NTFS file system is made up of a number of critical objects and NTFS reparse point is one of them. It comes with NTFS 3.0 file system found in Microsoft Windows 2000 and later versions. It offers you the way to extend NTFS file system by adding additional information to directory entry, thus the file system could interpret how operating system would treat your data. In case if it gets damaged or come across any other problems, file system may become unusable. At this point, you can not access your hard drive partition and partition loss situations occurs. To retrieve lost Windows partitions, Partition Recovery solutions are required.
As a practical example, when you try to access file or partition on Microsoft Windows 2000 NTFS file system drive, you might encounter below error message:
“The file cannot be accessed by the system”
When you attempt to copy same file, you might come across another error message, which states:
“Error Copying file or folder
Cannot copy filename: The file cannot be accessed by the system.”
When you view the properties of file by right-clicking it, only General tab might be present there and all other tabs (such as Security, Summary, Custom, and Version tabs) might be missing, according to the file type. To perform Windows Partition Recovery in such cases, find out the cause of this problem and fix it.
Grounds of the issue
Microsoft Windows 2000 NTFS file system supports the reparse points, which could be used for extending the abilities of file systems. When reparse points are added to file, the NTFS $Symbolic_Link attribute stores unique TAG value, This value is associated with the filter driver or application. When application request to open the file, NTFS file system passes I/O request to correct filter driver, which is responsible for specific TAG.
The issue may also occur due to file system corruption that may happen due to virus infection, improper system shutdown and other such reasons.
Resolution
Follow below steps to fix this issue:
Uninstall the affected Filter Driver or application and reinstall them.
Format hard drive and reinstall operating system.
Formatting is a quite risky process as it removes all the hard drive partitions and need Partition Recovery Software to handle the situation. The Windows Partition Recovery applications are pretty easy and safe to use. They work in all partition loss situations.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery tool retrieves lost, missing and inaccessible data from all Windows-supported storage devices. The software supports recovery from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. It works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.