Digital cameras, mobile cameras, handy cam and other electronic digital devices have become our day-to-day partners. Clicking photographs to capture our minutest memories or happiness has become so easy with help of these gadgets. And these digital cameras, mobile phones are so trendy that anyone gets lured by their beauty, sleekness, clarity, data storage capacity, etc.

But have you ever thought of keeping those precious moments (photos) at a safe location? Or did you ever bother about their corruption? If no, then you would be sole responsible for their permanent loss in future, if any. For preventing your digital photos getting lost, you should take some precautionary moves.

First of all, make a habit of taking regular backups of your photographs, videos from digital cameras. Reason for having backups is that there is always fear of wiping out of all our digital pictures due to various reasons like power surges, user error, improper handling and majorly virus attacks. Virus contamination in digital devices most of the times prove fatal for the data residing inside the digital cameras. Obviously no one would like to fall prey to such virus attacks and lose all the precious photographs. It is always better to be cautious by taking backups rather than taking risks with digital photographs.

These digital cameras, mobile cameras, pen drives, USB flash drives where we store our pics are known as external hard drives to our main computer. Computer viruses are the main danger for these drives. Viruses get easily transferred from the computer to these external drives and hence posing dangers to the file pictures. So what could be done to ensure digital photo recovery? You can take some precautions for avoiding any kind of virus attack situations, like

• Never download fussy mails

• Always have an up-to-date anti-virus on your system

• Never connect any external virus infected device to your computer

If you are suspicious of virus contamination, then consider the following for lessening any further multiplying of virus.

• Make sure that images or pictures from the infected system are not be mailed or transferred to anyone (the virus could attach itself to it).

• Immediately use the anti-virus to scan and remove the virus.

• Lastly, format the drive.

Your digital photos get corrupt or deleted or just become inaccessible due to virus contamination. If you are having backups then well and good, your data is saved. But if not, then there is no choice left than to take help of digital photo recovery software. Digital photo recovery tool are the real time digital data saver as they recover all photos from corrupted or unusable, virus contaminated digital media and storage devices. Kernel for digital media recovery software performs thorough scan of the drive and ensures complete digital photo recovery.

The following reading describes an issue when you can lose an NTFS formatted logical drive in a dual-boot system using Windows XP. While such problems, you should make sure to have a valid data backup to restore it. But if it is unavailable for any reason, you need to use a powerful Windows Partition Recovery utility.

Consider the following scenario:

• You configure to dual-boot between Windows 98 or 95 and Windows XP

• One of the primary partitions is FAT formatted

• You have two or more logical drives in an extended partition of Windows XP

• An NTFS logical drive exists before the FAT logical drive

• You use Fdisk to delete the FAT logical drive (occurring after NTFS logical drive), but can see only FAT logical drive labeled with drive letter of NTFS drive. You delete the FAT drive

• You restart Windows XP, but the NTFS drive is no longer accessible in Logical Disk Manager

Cause

Such issues are observed because NTFS logical drive is not recognized by Fdisk in an extended partition. So, if an NTFS logical drives comes before FAT drive, it deletes the NTFS drive instead when you try to delete the FAT drive, for which you might not have complete backup.

Solution

To prevent such events from occurring, you should use Windows Logical Disk Manager to change logical drives’ information. It is recommended not to use Fdisk when dual-boot configuration between Windows 98 or 95 and Windows XP is being used.

After you accidentally delete the NTFS partition, its entire data is lost. To restore it, you should check the availability and status of backup. If it exists in valid form, you need to apply it. Alternatively, you can use Data Recovery Software products to recover it.

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Windows Server 2003 doesn’t support all FTDisk (fault-tolerant) volumes that have ever existed in Windows NT Server 4.0 installed computer system. For this reason, when you upgrade your computer to Windows Server 2003, some of dynamic volumes might remain inaccessible. Along with other symptoms, you cannot access the data stored in these volumes. To restore them, Microsoft suggests using FTonline utility that allows you to temporarily mount the volumes and hence, backup data from. If due to any cause backup fails or you find it unfeasible using the tool, it is recommended to use Windows Partition Recovery products that allow recovering inaccessibile and lost disk partitions.

For example, consider you use a Windows NT Server 4.0 based computer system and create spanned, mirrored, striped or striped volumes with RAID 5 parity. You upgrade to Windows Server 2003, but when you try to access any of previously created volumes, you fail to do so. Additionally, when you view the Disk Management, these volumes are visible with ‘Healthy (Unknown Partition)’ status. The listing shows these volumes with no associated drive letter.

The similar behavior is observed when you move disks containing previously created NTDisk volumes on a basic disk of a Windows 2000-based computer system to a Windows Server 2003 installed computer

Cause

By design, Windows Server 2003 doesn’t support previously created Windows NT 4.0 FTDisk volumes.

Solution

Following sequence of steps can help you recovering from the existing issue:

Use FTonline utility that allows temporary data access to the inaccessibile FTDisk volumes. You can then take a full data backup of the volumes

After the backup process is done, you should delete those volumes

Convert the volumes to Dynamic disks and restore data from backup

If using FTonline is not possible or the backup comes out to be invalid when you try to restore, you need a Partition Recovery Software. Built with powerful partition recovery technology, these Windows Partition Recovery utilities prove highly-competent tools to recover and restore inaccessibile, damaged, missing or lost Windows partitions. You can use these products in any instance of Windows partition loss.

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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) became available on Windows Update and Download Center for Windows Vista users on March 18, 2008. The update includes various substantial improvements in terms of performance, reliability, user’s experience and support to various new hardware and standards. But at times, the deployment of the service pack via Windows Update can cause a machine to become unbootable. This forces you to attempt Windows repair using Windows Recovery Environment. But if you fail in your attempts, you might need to perform clean reinstallation of Windows Vista, which causes data loss. In such cases if your backup fails or is currently absent, you are suggested to use a powerful data recovery utility that could restore the data thus lost.

For an instance, consider that you use Windows Update to install Windows Vista SP 1 on your computer. The process appears to be completed as you see progress status showing 100% completion. But when you start the computer, it gives the below error message:

ntoskrnl.exe
Status: 0xc0000098
Info: Windows failed to load because a required file is missing or corrupt.

After you receive this error message, you cannot boot the system and the process halts. It also prompts you to boot the system from Windows Vista installation disk to repair. Attempting to do so results failure as it says that it cannot repair and suggests you to send the report thus generated to Microsoft. This makes your data inaccessible.

Solution

Try these steps to solve the existing issue:

• Boot your computer using Windows Vista installation disk. You might need to configure BIOS to boot from CD or DVD

• Specify Language, Time, Currency and other options. Click Next

• Click ‘Repair your Computer’ and select the target Windows installation

• Choose ‘Command Prompt’ in ‘System Recovery Options’

• Restore hal.dll, ntkrnlpa.exe and ntoskrnl.exe files in your WindowsSystem32 folder

• Restore acpi.sys , volmgr.sys, disk.sys, volsnap.sys, msisadrv.sys and pci.sys files in your WindowsSystem32Drivers folder

• Exit the command prompt and restart the computer and check if the problem persists

• If you still cannot boot the system, reinstall Windows and restore data from backup.

• Use an efficient data recovery software in case of any backup concerns. Data Recovery applications are safe recovery products embedded with high-end algorithms to locate missing data. It is recommended to use these partition recovery products before trying to format or install anything on your computer.

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In Microsoft Windows operating system-based computer, you may need to run Disk Defragmenter to improve your system performance. This tool contiguously organize the files, which are divided into fragments. However, if the disk utility runs just after completion of defragmentation process, hard drive structure may get damaged. This behavior of Windows operating system results into critical partition loss situations and need Partition Recovery to be sorted out.

For example, after running Disk Defragmenter on your NTFS (New Technology File System) partition, Chkdsk might be scheduled to run next time, when you reboot your system. But, the Chkdsk/Autocheck may not find any problem with your hard drive. If you run Disk Defragmenter again on NTFS file system partition, Chkdsk might be scheduled to run again on next reboot. At this point of time, you may see following entries in System Event Log of your Windows computer:

“Event Type: Error
Event Source: Ntfs
Event Category: Disk
Event ID: 55
Date: date
Time: time
User: N/A
Computer: computer name
Description: The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume F:.”

After this error message, your Windows partitions can not be accessed. In order to gain access of hard drive partitions and stored data, you need to find out the cause of this problem and perform Windows Partition Recovery by sorting it out.

Grounds of the issue

This issue may occur by a situation in Microsoft Windows Disk Defragmenter utility, which might prevent specified cluster of the data from being optimized. If Windows Disk Defragmenter utility cannot move any specific data element, move can not be done and you encounter an error in the system Event Log of Windows and the Chkdsk is scheduled. It damage file system structure on the hard drive.

Resolution

To fix this problem, try out any of the below methods:

• Run the Disk Cleanup on NTFS partition.

• Reformat the partition.

• Move the drive on later version of Windows operating system and defragment it.

Though, formatting is able to fix all such problems, but it also removes hard drive partitions and cause critical partition loss situations. At this point. Partition Recovery Software come for your help.

The Windows Partition Recovery applications use high-end scanning methods for assured recovery. They come equipped with simple and rich graphical user interface to provide ease of use.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution for all types of partition loss situations. It recovers data from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software is designed for Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

Windows 7 Disk Management utility allows you to resize existing hard disk partitions non-destructively, without the aid of any third-party tool. Before running the tool, it is however strongly recommended to backup all the important data. The post-effects of resizing the partitions can sometimes be corrupt file system structures. As a result, your partition(s) may become completely inaccessible and cause data loss situations. To recover from such problems, you need to restore from a suitable backup, if available or use a Windows Partition Recovery solution that can recover lost data. As an instance of such problems, you can consider a practical situation when you try to resize two partitions on a Windows 7 based computer. You shrink the frist partition by A GB and extend the second one by the same value. The next time, when you try to access the second partition (that has been extended), it is longer accessible with an error as below: “: is not accessible The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.” You cannot access the data stored in this partition. Cause This issue can occur in Windows 7 computer if one or more of the file system structures or partition table have got corrupted due to partition resizing. Solution To resolve this behavior, you are suggested to try these solutions: You can try repairing the file system using chkdsk with /f switch.

However, it is strongly recommended to run this tool only if you have a full data backup. To do so, click ‘Start’ and then ‘Run’. You can then type ‘chkdsk /f ‘ in the ‘Open’ box and click OK. Here, the drive name should be exactly what is appearing in error message. Alternatively, you can opt for deleting the corrupt partition provided the backup is available. If no good backup exists, you should consider to use a Windows Data Recovery utility. These are powerful and valid Windows Partition Recovery utilities built to scan the corrupt or deleted partitions and safely recover the lost data. The applications are easy to install and use. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery Software is a feature-rich and advanced tool that recovers lost, corrupt, damaged, and deleted Windows partitions. The safe Windows Data Recovery tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000. The software provides features like RAW File Recovery, Disk Imaging, Disk Cloning etc. The tool supports FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file systems.

On a Windows installed computer, you can install Linux as the second operating system. To proceed Linux installation, you need to create /boot partition using free space available on the hard disk or by shrinking the existing Windows partition. You are not recommended to abort the Linux installation while the Setup is creating space for /boot partition. Doing so might render the Windows partition inaccessible. Your data might get lost and thus, to restore the data, you will need to use your current data backup. If it is not feasible as data backup is damaged or incomplete, you need to use an efficient Windows Partition Recovery application.

To illustrate it, consider the below scenario:

You use a Windows installed computer system with two partitions, boot partition and a data partition

You run Linux Setup to install the operating system on free space of the hard drive

You abort the installation operation while it was creating the /boot partition

You restart the computer and find that the data partition is inaccessible

The data partition is accessible but when you use any utility that accesses partitions’ information, it reports incorrect information about hard drive partitions

Cause

You have partially or completely corrupted the MBR partition table by aborting Linux installation process. An interrupted installation might introduce errors in hard disk partition table.

Solution

To solve the existing issue, you might consider the following recommendations:

You can delete and recreate the damaged partition provided you have a valid data backup available

If you do not have any clean backup that could be used to restore the lost information, you need to use a third-party utility Partition Recovery

Windows Partition Recovery tools are suitable applications that could restore lost data from a corrupted, damaged, lost or formatted hard disk partition. These software are embedded with advanced options and safe, yet powerful, scanning algorithms that could locate the missing data and restore it at a safe location. Such utilities serve as comprehensive recovery products to recover logically crashed Windows partitions.

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When you boot the system, Windows extracts its kernel image file as ntoskrnl.exe. Since it provides Executive and Kernel layers of Windows NT kernel space, the file serves as the critical component of Windows NT boot process. Its functions also include providing several fundamental system services. A Windows system cannot boot if the file is corrupt or missing. Such situations lead to data inaccessibility that you need to cope up with recent data backup. But if no suitable backup is available that can restore complete information required, you should use a powerful data recovery utility that could extract the lost data..

To illustrate such situations, consider that you use a Windows Vista based computer system. You might observe the following sequence of symptoms with your computer:

• You turn on the computer and click to install Windows updates

• The system restarts and updates starts installing, but doesn’t complete

• An error message prompts reporting that it is running startup repair

• The system repair process generates a diagnosis report that describes the below error message:

“Boot critical file C: toskrnl.exe is corrupt”

Cause

Ntoskrnl.exe file has got corrupted due to incomplete updates.

Solution

Below are the possible solutions that you can apply to solve the given problem:

• Boot the system using Windows Vista installation and start Windows Recovery Environment to access the command prompt. Run sfc /scannow to run System File Checker that repairs all Vista system files.

• If the problem persists, boot into System Recovery Options using Windows installation disc to run Startup Repair. This will try to fix all the system startup issues.

• Perform Repair installation for Windows Vista

• If you still cannot solve the issue, perform clean installation of Windows Vista and use your backup to restore the data after the process

Sometimes, you cannot restore from backup as it is damaged or not updated enough so that you can use it to restore. To cope with such problems, it is recommended to use a data recovery software that can employ advanced scanning algorithms to undelete all the lost files and folders. data recovery products are special purposed tools built to safely retrieve lost data. These also prove to be powerful lost partition recovery applications.

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Windows Vista Disk Partitioning scheme is different from earlier Windows versions. Windows Vista partitions require some reserved space before the primary partition, so most of the partitioning software may fail at this point. Though Windows Vista and Windows 7 include built-in features that allow to expand and shrink disk partitions with no data loss, but partitioning software are still used. One common issue related with such software are that they can cause boot problems to a Windows Vista-based system. As a result, the data stored on Windows partitions become inaccessible and compel you to restore it from the latest backup available. If backup doesn’t work, use of a partition recovery software is recommended.

To illustrate such problems, suppose you use Windows Vista-based computer. You use GParted (the bootable Linux CD used to manage disk partitions) to resize your Windows Vista partition. After this, you find that you cannot boot into the computer and receive the following error:

File:windowssystem32winload.exe

Status:0xc000000f

Info:The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

Cause

You have resized your boot/system partition with GParted that has corrupted the Winload.exe file of Windows Vista. Winload.exe is the Windows Vista boot loader that is called by Windows Boot Manager to load Windows kernel and device drivers. Windows cannot boot without this file being absent or corrupt.

Solution

To solve Winload.exe corruption in this case, you should repair the Windows installation by following these steps:

• Insert the Windows Vista installation CD/DVD and boot your computer from it.

• You receive a Welcome screen, at which you need to click ‘Next’.

• Click ‘Repair your computer’ at the next screen.

• The System Recovery Options box will appear asking you to ‘Repair and Restart’. Click it.

The Windows Vista will start running as normal if the computer repair succeeds. If not, your computer will remain unbootable. In such situations, you should recover the inaccessible data using partition recovery utilities. However, if you have full backup, you can go for formatting and clean Windows install. Partition Recovery Software are scanning-based utilities with high competency to recover lost or deleted Windows partitions safely.

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A dual-boot between Windows XP and Windows Vista allows you to choose any of the operating systems while booting. You might encounter issues when you find your Windows Vista partition inaccesible and unreadable. If you fail to restore from your present backup in such cases, you are recommended to use a third-party Windows Partition Recovery software.

Consider the following scenario:

You use a dual-boot system using Windows Vista and XP. Windows Vista partition is formatted to NTFS file system.

You use Windows Vista built-in tool to shrink Windows XP partition that leaves some unallocated space on the hard drive

You then use a third-party partitioning utility to expand Windows Vista partition so that the unallocated space is covered

The process starts but doesn’t finish successfully and system is left in an unstable state

After this, when you restart the system to boot Windows Vista, you get the below error message displaying on screen and the you cannot boot into Windows Vista partition:

File: Windowssystem32winload.exe

Status: 0xc0000225

Info: the selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

When you try to access the Windows partition by booting through Windows XP, it gives you another error:

“Disk is not formatted – do you want to format it?”

Cause

The use of third-party utility has corrupted the Windows Vista partition. This might occur if the utility fails to manage improved features included in NTFS file system used by Windows Vista.

Solution

You can apply following measures to solve the discussed problem:

Boot your system using Windows Vista installation disc to start Windows Recovery Environment and run ‘Startup Repair’

Try running the below commands:

bootrec /fixmbr

bootrec /fixboot

bootrec /RebuildBcd

If the error persists, partition the hard drive and reinstall Windows Vista. Use your backup to restore data from the lost partition.

At times, backup proves invalid to work completely. In such situations, you need to use a safe, comprehensive and powerful Partition Recovery utility to extract the lost information. Windows Data Recovery products are exclusively built products designed to scan the disk for lost, missing or damaged partitions.

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