, most of the users use NTFS file system. It is the default file system with Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Furthermore, once you are upgrading your operating system, the new OS will ask you to change your file system to NTFS, if it is not.

Due to all these things, NTFS file system is quite widely used by the new users as well as the older ones who have recently updated their operating system. However, like any other file system, it can get corrupted or lost by the following reasons:

•    Virus Attack
•    Malware intrusion
•    Electric power surge
•    Operating system malfunction
•    Any hardware/software malfunction etc.

All the above reasons lead to the file system corruption and the partition linked to the affected file system eventually gets lost, inaccessible. As, we tend to store many memorable pictures, audio files, video files, important business documents in their specified partitions, loss or inaccessibility of them can cause huge ripples in our personal as well as professional life.

Problems with your NTFS file system based partition can be resolved by formatting the partition and making a fresh installation. However, the data that is inside the partition is more important and with formatting, all the data will get erased. Though, you can restore the data from the backup, sometimes, situations become so worse that you may not have taken backup recently, can get problems with your backup server or even failed to restore from backup due to any unsolvable reason. Under all such cases, your valuable data can only be recovered by NTFS partition recovery software.

These partition recovery utilities are developed with many powerful algorithms, which run internally to locate the lost partitions and restore them with their integrity intact.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a awesome partition recovery utility that is capable of recovering your lost, deleted, formatted or inaccessible NTFS or FAT file system based partitions with ease. The utility is so rich in the user interface that it has overcome the painstaking process of recovery and can be easily used by almost anybody without much prior knowledge.

Microsoft Windows operating system incorporates various system utility tools to maintain the system and CHKDSK is one of them. In Windows, the CHKDSK runs in the command prompt and indeed a command that is meant to verify the integrity of the system by checking the health status of the hard disk, floppy disk etc. CHKDSK, also can fix the logical file system related errors. While running, the tool closely interacts with the file structures and analyzes the whole disk directly. Hence, it is suggested that while running CHKDSK, it should never be disrupted in the middle, or else the system partition may fail to boot. The situation can be a serious one, as your valuable data in the hard disk remains inaccessible and you need to go for any partition recovery software to recover back your valuable data in the system partitions.

The above situation can happen as if a common instance, such as you have restarted your computer with Windows 7 operating system and the CHKDSK started running the disk check process. The process took a bit more time and you restarted your system or by any other means it is being restarted automatically. After this event, Windows 7 failed to boot with an error message, which suggests that the boot manager has failed to locate the Windows.

As one of the common instances, consider a situation when you restart your Windows 7 based computer when it is running the disk check using chkdsk utility. After this, you may observe that Windows 7 no longer boots giving an error message suggesting that Boot Manager cannot locate Windows.

If the troubled hard drive is attached to another Windows computer, the affected hard disk is detected as unknown by the Disk Management. Even, the disk space are specified as unallocated. Moreover, you may receive the following error messages:

“Bad Boot Sector”

OR

“No Partitions Found”

Cause:

The situation can signal that there is possible corruption to the partition table, as the system scanning process by CHKDSK is being interrupted systematically.

Resolution:

In order to resolve the issue, you need to boot your computer from the system installation disc. There after you need to press on the key ‘R’ to go to the recovery console and try to repair the installed Windows. If your system is still inaccessible, then you need to make fresh partitions and thereafter restore the data from the valid backup. However, if you failed to restore your data from the backup, there is another option, to recover your valuable data back, that is partition recovery software.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software is a valuable utility on the parts of all Windows users, who have lost their partition and thereby valuable data in it. This partition recovery software facilitates successful recovery of the deleted, lost or formatted data from any FAT, NTFS based Windows partitions irrespective of any data loss situation.

Working on a Windows system is very common and almost all users are well acquainted in dealing with common functionality based errors on Windows. However, while, chances are there that the error may lead to loss or inaccessibility of your valuable data in different file system based partitions in the system hard disk, the particular error becomes a more serious one. Moreover critical file system corruption errors resulting in partition loss or inaccessibility, are never easy to handle on the parts of normal users. Such situations demand more sophisticated technology, such as partition recovery to recover back the data.

While attempting to open, rename or delete a file using any file manager or command prompt, an error message may pop-up leaving the data completely inaccessible. The error message may read any of of the following:

Error:

<drive>:\<folder> is not accessible.
OR
The file or directory is corrupt and non-readable.
OR
The file or directory \<folder> is corrupt and unreadable.
Please Run the Chkdsk utility.

Cause:

The reason behind the above errors may be a possible damage in the file, folder, file allocation table or in the file system index.

Resolution:

1.    Try repairing the damaged folder, file allocation table, file system index or the file itself using the command utility ‘Chkdsk’. Follow the below steps for the same:
2.    Click on the START button, and then click on RUN.
3.    Then type the command ‘chkdsk/f <drive> on the dialog box and press OK.

Note: Here, the drive represents the letter of the disk drive, in which the damaged particular file/folder/file system index exists. For a large hard disk, the process may range from several minutes to several hours.

It is most likely that such errors are resolved through repairing by ‘chkdsk’. However, sometimes, chkdsk with ‘/f’ option may result in data loss. Hence, if ‘chkdsk’ fails to resolve the errors or there is any further loss of data, then you have to recover the same from the updated backup, absence of which leaves the only way to take the help of any partition recovery software.

Partition recovery software are in a way innovative inventions to check for the lost or damaged partitions and thereby recover the data from them. The software have Windows like user interfaces and moreover, come with instructions to complete the recovery process successfully.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a risk free partition recovery software that enable the users to recover back missing, lost, damaged or inaccessible FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and VFAT based file system volumes.

Microsoft Windows XP is a highly reliant operating system that is widely used in homes and small and large  businesses. When Windows XP starts, it checks a large number of files for integrity. These files include, DLL files (dynamic-link libraries) and driver files. The various DLL files include Ntdll, Kernel, Shell, User, Graphics Device Interface (GDI), Crtdll, and many more. And if you install an inappropriate device driver, or one of your DLL files is missing or corrupt, then Windows XP halts, while giving an error message. This leaves you with no option but to opt for Partition Recovery methods to get your files and data back.

These atrocious messages may be one of the following, and generally accompany a blue screen (BSOD),

STOP: 0xC0000221 STATUS_IMAGE_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH
Path\File_name

Or,

STOP: C0000221 unknown hard error
Path\File_name

Or,

STOP: 0xC0000221 unknown hard error
C:\Winnt\System32\Ntdll.dll (or another specific file or driver)

Irrespective of which of the above stated error message flashes on your screen,  you either have a problem with the hardware (in which case all connections will have to be checked), or network (which calls for checking of the cabling of the hard drive), or maybe the specified file is corrupt (and will have to be replaced by a good copy of it). If all else fails, then the only thing that can save the day is a clean reinstall of Windows XP. But reinstallation of the operating system, would mean that you will lose all the data saved on your partition. But, with the help of backups, it is possible to recover Windows partition.

However, if a user doesn’t have a backup, then it is a difficult situation, as it makes partition recovery an impossible task. To aid users in such situations, a number of reliable partition recovery tools are available on the internet. These software apply complex recovery algorithms to recover data from every sector of the hard drive. Designed to have simple graphical user interface, and with detailed documentation, these tools can help a user to recoup all the data that has been lost, irrespective of the reason of its loss.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a comprehensive software that can recover Windows partition data irrespective of whether they have been formatted with FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, exFAT, NTFS or NTFS5 file system. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000, this software supports recovery of more than 185 different file types. With read-only conduct, and various recovery options, including, file recovery, disk cloning, RAW file recovery, disk imaging, apart from partition recovery, this tool is highly efficient.

In numerous occasions, you may have found that your Windows XP system is unable to boot and hangs showing a black screen. Such instances may cause if some critical system file, responsible for booting, is missing or damaged. These problems generally occur due to different reasons like virus infections, corrupt partition tables, unplanned system shutdown, etc. If all of your corrective methods fail, then I would suggest advise you to employ a professional partition recovery software to recover Windows partition.

Consider a scenario in which you start your Windows XP system, which duly completes the POST (Power On Self Test), but hangs after that displaying an empty and black screen. No error message is displayed in this case.

Cause:
For the discussed case, the following causes could be responsible:
Some of the system files are missing or damaged. Because of this, these files do not load when the boot sequence of the system is selected during startup. These files are:
MBR (Master Boot Record)
NTLDR files
Boot sector
Partition tables
It could be possible that you are having a removable storage device in your computer when you start the computer. Because it may be possible that you have set the preferences in the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) section to boot from the media.

Resolution:
You should perform the following options to restore normalcy in the booting process of your Windows XP system:
Resolve the boot components that do not load: You should restore the booting files to recover Windows partition using the following steps:
Restart the system in Safe Mode.
Check ‘Disk Management’ option to see if the partitions are alright.
Run an updated antivirus program.
Repair MBR in the Recovery Console using the ‘fixmbr’ command. If it is a FAT-based partition, then first use the ‘fixboot’ command.
Repair Windows installation: If you have the Windows XP Setup CD, then you should try to perform an parallel installation to repair the current Windows installation. However, you should ensure that you backup all the data properly.
Remove the removable media, if any: You should check if any removable media is not present in the respective disk drives.

If the system does not start even after using these techniques, then there is a need to look for other options. One such options is to use a third-party Windows partition recovery software. These tools are easy to use and perform partition recovery safely.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best partition recovery software that rescues trapped data from FAT, exFAT, and NTFS file systems. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000, this software recovers partition from various storage media.

MFT, the acronym stands for Master File Table. MFT stores information about every file and directory in an NTFS file system or volume. Windows file system reserves first 16 records of MFT, which is explicitly known as ‘meta data’, the area to store special information about files. The design of MFT increases the efficiency of the file system in terms of faster accessing of files but it is more important with respect to the functioning of the whole process. Hence, any damage to MFT results in the inaccessibility of the hard drive and thereby you may require any partition recovery mechanism to recover the inaccessible files.

Now, let us discuss MFT in a bit detail. In general, MFT is more like a relational database table, which stores various attributes of all the files in the drive. In fact, it is more than just a list that stores the used and free clusters, moreover it is the starting point of the storage area and the central management feature of an NTFS volume.

The first record of the MFT stores information about the the MFT itself, followed by the mirror record of MFT. Once, the first MFT record gets corrupt, file system reads second record that is of the MFT mirror to get the information. These first 2 records are exactly the same. There is a third entry of MFT, that is the log file, which is used for file recovery purposes. The records, 16^th onwards, stores the information about every file and folder on the drive partition.

From the number of entries of the MFT and the way data is accessed taking information from MFT tells us about the importance of it. Therefore, any type of damage to the MFT due to any reason has a sharp impact on the accessibility of the data in the drive. MFT damage may result in the inaccessibility of the hard drive and though it is equally important to rectify the damaged MFT it is more important to recover the data first. For the recovery, you need any partition recovery software.

Partition recovery is the process of retrieving your lost data after extracting the logical partitions from the physical hard drive. These partition recovery software can recover your valuable data from any instances of data loss such as: MFT corruption, file system damage, virus infection, operating system malfunction, deletion or formatting of hard drive/partition. Apart from their efficient recovery techniques, their interactive interface is an added plus for non-technical users.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one of the powerful partition recovery softwares in the recent market which is capable of recovering all your FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and VFAT file system partitions. This partition recovery utility has an added feature is that it comes with a boot CD, that can boot Windows OS on an non-booting Windows system. It’s compatibility to 185 mostly used file formats and support to Microsoft Windows Vista, 2003, XP and 2000 makes it a really worthy choice.

In Windows Vista and later versions of Windows operating systems, the booting process is controlled by the bootmgr file. This file targets the BCD (Boot Configuration Data) store to get the list of operating systems and load the most suitable one. Also, this BCD store stores the information of the boot time configuration data and its well being is very significant for the boot precess. Therefore, when this file gets corrupt the system is unable to start as the active partition cannot be located. You can utilize in-house Windows tools like bootrec.exe to recover Windows partition. If that does not help, then I would suggest to use a third-party partition recovery software to do the needful.

Talking of similar instances, consider you are trying to start your Windows Vista system but fail to do so at the booting phase.

Cause:
These situations can appear when either of the following boot components of Windows Vista system are corrupt:
Master boot record (MBR)
A boot sector
A Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store

Resolution:
To rectify this problem, you should try out the following steps:
Insert the Windows Vista installation DVD in the DVD-ROM drive and restart the computer.
Press any key when the ‘Press any key to start’ prompt is displayed.
Select the following entries:
Language
Date and time
Currency
Keyboard or input method
Click Next, when done.
Click the ‘Repair your computer’ button.
Select the operating system that is to be repaired.
Click Next.
Click ‘Command Prompt’ in the System Recovery Option dialog box. The Command Prompt is displayed.
In the Command Prompt, enter ‘Bootrec.exe’ and press the Enter key.
Here, you can use the following options:
/FixMbr
/FixBoot
/ScanOs
/RebuildBcd

Using the aforementioned options of the Bootrec.exe tool, you will be able to repair the booting components of Windows Vista. Having said that, there may be few instances when the problem does not get solved using these options. In such cases, partition recovery becomes very important otherwise all your data could be  lost forever. For such uses, a good partition recovery software comes to your rescue as it can easily recover partitions corrupted because of any reason.

Of all the partition recovery tools, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one of the best partition recovery software around. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000, this Windows partition recovery software supports recovery from FAT, NTFS, or exFAT file systems. Also, this email recovery software is able to restore more than 185 file types from various kinds of storage media.

DiskPart is a command line utility by Microsoft Windows that enables you to manage disks, partitions or volume by using scripts or direct input of commands. Functionalities of DiskPart includes creation of partition of a disk, setting the partition active and formatting of the partitions. As DiskPart enables explicit control over the partitions and volumes, many times, incautious usage of it results in data loss demanding any partition recovery software.

Below are some of the cases, where incautious use of DiskPart causes data loss or inaccessibility:

DiskPart converts a basic disk to a dynamic disk. Before using DiskPart, you must ensure that the disk must be empty or contains either primary partition or logical volume to avoid loss of data. Furthermore, the basic disks containing fault-tolerant disk driver (FtDisk), must be converted using Disk manager rather than DiskPart before upgrading, or else, these situations will lead to data loss.

If the hard disk has already been upgraded to dynamic disk, then usage of DiskPart command can damage the partition table leading to data loss and the need of partition recovery becomes inevitable.

DiskPart verifies the particular partition that is is capable of containing an operating system’s startup files. If you mistakenly mark a partition as active and it does not contain the operating system’s startup files, your computer won’t start leaving the data inaccessible.

On basic disks, the partitions are deleted  through focus. Thus incorrect choosing of partition focus and thereby deletion causes data loss. Partitions lost in this way can only be recovered using any good partition recovery software.

Be extremely careful while using the ‘Create Partition msr’ command by DiskPart as it creates  Microsoft reserved partitions as the first partition. However, GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks require a particular partition layout and creating Microsoft reserved partitions as the first partition could cause the disk to become unreadable resulting in data loss.

All these cases of data inaccessibility or loss necessitate partition recovery as those partitions contain your valuable data. Furthermore, in the above cases, when backup is not available or failed to restore the data due to any erroneous reason, use of partition recovery software to get back your data is the only option left.

These Partition Recovery tools are safe and are easy to use without the need of any prior technical knowledge. The application use a certain set of scanning algorithms which help extracting lost information.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one of the reliable and effective Partition Recovery software to recover lost, corrupted or inaccessible partition. This software offers risk free recovery through effective scanning and supports all FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 file systems.

Disk partitioning is a common practice of computer users to divide the storage space of the hard disk and accordingly store data of different categories into them. The purpose behind making different partitions in the system also includes installation of different operating systems into it. Sometimes, a partition gets corrupted because of file system corruption, operating system malfunctioning, virus intrusion or even due to re-sizing of the partition area. All these situations lead to the inaccessibility of the data stored in that particular partition of the hard drive. In order to get your data back, you need to restore the data from the latest backup after rectifying the issues related to partition corruption. However, if you have not taken the backup or the backup process failed to restore the data, then only through one way, you can retrieve your data back, that is by using any good partition recovery software.

Let’s take a real life scenario:
These days, tools are available for making partitions to your existing hard drive partition without even losing the stored data. Take a similar scenario that you tried some application to re-size your old hard drive partition and during the process, there is a sharp power outage. Your system gets shutdown and you get the unusual blue screen with a error message.
The Error message reads like:

“A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to our computer”

Explanation:
The system becomes stops booting with the Blue Screen Of Death and the error message on the screen. Hence, all your data in the hard drive becomes inaccessible.

Cause:
This is an internal problem with Windows operating system that the partition gets corrupted if the partitioning process is being carried out by a third party tool and is interrupted in the middle.

Resolution:
Start your computer and press the F8 key to go to the Windows advanced menu.
When Windows advanced options menu appears, select Last Known Good Configuration (your most recent settings that worked), and then press ENTER.
Try to disable your anti-virus or backup utilities and then, boot from the install CD.
Use CHKDSK command to check and repair the hard drive corruption.

If the above measures fail to resolve the issue, you need recreate all the hard drive partitions by reformatting the system. Reformatting will erase all the data in the hard drive partitions and in such circumstances, you have to use any effective Partition Recovery application to recover and restore your lost data. Such Partition Recovery applications incorporate advanced and effective scanning algorithms with an interactive graphical user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one of the trust worthy Partition Recovery Software available in the market. This application supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and recovers your lost or inaccessible data form any hard drive make/model.

It is like a regular custom for computer users to make different partitions to their hard disks and keep their data categorically into them. Apart from this, users also install different operating systems into different partitions. However, while booting an operating system from a particular partition, you may encounter some stop errors. These error messages pops up making the booting process cease and the partition in which the particular operating system is being installed, becomes inaccessible. In that situation, to access the saved data from the inaccessible partition, you need to follow certain steps of windows recovery and finally a clean installation of the operating system, if Windows recovery fails. With a clean installation of the operating system, all your data will be erased, hence, you need to restore them from the latest backup. Real problem arises when you don’t have available backup or for any reason, the backup fails to restore your data. Then, every finger desperately point to any efficient Windows partition recovery software.

Let us discuss the scenario in a bit more detail. You have two partitions with two different OS installed into them. An error popped up and the booting process is halted. The error reads like:

“Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.”

Causes:

Foremost causes behind the above error message are:
boot.ini file is corrupt or missing or invalid.
Invalid partition path of Windows XP in boot.ini file
The Ntoskrnl.exe file is missing or damaged.

Resolution:

In order to resolve the above error and to access the data, following steps are to be followed:
Try running Windows Setup from the product CD shipped with your computer manufacturer.
Run “Recovery Console” by pressing ‘R’.
Choose the option to restore your system to previously saved configuration.

However, even after following the above measures you may not be able to recover Windows partition. Further you may encounter these following issues:

While running “Recovery Console”, a command prompt may come up without any login option.
While running the product CD, the installation can not be completed.
You may encounter an “Access Denied” error message while trying to access the Windows folder.

In the above scenario, to get rid of the error, you need to reinstall the operating system. As, a fresh installation of the operating system will delete all the data from the particular partition of the hard drive, you need to perform Partition Recovery. With a easy-to-use graphical use interface, Partition Recovery utilities have advanced and effective methods to completely recover and restore your data.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one of the best buy Partition Recovery Softwares which provides a smooth recovery of all your lost data from the inaccessible partition. This Partition Recovery Software is a powerful recovery tool with complete compatibility to Windows XP, Vista, 2003 and 2000, supporting more than 300 file types.