In Microsoft Windows operating system, you can divide your hard drive into various partitions for effective management of valuable data. Every Windows computer has at least one system or boot partition, which contains operating system to boot your computer from. Other partitions contain data and information. In case of corruption of any of these partitions, you may lose valuable data. This behavior causes severe partition loss, and requires Partition Recovery, if you do not have an updated backup in place.

Any damaged boot or data partition, which uses NTFS file system may cause “stop 0×24” error message while accessing it. When you face this error message while rebooting your computer or trying to run the Windows Recovery Console, you may not be able to determine the root of this issue using general diagnostic steps. Instead, you should go for the below method to handle NTFS partition corruption.

•    Turn off or disconnect data disks, which has NTFS file system partitions.

•    After identifying the problem disk, move your hard drive to other Microsoft Windows operating system-based computer, which is using FAT32 or FAT file system.

•    Use ChkDsk /f utility to detect and fix file system related problems.

Use Windows Recovery Console on Single Drive System:

If your system has only one NTFS file system partition and no other Windows disks or computers are available, you can start your system from Setup disk to run Chkdsk utility with Ntfs.sys driver disabled. Use the below steps to repair NTFS file system partition and Recover Partition using Recovery Console:

•    Start your system using Windows 98 startup disk, insert Windows installation disk into the drive.

•    Change CD_ROM:\Support\Bootdisk folder, and run Makebt32.exe or Makeboot.exe for creating Windows Setup disks.

•    Modify Txtsetup.sif file using Notepad.

•    Start the affected system using Setup disk. Press F10 key on welcome screen to enter Recovery Console.

•    Run ChkDsk /p command to repair damaged partition.

•    Quit Recovery Console and reboot your system.

If the above method does not work, you need to use Partition Recovery Software to recover corrupted or lost hard drive partitions. The applications use advanced scanning mechanisms to thoroughly scan the affected hard drive and extract all lost partitions from it.

The Windows Partition Recovery utilities do not demand sound and prior technical skills as they have interactive and simple graphical user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recovers corrupted, damaged, missing, deleted, or inaccessible Windows partitions. The software supports recovery of NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. It is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.