How to resolve Windows 2003 server problem in case of hard drive damage?

So a volume of your Windows 2003 server based system is corrupt, and you are facing automatic reboot of your system every time you are trying to fix that volume. Or, are you facing Stop error messages when trying to fix that volume? Repairing that volume is of utmost importance as it has a lot of important data saved in it, but you don't know how to do that?

So what to do? Running Chkdsk utility doesn't help in case of severe damage to the volume. But don't worry, you have an updated backup, that can be used to perform Windows data recovery. The problem only comes, if you do not have backup with you!

The other day, I found that one of my volumes of the 2003 server hard drive was corrupt. Unfortunately, running chkdsk/f command line utility did nothing to fix my problem. Instead, my computer rebooted unexpectedly, and gave me the following Stop error message:

Stop 0x00000024 ( parameter1 , parameter2 , parameter3 , parameter4 )

Apart from the error message, when you check the System Log, following event is marked in it:

Event type: Error

Event source: EventLog

Event category: None

Event ID: 6008

Date: Date

Time: Time

User: N/A

Computer: ComputerName

Description: The previous system shutdown at PreviousTime on PreviousDate was unexpected.

This problem is caused due to passing of incorrect SCB (stream control board) pointer from the Ntfs.sys to the system, when Chkdsk.exe flushes its target volume. In case of corruption of target volume, the NTFS file system marks the target volume with a 'dirty' flag.

There are two ways of resolving this problem.

• Download the hotfix that is available on Microsoft website. On applying the hotfix, chances are that you will recover your partition along with all your data.
  
  

• But if in case it doesn't help you, then you'll have to format your hard drive to fix the file system problem. This needs to be followed by recovery of all the data that was saved in the drive using Windows data recovery software. A recovery software uses high-end scanning technique to scan and then gather together the pieces of data that have been deleted owing to formatting.