Data Recovery Software Help For Windows, Mac , Linux Systems

During the Windows XP startup, you must have encountered some errors messages that do not allow you to log into the operating system. Such errors, often, prove very costly for the system as you may have to take some drastic steps to resolve the problem. These problems can evolve due to any number of reasons. Some of the more prominent ones could be virus infections, abrupt or improper system shutdowns, faulty hardware components, bugs in operating system, etc. You should try to find out the exact reason to rectify the problem. If nothing works out, then you should use a third-party data recovery software to perform safe data recovery.

For instance, consider a situation where you start your Windows XP system. But it fails to start, and an error message is displayed:

“The file C:\windows\system32\c_1252.nls is missing or corrupt”

Cause:

Such behavior at startup could have happened as the file mentioned in the error message, c_1252.nls, is missing or damaged.

Resolution:

To resolve such startup errors, you should perform the following methods, preferably in the order in which they are given:

Check the hard disk for errors: It may be possible that the hard disk contains some errors, which is causing the problem. To resolve them, you should run Chkdsk tool to check and repair the errors.
Replace missing files: If the mentioned file(s) is/are missing, then you should replace the missing files in the Recovery Console by using Windows XP CD-ROM.

Replace missing files without console: If you are unable to open the Recovery Console, then you should use the emergency CD for Windows 98 to replace the missing files. However, you should keep in mind that this method is applicable only on Windows XP systems with FAT32 file system.

Perform In-Place upgrade: If none of the aforementioned methods succeed, then you should perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP using the Setup CD. This should resolve the issue.

Having said that, at times these methods are unable to resolve the problem. Also, you may also need to recover the trapped data. For such situations, you should use a third-party data recovery software. Using such data recovery tools makes the data recovery safe and secure by using fast and sophisticated scanning algorithms.

One such software that performs safe data recovery is Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery utility. With the ability to recover more than 185 different file types, this file data recovery software supports FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems in various storage media such as hard disks, external hard drives, pen drives, iPods, etc. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000, this RAID data recovery tool recovers deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express.

In Windows XP, the System32 is a system-defined folder, which is very vital for the proper functioning of the operating system. It is placed in the active partition and contains various system files that are very important to start some in-built applications, which makes its loss extremely vulnerable. However, sometimes these files can be deleted permanently either due to human errors, virus infections, power outages, corrupt operating system, etc. In such cases, you should use a third-party file recovery software to recover the deleted files and folders.

Consider a scenario wherein you are working on your Windows XP system. You are removing useless files from your system to clean up the data as well as to speed up the system performance. However, you did not realize that you also hard-deleted the System32 folder. When you restart the system next time, you find that few in-built applications such as Internet Explorer, Control Panel, etc are not running. You have no idea how these files got deleted or how these files can be recovered, if at all.

When you delete a file or folder, first of all its pointer is removed from the database of the file system while the file itself remains in the hard disk. Following which, a notification is send to the operating system suggesting that empty space is now available for new files. The deleted file may, however, remain there as long as a new file is not created or an existing file is not moved. So, you should ensure that you do not create a new file after accidentally hard-deleting files. One more thing that you can do with important files is to mark them as Read-only so that you will be prompted twice while deleting such files.

Regardless of the fact that these deleted files can be recovered from the hard disk, there is no in-built feature that recovers deleted files or folders. So, to perform file recovery of the deleted files you should use a third-party file recovery software. Such file recovery tools are extremely safe to use as they employ fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms to recover the deleted data.

Stellar Phoenix File Recovery Plus is a file recovery software that recovers deleted, lost, or formatted files from various storage media such as hard drives, pen drives, external hard disks, etc. It is able to recover more than 200 file types. In addition, this file recovery utility restores the deleted emails from Outlook Express and MS Outlook. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.