Wednesday, September 2, 2009

File recovery when Windows Operating System becomes dead

OS (such as Microsoft Windows) is the most difficult component of a computer system that provides an interface between user and hardware. It is responsible for handling and coordinating the activities and sharing of resources of a computer. It assures proper working of all the applications and effective management and accessing of data. You can not run your computer system without O.S. In some conditions, the O.S may get damaged and you can not boot up your system. At this point, all of the files stored on your hard drive become inaccessible file loss situations occur. You need to go for Windows Data Recovery solutions to resolve this issue and get all of your valuable and mission critical files back.

In a practical scenario, when you boot up your system, the process might fail halfway and you come across any of the below given error messages:

  • Error loading operating system

  • Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: WINDOWSSYSTEM32CONFIGSYSTEM

  • ERROR_EA_FILE_CORRUPT The extended attribute file on the mounted file system is corrupt.

  • ERROR_BADDB The configuration registry database is corrupt

  • Missing operating system

  • Operating system not found

All of the above error messages indicate that your Windows operating system is either damaged or missing. This behavior of Windows OS might occur due to virus infection, file system corruption, improper system shutdown, registry file corruption and system metadata structure corruption. In such situations, it becomes extremely important to carry out Windows Recovery by resolving this issue.

In order to work around this issue, you need to format the hard drive and install a fresh copy of Windows O.S. Formatting is capable of resolving most of the disk related issues. But it also has a disadvantage that it removes all of the file stored on your hard drive.

To prevent this conditions, you need to go for Windows Partition Recovery Software that provides Boot DVD to recover data from Windows hard drive. These file recovery software are quite easy to use and recovers lost, missing and inaccessible files in most of the cases. Using Boot DVD of these software, you can directly boot your system and get into recovery options.