Sometimes when you reboot your computer, which is running Microsoft Windows Vista and a hard drive partition is damaged, your system stops responding and you see a black screen. Same problem occurs every time when you try to boot the system. This behavior of Windows Vista does not let you log into the system and renders all of your mission critical and valuable data inaccessible. Partition corruption results into partition loss situations and you need Windows Partition Recovery solutions for effective and easy handling of this grave situation.

In a practical scenario, you might come across any of the below symptoms while booting up your Windows Vista computer:

You get a blue screen and you can’t log into your system except in the Safe Mode, if:

You reboot your system.

You are using release version of MS Windows Vista and a hard drive partition is damaged.

Autochk.exe tool stops responding and it halt the reboot process. When you cancel Autochk.exe process, Windows lets you log into the system. It occurs if:

You system in running Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, a hard drive partition is damaged.

You reboot your system.

The Autochk.exe utility automatically attempts to detect and fix the hard drive damage, when you reboot your system from a damaged hard drive. If it manages to fix the corruption, you can log into the system or else your disk partition remain inaccessible. In order to gain access of damaged partitions, you need find out the cause of this problem to carry out Partition Recovery by sorting it out.

Cause

The above issue occurs as Autochk.exe tool uses varying criteria to identify hard drive corruption from criteria that NTFS file system uses. If NTFS marks the partition as damaged, Autochk.exe program can’t verify damage. Instead, the utility marks volume as clean and reboot the system. However, while rebooting, NTFS again marks partition as damaged. Thus, Autochk.exe run again. In this case, restart process hangs or you see a black screen.

Resolution

To solve this issue, download AIK (Automated Installation Kit) for Microsoft Windows Vista and create Windows PE (Windows Pre-installation Environment) 2.1 disk. Reboot your system using this disk and run chkdsk /f command for fixing disk corruption.

If this method cannot help you to solve the problem, go for Partition Recovery Software to get your data back and format the hard drive and reinstall Windows Vista to make your system functional. The Windows Partition Recovery applications perform extensive scan of hard drive using advanced scanning algorithms to ensure absolute recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery application retrieves lost, missing and inaccessible Windows partitions in most of the partition loss scenarios. It supports recovery of FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.