Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery

Today people do all their work in files, or with files, irrespective of which computer they use, or which operating system they have. Every vital data is saved in files. Photographers, sitcom makers, and even film makers save all their important work in files. Infact, MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange emails are saved in files. Such is the significance of files that they have become the epicenter of our lives. And that is why, loss or deletion of even one file can mean a major problem in the life of the person, or people who need it, or use it. Having realized this, people have started keeping backup of their crucial files. These backups help user in effective file recovery.

But accidents do happen, and mostly when least expected, despite all the precautions, and impact everybody greatly. At times, when we most need something, we find, we do not have access to it, and we have to face the consequences of its loss. The same is the case with backup. Absence of backup can spell disaster for a user. That is why, these situations call for a file recovery software. Other situations that need software to recover data include absence or corruption of backup file and the backup not being updated.

These software are sophisticated programs that run on a machine to extract all the data that was deleted, but has not been overwritten. The concept behind these software is that when the files are deleted, it is only their index entry that has been deleted and the area where they were saved still have the files intact. When we run these software, they recover the files from that location. Though this is the basic concept behind file recovery, not all software, have hundred percent performance. A tool which has been developed by expert programmers is far more effective than a software developed by other competent developers.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a comprehensive tool that recovers files from NTFS, NTFS5, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT and exFAT file system volumes. This efficient file recovery software is compatible with Windows 7.0, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000, and is capable of recovering more than 185 file formats.

In the Windows system, a paging file is a dynamic file that stores extra data from the RAM (Random Access Memory). It us used when some extra memory is needed to perform some urgent task. However, when this file gets damaged or goes missing then you may face some critical problems even while accessing your system. For such problems, there are few workarounds that can be used to restore normalcy failing which you should use a professional file recovery software to perform file recovery of the inaccessible data.

Think of a situation wherein you have started your Windows 2000 system. After starting the system, it passes the boot phase after which you provide your login credentials. The ‘Loading your personal settings’ dialog box is displayed, which is followed by ‘Saving your settings’ dialog box. However, to your surprise, the desktop does not get displayed. Rather the ‘Welcome to Windows’ logon screen is shown again.

In addition, if the paging file of the operating system is placed in the boot partition, then you may also receive the following error message before the ‘Welcome to Windows’ logon screen is displayed:

“[Limited Virtual Memory]
Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small.”

Cause:
There could be the following reasons for the given erroneous situation:
The Windows 2000 boot partition drive letter is not the same as the one that was assigned during the Windows 2000 setup.
The system/boot mirror has cracked because of some miscellaneous reasons, and then it tries to boot to the old shadow drive when it finds the original primary drive is unable to boot.

Resolution:
You can perform either of the following methods to resolve this situation. However, you should be careful as some of the methods involve modifying the system registries.
You should remove the cloned hard disk, if any, that is appended to the system. It is quite possible that this problem started happening after adding the cloned hard disks. Restart the system.
If your system is in a network, then access it using any other system and open Registry Editor and change the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon\Userinit:Reg_SZ:C:\WINNT\system32\userinit.exe
To:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon\Userinit:Reg_SZ:userinit.exe

If the system access is still unavailable even after using these methods, then you have the option of using a third-party file recovery software. These file recovery tools are based on highly sophisticated mechanisms that help in retrieving all the data without any loss.

One of the best file recovery tools in the data recovery field is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery that extracts lost or inaccessible files from Windows systems. Supporting various file systems like FAT, exFAT, and NTFS, this file recovery software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

With increase in computer usage, we have realized that our data is more vulnerable to loss and apart from third-party file recovery software, there comes some file recovery utilities with our PC itself. With these tools available, many of us even witnessed that we have become less cautious about data loss, unless it is an important file that may cost us huge financial setback or may put our job on stake. However, this easy going attitude makes us use the recovery utility without properly knowing about it and the trouble aggravates.

Let us discuss a real life scenario. An user has an HP system and while updating some of his audio/video ripping software, it showed some error. Then, it won’t work at all, even the files he had saved with the earlier version did not open. The user thought, he was good with the previous version and in order to recover his lost files, in a haste, ran the system recovery that usually comes with the HP system.

After running the system recovery utility, the user did not find any of his files, folders, documents in the volume. Under more panic, the user looked for a recovery point, but could not find any. All his data has been lost and the situation demands a third-party file recovery software, that can bring back the same.

Cause:
The cause behind the above loss is that on running, HP system recovery reformats the particular partition or volume and restores that to the the original system image. In this process, you tend to lose all your data only to recover it from the latest backup.

However, if backup is not available, then you have to take the help of any efficient file recovery software to recover and restore the lost data as the data is not actually lost permanently.

These file recovery software locate the formatted/deleted files by scanning the ‘freed’ area of the storage media and with calculated programs inside, they find the entries of the files that were present earlier. Then comparing both the utilities, recover the lost data. These software are totally stress free in usage as they come with step to step instructions.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is one of the reliable file recovery software from the leading data recovery company, Stellar. It is a complete file recovery utility, supporting around 185 file types and capability to recover lost, deleted or formatted files from Windows 7.0, Vista, XP, 2000 and 2003.

I am sure that you may have faced problems, like me, while booting your Windows XP system. This is a very prevalent situation that may appear due to incorrect boot settings or hardware incompatibility. If not corrected, then this problem can result in making the valuable data inaccessible, which means huge data loss. To overcome such problems, you can check the booting preferences in the BIOS section including other methods. Having said that, if the system still does not boot then the services of a file recovery software should be used.

For instance, when you start your Windows XP system, it fails to start. An error message is displayed in this regard, that is:

“Non-system disk or disk error
Replace and strike any key when ready”

Cause:
Such scenarios can appear when there are no boot files present in the storage media assigned as the boot device. In such cases, the boot device can either be a floppy disk, a CD ROM, a DVD, or a hard drive disk.

Resolution:
To bring normalcy in the booting pattern of your system, you should perform either or all of the following methods.
You should take out the non-system disk from the booting device. For instance, there may be a floppy in the floppy drive or a CD in the CD-ROM drive.
Modify the booting preferences of your computer. This can be done using the BIOS section before the startup. You should select a booting device that has got the boot files installed.
If you are not using any removable device and use a hard disk instead, then you should ensure to install a bootable operating system on the hard drive.

Restart the system once you have performed the aforementioned methods. It should be able to start perfectly.

However, if you look closely at the last method it suggests to install a fresh copy of Windows XP, which can overwrite the existing data. And you would lose the valuable data in the process, which is not a desirable proposition at all. Hence, to recover the trapped data without any data loss, there is a requirement of using the services of a third-party file recovery software. These file recovery tools are packaged with a Boot CD that proves very useful when the system does not boot.

When it comes the file recovery tools, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most trusted one, which recovers trapped or deleted files from inaccessible file systems. Recovering more than 185 types of files, this file recovery software is supported by FAT, NTFS, or exFAT file systems. In addition, this email recovery software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.

Since my own experience of file recovery, I had a false notion that file recovery softwares are just like any other means of making money by companies. You know, believe is something that we gather on the sands of experience. Be it the smallest ever incident, our own experience always counts over bigger demands of others.

My horrible experience of data loss:

In my family, we are five, my wife and three children- two daughters and a son. We used to go to sleep by 9.30, but it was Friday with two days off ahead. My youngest daughter is a bit naughty and that day, with her giggling, she persuaded me to play some online games on my office laptop. Sometimes later, she informed me that the laptop had hanged. It was almost 12 and I shut the lappy off with directly pressing the shutdown button.

Next morning, with a morning sip of coffee, I started my laptop and never have thought that it won’t start up normally. Yes, it was showing an unusual blue screen every time I start it. My head started drilling, all my office information lies with it. I don’t have much knowledge in computer internals, neither my circle is that much computer literate. I didn’t even think of anything and called one of my colleague who lives beside me .

He immediately drop in and without finding any solution, we started the file recovery operation by our selves. We put the XP CD and tried to repair. But, without sufficient idea over the same and in haste, we formatted the laptop making a fresh installation. I got a shy of relief as the laptop started well, but at the very moment, I almost fainted to discover, all my data gone.

The Solution:

Then, my colleague called someone and told me about a file recovery software called Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery 4.0. Without any option left, I purchased the software and started as per the instructions. Though I was new to these kind of softwares, I didn’t face any difficulty in the process. First of all, it showed all my files, that gave me a bit of confidence and after an hour or two, I got back all of them as they were saved. Thanks a lot to the technology and this file recovery software.

File recovery is a process of recovering your lost files under accidental file deletion, file system corruption, virus infection, formatting of hard disk or due to any physical damage to the hard drive. All these scenarios of file loss are quite prevalent in our day to day computer activity, hence, file recovery software has a significant role in bringing back our lost data and saving us many bucks.

Hard drives, external hard drives and USB drives are the major storage media that store much of your valuable data in bulk. Any instance of data loss can be horrible as your precious data or even your whole business is on a stake.

Scenario:

You tried to save a file in your hard disk or to any of your external USB drive under Windows Vista operating system and end up getting an error message that didn’t let you save the file. The error message may read as follows:
“X:\Folder\FileName You don’t have permission to save in this location. Contact the administrator to obtain permission. Would you like to save in the Documents folder instead?”
Or
“Access to X:\Folder\FileName was denied.”

Cause:
The hard disk or the USB device has been formatted with the previous version of Windows NTFS file system.

Resolution:
Follow the following steps in order to resolve the above issue of saving a file:
In My Computer, chose the drive, right-click on it and click Format.
If it asks for any administrative password, then, provide the same.
Then, you need to select the NTFS file system from the list.
Click on START to initiate the formatting process.
Finally, close the formatting dialog box.

In order to solve the issue, you have to format the drive with the latest version of Windows NTFS file system. Formatting  the device will erase all the data from the drive and to recover them, you have to take the help of a good and effective  file Recovery Software. These file recovery utilities come with powerful scanning algorithms to recover and restore all your lost data. Apart from this, these softwares are very general in terms of functionality and does not even demand any technical expertise.

Among many available products of file recovery, Stellar offers an advanced and efficient file recovery software in the name of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. The software   supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems and can recover any lost, deleted or formatted file from Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 with ease.

Is your NTFS file system partition missing after you deleted a FAT partition using Fdisk utility? Are you unable to see and access NTFS file system partition on a dual-boot Windows computer? Well, this behavior may occur due to resource conflicts or side-effects of some Windows tools. It renders your Windows hard drive partitions unusable and stored files inaccessible. This behavior of Windows operating system leads to critical file loss situations and requires Windows file recovery to be fixed, if there is no valid backup in place.

When you boot Microsoft Windows XP computer in dual-boot configuration with Windows 98 or Windows 95, use Fdisk utility for deleting a hard drive partition using FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, and reboot MS Windows XP, when the logical drives are no longer available in Logical Disk Manager in MS Windows XP.

For instance, you may face this behavior when you do any of the below things:

You configured Windows computer as dual-boot between MS Windows XP and MS Windows 98/95 with FAT file system on primary partition.

In MS Windows XP operating system, you created two drives-
D:/ using the NTFS file system
E:/ using FAT file system
If you run the Fdisk utility, you can see only logical drives that use FAT file system (that has a volume label D from Fdisk however it is drive E in MS Windows XP)
If you try to remove the D drive, you remove NTFS file system partition instead.

Cause

This behavior occurs because Fdisk utility can’t recognize the NTFS file system partition as extended partition, and thus it removes NTFS file system partition when it appears before logical drive that is using FAT file system.

Resolution

In order to perform file recovery by fixing this issue, you need to use the Logical Disk Manager for making some necessary changes to the logical drives if you’ve logical drives that use both NTFS and FAT file systems. The Fdisk utility is not suitable for this configuration.

However, if you have already lost your files, you must go for deleted file recovery solutions to get your valuable Windows files back. The file recovery software offer safe and easy recovery in all file loss circumstances.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most trustworthy and powerful utility to safely recover all types of Windows files. It recovers lost, deleted, missing, or inaccessible files from exFAT, NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Is your Windows computer unbootable? Are you unable to access your critical files from Windows hard drive? Can’t you log into your Windows computer and use your computer? This problem occurs due to boot errors in Windows computer. Boot errors are usually caused by corrupt boot loader, master boot record, and other similar data structures. In such situations, you must format the hard drive to replace damaged data structures. But, formatting removes all the data from hard drive and require file recovery software to be sorted out.

In a practical scenario of boot issues in Microsoft Windows, you may come across any of the below errors after POST (Power On Self Test) operation, while booting your system:

• Invalid Boot.ini

• Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
  Windows\System32\Hal.dll

• PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
  Technical Information:
  STOP: 0×00000050 (0×80097004, 0×00000001, 0×80515103, 0×00000000).

• STOP 0×000000ED (0xaaaaaaaa,0xbbbbbbbb,0xcccccccc,0xdddddddd)
  UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

• File: \Boot\BCD
  Status: 0xc0000034
  Info: The Windows Boot Configuration Data file is missing required information

• BOOT: Couldn’t find NTLDR Please insert another disk.

• Error Opening NTDETECT Press any key to continue

After you get any of the above error messages, boot process gets halted. It occurs every time you try to boot the system. In such situations, you need to find out the cause of boot issues and fix it through file recovery solutions.

Root of the problem

The boot problems are usually caused due to missing, corrupt, or damaged system data structures or operating system. These data structures including boot loader, file system, MBR (Master Boot Record), and system files. The problem may also occur due to corrupt or damaged boot partition.

Resolution

In order to sort out this behavior, you can try booting your system using boot CD of Microsoft Windows operating system. Get into Windows Recovery Console and replace the damaged files with new one.

If it does not help, you need to format your Windows hard drive, reinstall operating system, and then restore data from current backup. If backup is not available, file recovery software become need of hour.

The file recovery applications are particularly designed to thoroughly scan the affected drive and extract all lost files from it. They come equipped with simple graphical user interface to offer easy recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best data recovery software ever made to recover all types of lost files. The software successfully recovers files from NTFS, NTFS5, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. It is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Are you getting STOP error while accessing files from Windows XP operating system-based hard drive after upgrading to Windows XP? Are you unable to access files from hard drive? Well, this behavior may occur due system or operating system related problems. It prevents you from booting your system properly and access files from Windows hard drive. The problem leads to severe file loss situations, if you are unable to fix it and do not have valid backup of files. At this stage, file recovery is required to extract inaccessible, lost, or missing Windows files.

When you try to boot your Windows XP computer or while installing Windows XP, you may come across the below Stop error:

“Stop: 0×0000000A (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
*** Address x has base at x – filename”

In the above error, every parameter is a hexadecimal value, which denotes a particular problem:

• Parameter 1 - Incorrectly referenced memory address.

• Parameter 2 – The internal request level (IRQL) is required for accessing the memory.

• Parameter 3 – Type of memory access, where 1 is write and 0 is read operation.

• Parameter 4 - Address of an instruction, which referenced address in the parameter 1.

For Instance, the message may look like the following one:

STOP 0×0000000A (0xBFD14AAC, 0×000000FF, 0×00000000, 0×8000F67C)
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
***Address 8000f67c has base at 80001000 - hal.dll

After the above errors, you can not boot your system and access files. To retrieve inaccessible files in such cases, you must find out the root of this behavior and then carry out Windows file recovery by sorting it out.

Cause

This problem may occur due to incompatible device driver, incompatible software, missing or corrupt system files, corrupt operating system, and missing hard drive data structures.

Resolution

You can try out any of the below methods to work around the behavior:

• Rollback driver failure.

• Reinstall device drivers.

• Restore Windows operating system.

• Use Windows Recovery Console and repair corrupt data structures.

• Format the hard drive and reinstall Windows XP operating system.

You should format the hard drive as a last resort only. It removes all the files from hard drive and cause severe problems. In such cases, file recovery software are required to recover lost, deleted, missing, and inaccessible Windows files. Such file recovery tools offer easy recovery through interactive user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced and effective utility to recover lost files in all cases. It supports recovery from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. The software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Are you not able to log into your system? Is this happening even though you are using the correct credentials? If the answer to these questions is YES, then there are chances that there are some problems with the Windows Registry. It could happen because of many reasons such as virus infections, power outages, corrupt operating system, etc. In such cases, you can perform in-place methods to recover the system. If you are not able to do so, then you should use a third-party file recovery software to perform file recovery of the inaccessible data.

Consider a scenario wherein you are using Windows Server 2003 at your office. When you start the system, you provide the user name and password and press the Enter key to enter the system. However, you are unable to log-into the system despite entering correct username and password. In addition, you try to enter the system via Safe Mode as well but still not able to log-in.

Cause:

This erroneous situation occurs when the Winlogon service attempts to load the Windows default shell (explorer.exe) and user shell (userinit.exe) from registry. However, the service is unable to find the following registry as it is missing or corrupted.

“HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon”

Resolution:

To access the system again, you should modify the values of the specific registry. To do this, you should perform the following steps:

• Start and log on to another system in the network.

• Click Start | Run and type Regedit and press the Enter key.

• Select the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry.

• Click File | Connect Remote Registry.

• Enter the computer name, that is, your system name.

• Browse to the following location in registry of the infected computer

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

• Edit the following two values as shown:

Shell=explorer.exe

Userinit = x:\windows\system32\userinit.exe

• Exit Registry.

• Restart the problem computer. Now, you would be able to successfully log into the computer.

However, if you are still not able to access the computer then you should reinstall the operating system. But, that would mean losing the valuable data. In such cases, you should use a third-party file recovery software to recover the inaccessible data. Such file recovery tools are read-only in nature that do not overwrite the existing data while scanning the storage media.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a file recovery software that enables you to recover lost, deleted, or formatted files and folders from inaccessible drives. This file recovery utility recovers data from various file systems such as FAT, NTFS, and exFAT. It is designed to recover more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard drives, pen drives, iPods, etc. This file recovery tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.