All Blog Posts Tagged 'recovery' (19)

How to Handle File Indexing Corruption In Microsoft Windows 7

File Indexing is an allegedly useful feature of Microsoft Windows operating system. It extracts critical information from files on hard disk and creates the “searchable keyword index” that Is used for making the file search more efficient. Using file indexing service, you can easily searching for a phrase, properly or word in a document, even without knowing name of the file that you want. In some situations, the indexing of file may get damaged and may access all your files inaccessible from Wi… Continue

Added by allensood on November 22, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Windows Partition Recovery to Resolve “Inaccessible Boot Device” Error

In Microsoft Windows operating system, STOP errors are quite common. They might occur either during the boot process or while working on the system. When a STOP error occurs at boot time, system can not boot up and thus you can not log into it to access hard drive partitions and stored data from them. This behavior Microsoft Windows renders all of your Windows partitions inaccessible and leads to partition loss like situations. At this point, you are required to opt for Partition Recovery soluti… Continue

Added by allensood on November 20, 2009 at 11:18pm — No Comments

Stop Error “0x0000C1F5” May Cause Partition loss in Windows Vista

Kernel is a critical component of a Windows NT-based operating system. It sits between Executive and HAL and offers multiprocessor synchronization, interrupt and thread scheduling and dispatching and execution dispatching and trap handling. This is also in-charge for initializing the device drivers on boot-up, which are required to get the Windows up and running. MS Windows uses kernel-mode drives that allows it to interact with the hardware resources. But in some situations, where some kernel… Continue

Added by allensood on November 17, 2009 at 11:15pm — 2 Comments

Improper Use of Fixmbr Command Might Damage Partition Table and Cause Partition Loss

MBR (Master Boot Record) is a significant component of Windows computer that enables your system to boot up. When it gets damaged, you can cure it using Fixmbr command in Windows XP and 2000. This is a Recovery Console Command in Windows, which rewrites whole code of MBR. MBR is actually a piece of code, which is stored in first sector of hard drive and executes every time when your system start. Improper use of Fixmbr command may damage the Partition Table. Damage to Partition Table might rende… Continue

Added by mnkstllr on November 17, 2009 at 2:25am — 2 Comments

Rectifying “:\ is not accessible” Error in Windows

In Microsoft Windows, sometimes all of your hard drive partitions, files and folders become unreadable or inaccessible. When you try to access the partition or files form your Windows hard drive, you encounter an error message that all the files are unreadable and inaccessible. You need to repair the hard drive to retrieve these files. This behavior of Microsoft Windows cause serious partition loss situations and need… Continue

Added by allensood on November 6, 2009 at 3:57am — No Comments

Windows XP Computer Hangs With Black Screen at Startup

When you attempt to start you Microsoft Windows XP- based computer, the system might appear to hang (stop responding) with a black, empty screen immediately after the POST (Power-On Self Test) operation completes. The situation occurs just before the MS Windows XP logo appears on your system's screen. This behavior of Microsoft Windows XP occurs every time when you boot your system and the system does not start. It renders all of your hard drive partitions and critical data inaccessible and cau… Continue

Added by allensood on November 3, 2009 at 10:51pm — 1 Comment

How to Recover Missing Windows System Files?

Microsoft Windows operating system contains a number of files, which work as the components of operating system. These files are specifically designed to perform a particular operation. Like NTLDR is responsible for loading the NT operating system. In case any of these files get damage or deleted due to any reason, operating system can not load and you can not get access of your hard drive partitions. This behavior cause serious partition loss situations in Windows and require Windows Partition… Continue

Added by allensood on November 2, 2009 at 11:20pm — No Comments

Partition Recovery When Windows Boot Record Gets Damaged

In Microsoft Windows computer, boot record is the most critical data structure that enables booting of your system and make your system usable. In some situations, when you start your Microsoft Windows computer, you might find some errors related to missing boot record. These errors prevent you from booting your system properly and access hard drive partitions. This behavior renders all of the hard drive partitions inaccessible and cause severe partition loss. In such critical circumstances, Win… Continue

Added by allensood on November 1, 2009 at 10:25pm — 1 Comment

SIS Partition Loss in Microsoft Windows 2003

In Microsoft Windows computers, SIS (Single-Instance Storage) is an ability of your system to store a copy of the content, which multiple computers or users share. This is a method of eliminating the data duplication and increase efficiency. In some situations, you might come across SIS partition loss situations after the SIS links, which were backed up on your computer that is running Microsoft Windows 2003 are restored on the another Windows system. This behavior of Microsoft Windows requires… Continue

Added by allensood on October 31, 2009 at 12:19am — No Comments

Partition Recovery When Disk Administrator Corrupts Windows Partitions

In Microsoft Windows, Disk Administrator is a useful tool that provides you a number of options to manage your hard drive. Using this feature, you can delete, shrink, format or merge hard drive partitions and assign drive letters. But in some cases, when it writes disk signatures to the disk partitions, the partitions may get damaged and you come across partition loss situations. In order to recover lost partitions in these cases, Partition Recovery through effective tools, is required. When yo… Continue

Added by allensood on October 27, 2009 at 11:23pm — 2 Comments

3 Easy Steps for Instant Partition Recovery in Windows

Losing the Windows hard drive partitions could seem very frustrating, specifically when your complete life and work routine depends upon your computer. In order to prevent loss of hard drive partitions and data and unnecessary stress, this is significant to retrieve lost partitions. This is possible using the Partition Recovery solutions that works in most of the partition loss situations. In Microsoft Windows operating system based computer, the partition denotes to different parts of the hard… Continue

Added by allensood on October 27, 2009 at 2:37am — No Comments

Improper Use of Bootcfg.exe Command May Cause Partition Loss in Windows

In Microsoft Windows, Bootcfg.exe is a command-line utility that is used to modify Boot.ini file. It has a function, which scan the hard drive of your computer and then add them to existing Boot.ini file or creates a new Boot.ini file if it doesn't exist. You can use Bootcfg.exe command for adding extra Boot.ini file parameters to new or existing entries. In case if you do an improper update in Boot.ini file using Bootcfg.exe tool, you might come across critical partition loss situations. In the… Continue

Added by allensood on October 23, 2009 at 11:37pm — No Comments

Resolving “One of your partitions is corrupted” Error in Microsoft Windows

CHKDSK (CheckDisk) is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows operating system, which ensures the file system integrity. It detects and fixes minor file system logical errors. The utility can also check hard drive for bad sectors and other physical errors. The chkdsk operation is performed when your system starts up. If any of your Windows partition is damaged, chkdsk detects it and shows corresponding warning messages. The chkdsk utility can not handle serious file system or partition corr… Continue

Added by allensood on October 22, 2009 at 11:51pm — 2 Comments

Windows 200 Setup Displays Non- existent Partitions

The hard disk storage space is allowed to be partitioned into maximum of four primary partitions. These primary partitions are defined by respective 16-byte entries that form the hard disk partition table. It is located in disk MBR (Master Boot Record). When you install Windows or any service pack on your computer hard disk, the setup checks disk partition table for consistency. If it finds any errors with the table, it extracts incorrect partition information and displays non-existent partitio… Continue

Added by allensood on September 30, 2009 at 11:54pm — No Comments

Error Installing Windows Media Center Extender on Windows XP

Windows Media Center Extenders are devices designed to connect to a Windows 7, Vista Premium or Ultimate or XP Media Center Edition based computer system via a network link. This allows the computer systems streamlining their functions to the device. To install the device on a Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 computer, it is required that the disk should not be a dynamic disk. If you desire to install the device on a dynamic disk, you must delete all the hard disk partitions and restore data… Continue

Added by allensood on September 29, 2009 at 12:44am — No Comments

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair v3.5 Released

Stellar Information Systems Limited - The masters in providing best data recovery and data protection solutions, announces the availability of Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair v3.5, the company's latest release of its first-rate PST repair solution. The update includes substantial new improvements in recovery abilities for Outlook contacts and calendar items. With new modes of repairing PST file, the software can recover d… Continue

Added by John Peter on September 23, 2009 at 2:24am — No Comments

How to Solve Low Disk Space Errors in Windows XP?

You might experience several disk space issues with your Windows based computer system. On occasion, you might observe Windows Explorer or Disk Management utility showing less amount of hard disk space, when actually the disk space is quite large. To deal with such problems, you might need to delete the Windows installation partition and use the current backup to restore lost data. Bur in case of any backup issues, you should use a third-party utility to Recover Windows Partition. For example,… Continue

Added by allensood on September 19, 2009 at 12:54am — 2 Comments

Data and File Recovery Freeware List

This is my latest data recovery tool list that I just updated. These recovery tools are licensed as freeware. So a blog is just the place to consolidate them all for everyone's use and to keep track of them. There should be something here to meet most needs. Have fun, happy learning. :) Recuva 1.27.419 Website: http://www.recuva.com/ Download link: http://www.recuva.com/download Operating systems supported: Windows 98, ME, NT, 2k, XP,Vista (no 64-bit available) PC Inspector 4.0 File Recovery W… Continue

Added by Greg De Santis on June 12, 2009 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

S.C. Governor Must Take Stimulus Funds

In a unanimous ruling handed down by the S.C. Supreme Court, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford must request the $700 million in federal stimulus money he had wanted to reject. The court says Sanford has a duty to execute the state budget, which includes provisions for using the funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Governor Sanford had contended that accepting the cash would make the state budget dependent on federal aid. He had said he would accept the money only if he could… Continue

Added by Raymond Mendoza on June 4, 2009 at 4:00pm — 12 Comments