Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery

Have you accidentally deleted your valuable files from your Microsoft Windows based hard drive? Do you realize the importance of your significant files after you deleted the files permanently from your hard drive? Well, it is a common user mistake, which is a large factor of data loss. In such cases, an absolute backup of your valid and complete backup proves great help. In case, the backup is not updated or available at all, file recovery is the only way to sort out this behavior.

When you create a file in your computer and you save the file on your hard drive, a file system entry for the particular file is created. The file system index is used by operating system to locate and access files from hard drive. The file system entry of the file contains all file related information, such as file name, file type, file size, and file format.

When you remove any file from the hard drive, only the file system entry is removed. The disk space, occupied by the deleted file is declared as free and can be used to store new file. After deletion of file system entry, operating system can not locate and access the particular file and critical file loss situations.

When you simply delete a file from a Windows computer using ‘Delete’ button, the file is moved to ‘Recycle Bin’ folder and can be restored from there. However, if you remove a file from from Windows  hard drive using ‘Shift + Delete’ key combination, the file bypasses the Recycle Bin and deleted permanently.

Although, you can not restore the file from Recycle Bin folder after deleting it using Shift + Delete key combination, but the file is not deleted forever. The deleted files remains physically intact on the hard drive until it is overwritten by any other file.

In such situations, you can easily restore the data from backup and perform file recovery. However, if backup is not updated, the deleted files can be recovered easily using advanced and efficient third-party applications, called file recovery software.

The applications use high-end scanning mechanisms to carry out in-depth scan of entire hard drive and extract all lost files from it. Such file recovery software are incorporated with self-descriptive and interactive graphical user interface to offer easy recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced and efficient utility to safely recover lost, deleted, or missing Windows files. The software supports recovery from all NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Lot of times, we perform routine maintenance of our computer system by removing the not-so-required files and folders. Apart from getting our system free from such files, it also improves its performance as there are less files to use the valuable computer resources. However, there are several instances when you would have lost your valuable files and folders during such maintenance rituals. Such data loss scenarios can arise due to various reasons, such as virus infections, power outages, abrupt system shutdown, human errors, etc. You may think that these files, once deleted permanently, cannot be recovered. However, this is not so. Such files can be recovered using a third-party file recovery software.

Consider a scenario wherein you are going through your draft documents for the quarterly review in your organization. You are checking the files and shift-deleting the files that you do not require. However, during the process you also remove a couple of files that were actually needed for the presentation. When you realize that you have removed the required files, it was too late by then. You have heard that the permanently deleted files can be recovered. But how is this possible, you do not have any idea. Let me explain the secret of it all…

When a file is deleted, it is not deleted permanently as such. In fact, it very much remains physically in the system. Actually when it is deleted, only the pointer that points to the file in the file system is deleted. And the operating system marks that location as available so that other files can be saved on this location. This deleted file can well be recovered provided you do not play around with the files too much. That is, you should not create a new file in the system as it may occupy the same location that was occupied by the deleted file.

One precaution that you should take is to mark all critical files as Read-only. This way, you will be prompted before you deleted such files. However, as far as file recovery is concerned Windows does not provide any in-built solution to recover permanently deleted files. So, to recover the deleted files you should use a third-party file recovery software.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a file recovery software that enables you to recover lost, deleted, or formatted files from all instances of deletion. It is capable of recovering more than 185 different file types from various storage media such as hard disks, external hard drives, pen drives, iPods, etc. In addition, this file recovery software is capable of recovering permanently deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.

Microsoft Windows operating system allows you to divide your computer hard drive into various partitions, for effective management of your data and improve system performance. It is essential to format the hard drive partition using any file system. Windows supports NTFS (New Technology File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table) file systems. However, in some situations, the Windows hard drive becomes RAW if the file system gets damaged and you come across severe file loss situations. You can not retrieve your valuable data from the Windows hard drive in such situations and come across critical error messages. At this point of your, you must have a complete backup to restore files from. However, if backup is not available, file recovery software becomes need of hour.

In a practical scenario of this problem, you may find that your Windows hard drive partition behaves like RAW.

When you try to fix this problem using Chkdsk utility, you may come across the below error message:

“The volume X: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
The disk in drive X: is not formatted.
There was an error accessing drive X:. The disk is not formatted.”

At the same time, Chkdsk utility may refuse to work on the RAW drive and it gives you further error message stating:

“The type of the filesystem is RAW.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.”

Cause of the problem

File system organizes all the data on Windows hard drive. It creates an index of all the files on hard drive and operating system refers this index to locate and access the files. When the file system gets damaged, all these entries are lost and files do not remain organized any more. Thus, you lose access to all the files on your Windows hard drive.

Resolution

In order to fix the RAW hard drive, you need to format it and place a file system on it. However, formatting the hard drive is not a safe method from data point of view. It removes all the files from hard drive and cause serious file loss problems, which eventually needs file recovery to be sorted out.

Windows file recovery applications are capable of recovering lost or deleted files from Windows hard drive in all cases of file loss. The deleted file recovery tools are totally safe and easy to use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution to easily and effectively handle all file loss scenarios. The software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. It retrieves data from all NTFS5, NTFS, FAT 32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

In Microsoft Windows operating system, boot process is handled by various components, such as boot loader and Boot.ini file. The Boot.ini file contains boot configuration settings of Windows operating system. Sometimes, you may not be able to boot your Windows computer if your system use “multi()” syntax in Boot.ini file. The problem also occurs if first sector of boot partition is 4 GB or large. In such situations, you can not access the files stored on your Windows hard drive. This behavior leads to critical file loss situations and requires File recovery.

You may face any of the below error messages when you face this behavior of Microsoft Windows operating system:

“Boot record signature AA55 not found (25EB found) Windows NT could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows NT documentation about hardware disk

configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.”

Or

“Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: Windows NT Root\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe.”

In such circumstances, all your mission-critical files become completely inaccessible. In order to access your valuable files, you must find out the original cause of the issue and then perform Windows file recovery by resolving it.

Grounds of the problem:

You may come across this behavior of Windows operating system due to a miscalculation, which occurs during Windows boot sequence where Microsoft Windows operating system is trying to compute starting location of hard drive partition on which the operating system is installed. Issue may also occur if the file system of your Windows computer is corrupted.

Solution

You can sort out this problem and retrieve your lost Windows files, using any of the below solutions:

•    Install the latest service pack of Windows operating system.

•    Use “scsi()” syntax in place of “multi()” syntax in the Boot.ini file.

•    Format your hard drive and restore data from backup.

However, if the backup is not available, you need to use file recovery software to retrieve lost files. The applications are powerful enough to methodically scan entire hard drive and extract all inaccessible files. These file data recovery tools are totally safe and easy to use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive utility to retrieve lost files in all file loss situations. The software works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems. It recovers lost files from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

There are times when you try to boot your Windows Vista operating system and you receive a STOP error messages. Such error messages leave you in a frustrating position as you are unable to perform any functions while they flash on the screen. Moreover, the data saved in the hard drive also becomes inaccessible after their occurrence. While the reasons for the occurrence of such error messages could be many, the most common is DLL (Data Link Library) file corruption. To overcome such error message, Microsoft provides a hotfix solution.

This solution, although successful in most cases, can fall short in a few cases. In such situations, a Windows user needs to reinstall the operating system and restore data from an updated backup. But, this solution also fails when the user has forgot to create a backup or backup file itself has corrupted. To access data in such cases, the user needs to search for a third-party File Recovery Software.

Consider the underneath error message for deep analysis of the above situation:

“0×0000C1F5”

This error message appears when you boot your Windows Vista based system. All the files and folders saved in the hard drive become inaccessible after the above error message flashes on your screen.

Cause:

The above STOP error message appears when the CLFS.SYS (Common Log File System) does not fix $TxfLog.dll file.

Resolution:

To get past the above boot error message and to access the data saved in the hard drive, you will need to follow the below steps:

1.    Install the Hotfix solution provided by Microsoft.
2.    Once the installation is complete, restart your system.

However, if you encounter the same error message after re-booting your system, then you will need to follow the below steps:

1.    Perform a clean reinstall of Windows Vista operating system.
2.    Use a valid backup for restoration. In case the backup is unavailable, then you will need to use a commercial File Recovery application.

A third-party File Recovery application ensures complete recovery of every file and folder post re-installation. The hard drive recovery application does not require any prior data recovery experience to perform recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a safe File Recovery Software that performs recovery from a formatted hard drive. The original hard drive data, however, remains unaffected during recovery. Supported by Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000, the tool is compatible with NTFS, NTFS5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems.

Hard Drive serves as the main data storage media for Windows computers. It is a non-volatile storage device, which is considered

more stable and reliable than other storage media like CD, DVD, and storage tape. A Windows hard drive stores all your significant data, applications, and Windows operating system. However, in some situations, the hard drive may fail due to various reasons, and all of the files stored on platters’ surface become inaccessible. At this point of time, you come across file loss situations and require File Recovery to be sorted out.

As a practical instance of this hard drive failure and file loss problem, you may come across the below error message while trying to boot your Microsoft Windows XP operating system-based computer:

“Hard disk drive failure”

At this point, if you attempt to boot your system using boot disk of Microsoft Windows 98 operating system, and then try to access disk partition information with the help of Fdisk.exe (MS-DOS utility), another error message may be displayed:

“No fixed disk present”

After the occurrence of above error message, you can not get into your system and access stored files from Windows hard drive. To retrieve lost files in such cases, you are required to identify the actual cause of this behavior and then perform Windows File Recovery by sorting it out.

Grounds of the issue

The above problem may take place with a Windows XP-based computer if any of the following conditions are true:

•    Your Microsoft Windows XP hard drive is not properly installed.

•    The hard drive is not configured correctly in BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).

•    Hard disk drive is either corrupted or damaged.

•    File system is damaged and hard drive is RAW.

Solution

To sort out this behavior of Windows computer and perform File Data Recovery, take assistance from your computer vendor if hard drive is having physical issues. On the other hand, if logical problems to the hard drive are causing this issue,  you should format the hard drive and reinstall operating system.

However, formatting removes all files from hard drive and eventually call for File Recovery Software to get your files recovered. The applications use advanced scanning techniques to methodically scan entire Windows hard drive and extract all lost, missing, and inaccessible files from it.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recovers lost Windows files in all cases of file loss. The software works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems. It supports safe and easy recovery from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

Windows 7 registry is a database that stores vital information about the applications (device drivers, third-party tools, kernel, and more) and low-level OS components used for proper functioning of the system. Corruption in even a single registry entry/hive can become a reason for unbootability of Windows 7 operating system. Under such circumstances, a Windows user encounters a boot error message that does not allow him/her to access the files saved on the hard drive.

To overcome such situations, users modify the corrupt registry entry. However, if the user is unable to modify or alter a wrong entry, then the system remains unbootable. To overcome such situations, an easy alternative for the user is to reinstall Windows 7 operating system and restore data from an updated backup. However, in case of inaccessibility of a complete backup, the user needs to opt for an effective File Recovery Software.

To illustrate the above case, take a real-time scenario where you try to boot your Windows 7 operating system and it automatically goes into ‘Startup Repair’ option. The option fails to boot your system and on viewing the scan details, you view the below error message:

“Registry is corrupt

error code =  0X3e7”

You encounter another error message after the above error message:

“Registry rollback failed”

The above error message appears when the registry gets corrupted or damaged. The data saved in the Windows 7 based hard drive becomes inaccessible after the above error message appears.

Cause:

Corruption in Windows 7 registry can occur due to virus attack, improper system shutdown, human mistakes, and more similar reasons.

Resolution:

To resolve the above registry corruption error message and to access the files saved on the hard drive, you will need to follow the below mentioned steps:

1.    Use a third-party registry cleaner to resolve registry corruption.

2.    In case the problem persists, try to change the corrupt registry entry manually.

3.    If you are unable to do so, then go for a clean reinstall of Windows 7 operating system.

While re-installation installs new set of registry entries, it also results in inaccessibility of all the files and folders previously saved in the hard drive. In such situations, a valid backup acts as a boon and allows you to perform restoration. However, in case of deficient or corrupt backup, you will need to opt for a commercial File Recovery utility. Such File Recovery tools ensure complete recovery and restoration of lost files and folders after re-installation.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a powerful, user-friendly, and safe File Recovery Software that recovers data from formatted Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 hard drives. The tool supports NTFS, NTFS5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems.

System files in Windows 7 or Vista can be corrupted due to various reasons like operating system malfunction, application corruption, improper system shutdown, installing service packs during execution of background defragmentation, and virus attack. In most cases of system file damage, Windows crashes and refuses to start, resulting in inaccessibility of the data saved in the hard drive. To overcome system file corruption, Windows provides an inbuilt repair tool to repair damaged system files. The tool is known as System File Checker tool (SFC.exe).

However, there are many situations wherein the system files remain corrupt even after running the above utility. For such situations, the user needs to reinstall Windows operating system and perform restoration from an updated data backup. But, in case of deficient backup, the user can recover formatted files/folders by using a commercial File Recovery Software.

To elaborate the above situation, consider a case wherein your system files get corrupt after a fatal virus attack. To repair the files, you use SFC.exe tool. To do so, you follow the below steps:

1.    On the command prompt follow the underneath steps:

•    Click ‘Start’ and select ‘All Programs’.

•    Choose ‘Accessories’ and then right-click on ‘Command-prompt’.

•    Lastly, click on ‘Run as administrator’.

2.    Once command prompt appears, type the below command:

sfc/ scannow

The above steps, although successful in most cases, can fail under two situations:

1.    You are unable to start your system, and therefore not able to run the command.

2.    The command fails to repair the corrupted system files and displays the below error message:

“WINDOWS RESOURCE PROTECTION COULD NOT PERFORM THE REQUIRED OPERATION”

For surmounting the above issues and booting your system, you will need to follow the below steps:

1.    Reinstall Windows on your system.

2.    Restore files/folders from an updated backup.

However, in the absence of an up-to-date backup, the user needs to recover the files from a third-party File Recovery Software. Such File Recovery tools use effective techniques to recover all formatted files and folders. These tools are easy-to-operate as they are built with intuitive user-interface.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a superb File Recovery tool that recoups all lost files, after any logical damage in the hard drive. The tool supports recovery from Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000 based hard drives. The read-only utility supports NTFS, NTFS5, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and VFAT file systems.

In Microsoft Windows Vista, you can prevent unauthorized access of your confidential and private data by encrypting the information, using EFS (Encrypted File System). EFS is a file system filter in Microsoft Windows operating system for protecting your valuable data from hackers with the physical access to your computer. However, in sometimes, you may face critical file loss situations in Microsoft Windows Vista, due to algorithms for the EFS smart card certificate implementation. At this point of time, you are required to opt for File Recovery Software, if there is no updated backup in place.
•    EFS Smart Card is an integrated circuit, which is used by EFS to safely store encryption keys. It also adds another layer of the data encryption to significant parts of your Windows hard drive. Smart Card Certificate Implementation stores your private and public encryption keys separately from randomly generated File Encryption Keys (FEK).

The EFS Smart Card Certificate Implementation of Microsoft Windows Vista doesn’t notice the Enhanced Key Usage (EKU) extensions if the EKU extensions don’t specify Encrypted File System. In such cases, the certificate may be chosen that isn’t intended for data encryption.

In such critical situations, you might lose your mission-critical files and stored information if the non-compliant certificate that was selected previously is not retained after the certificate expires or if the Disaster Recovery Agent (DRA) is not configured. In order to recover lost Windows files at this point, you need to perform File Recovery by resolving it.

Resolution

To sort out this behavior of Microsoft Windows Vista, you are required to upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2). It prevents such problems from being occurred further.

To recover the lost, missing, or inaccessible files from Microsoft Windows Vista hard drive, restore them from backup. Backup contains copies of all your critical files and proves a great help in all these cases.

However, if the backup itself is lost, damaged, or not updated, severe situations occur and File Recovery becomes need of hour. You can recover lost Windows files in a quick and absolute way using powerful and advanced third-party applications.

The File Recovery Software are particularly designed to carry out in-depth scan of your entire Windows hard drive and extract all lost files from it. They come equipped with simple and interactive user interface to provide ease of use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software safely recovers inaccessible Windows files in all cases of file loss. The software works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. It recovers lost files from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

Microsoft Windows XP operating system uses a number of system files and data structures to work effectively. All the files and data structures work together to keep your operating system functional. However, in some situations, the critical system files of Windows operating system may get damaged or deleted. In such cases, the computer system cannot boot up and you encounter a number of error messages.

At this point, you cannot access the files that are stored on your Windows hard drive. This behavior of Microsoft Windows leads to severe file loss problems and requires File Recovery Software to be fixed, if the backup is not updated or available.

When you start Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2)-based computer, you may come across the below error message:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.

Windows root\system32\hal.dll.

Please re-install a copy of the above file.”

This error message terminates the boot process and renders your Windows system inaccessible. To get your lost files back, perform File Recovery to fix this issue.

Grounds of the problem

You may come across this problem due to any of the following reasons:

•    The partition or boot record of your MS Windows XP computer is either damaged or corrupted.

•    The Windows hard drive or its file system is corrupted and damaging the Hal.dll file, the Ntoskrnl.exe file, and the primary Windows boot record.

•    The Ntoskrnl.exe and the Hal.dll files of your Windows XP operating system are corrupted.

Resolution

You can sort out this problem using any of the below methods:

•    Repair the damaged MBR using fixmbr command in Microsoft Windows XP Recovery Console.

•    Check the integrity and consistency of your Windows hard drive using Chkdsk utility. It also fixes some minor errors with the file system.

•    If the above methods do not work, format your Windows hard drive and reinstall the operating system. It solves all of the hard drive related problems.

However, formatting the hard drive removes all the files and causes significant file loss situations. At this point, you need to scan your Windows hard drive using File Recovery Software to retrieve lost files. The File Recovery tools are capable of effectively handling all types of data loss situations.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software recovers lost documents, PDFs, songs, videos, images, and other files. The software works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. It recovers files from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.