Windows 7 Recovery of Corrupted Hard Drive in Case of MBR Corruption

An MBR holds the primary partition table of the hard disk and is responsible for booting the operating systems. MBR is the first program that is accessed when the system is started. It contains the critical information such as number of partitions , information about active partition and so on.

Corruption in the MBR can also lead to a dead hard disk. The corruption can happen due to virus infections, human errors, abrupt system shutdown, etc. In this case a third-party hard drive recovery software to resolve the issue.

Consider a scenario wherein you have a Windows 7 system. When you switch it on, it fails to start as its Master Boot Record (MBR) has been corrupted. You then try to run the Startup Repair tool to fix the MBR. However, the tool shows that there are no problems.

Cause:

The root cause for this problem is that there could be a flash drive inserted in the computer. Because of this, the computer hardware sometimes acknowledges it as the system partition. And the Startup Repair tool scans the flash drive in place of the original system partition on the hard disk. As there is no corrupted MBR on the flash drive, no problem is detected.

Resolution:

To resolve this issue, you should perform the following steps:

• Eject the flash drive from the computer.

• Insert the Windows 7 installation DVD in the disc drive.

• Start the computer.

• Press any key when there is a prompt to do so.

• Select language, time, currency, keyboard, input method, etc.

• Click Next.

• Click the Repair your computer option.

• Click the operating system that is to be repaired.

• Click Next.

• Click Command Prompt in the System Recovery Options dialog box.

• Enter Bootrec.exe/fixmbr and press Enter. This command would fix the MBR issue.

However, if you still are not able to resolve the issue then you should use a third-party hard drive recovery software to recover lost data in the system. Such read-only tools are able to recover hard drive by employing fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms without overwriting the original data.

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Data Loss in Windows XP Due to Third-Party Driver Installation

Microsoft Windows does not contains device drivers for all the hardware resources, specially additional devices like printer, scanning, sound card and web camera. To get these devices running, you need to install third-party device drivers.

But in some situations, the NTFS file system volumes of your Windows computer that has third-party drivers installed, can not be accessed and you come across data loss situations. In such cases, you are required to opt for hard drive recovery solutions to get your mission-critical data back.

In a practical scenario, when you try to open NTFS file system volume on Microsoft Windows XP computer that has third-party drivers installed, you may come across below symptoms:

• You system reboots automatically.

• You encounter below error message after you log into your system:
  
  “Microsoft Windows
  The system has recovered from a serious error.
  A log of this error has been created.
  Please tell Microsoft about this problem.
  We have created an error report that you can send to help us improve Microsoft Windows. We will treat this report as confidential and anonymous.
  To see what data this error report contains, click here.”

At the same time, you may also encounter below “Stop” error:

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Surmounting System File Corruption in Windows

System files act as a backbone of any Windows operating system. These files consist of all I/O (Input/Output) information about Windows, which is used to access the system's software and hardware. Corruption in any of the system files can result in serious damages, even resulting in complete unbootability of the system. Few most common reasons for system file corruption can be improper system shutdown, downloading an incompatible patch, registry damage, virus attack, and operating system damage.

To overcome a system file corruption scenario, a Windows user can run SFC (System File Checker) utility. This utility scans for damaged system files and repairs them to maximum possible level. However, there is no surety that the tool can perform repair in all cases. In such cases, the user needs to perform a fresh reinstall of Windows operating system and then restore the data from a valid backup. But, in the absence of a complete and valid backup, the user needs to opt for a commercial Hard Drive Recovery application.

For deep analysis of the above case, consider a real-time scenario where you encounter the below error message while starting your Windows XP system. The same error message appears every time you try to boot your system:

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

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM”

After the above error message pops up, the data saved in your Windows XP based hard drive becomes inaccessible.

Cause:

The above error message appears due to corruption in Windows XP system file.

Resolution:

To resolve the above error message and to access the data saved in Windows XP based hard drive partition, you will need to follow the below measures:

1.Run 'SFC/ scannow' command to resolve corruption.

2.In case the command fails, reinstall Windows XP and restore data from an adequate backup.

However, in case no data backup is available, you can recover formatted hard drive data by using a powerful third-party Hard Drive Recovery application. Such Hard Drive Data Recovery tools employ advanced recovery procedures that can recover all files and folders from a formatted hard drive. Such tools are compatible with all kinds of hard drives, regardless of their size and brand.


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How to fix Blue Screen of Death using Microsoft Windows 7 Data Recovery ?

Microsoft Windows 7, the latest version of Microsoft Windows operating system is available worldwide. It provides an advanced and enhanced bunch of features. But as we know that with every new evolution there are some positive as well as some negative points associated with it . The same is true with Windows 7 also . It has been found that this operating system may cause some critical situations which can cause data loss.

While installing the latest security updates on Windows 7 some problems may occur. This is defined as Black Screen of Death since the systems are left with black still screen with no error message at all. There may be a system crash at the same time.

What causes this problem?

It has been found that this problem can be caused by some patches and security updates that had changed permission in Windows registry. But later on, Microsoft confirmed that none of the latest updates are related to this issue.

In addition to Microsoft Windows 7, the problem is also seen in Windows Vista and Windows XP-based computers.

The another suspected cause of this issue is malware infection.

• Malware (or Malicious Software) are the programs that damage or infiltrate your computer. They may even damage your computer file system and hard drive, causing serious data loss. In such cases, windows data recovery is required to get your valuable data back.

Resolution

This problem can be resolved by reinstalling the operating system. It needs formatting of your primary partition and it may become more critical if you have not partitioned your drive.

In all such cases, windows data recovery software come for your rescue. These are powerful and effective third-party applications, which recover lost data safely. The Windows Recovery tools are quite easy to use and perform absolute recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the comprehensive software to recover data from Windows, in case of Black Screen of Death and other data loss situations. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. The software supports recovery from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system volumes.