Dec 23 2009
How to Troubleshoot Boot Errors?
When your system boots up, BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) setup performs POST (Power On Self Test) for checking the system and ensuring that everything is functioning properly. If BIOS is able to start your system and gain access to video subsystem, it displays information about system as it starts up. However, sometimes you may come across boot error messages, which prevent your system from booting. It renders all your critical data inaccessible and leads to data loss situations. At this point, you need to perform data recovery through appropriate solutions.
The error may be caused by several different components of your computer, depending upon how far into boot process the operating system gets before the error is produced. Majority of the errors are caused by your system BIOS because it handles most of the system booting functions. Other error messages can be the operating system specific.
There are several individual error messages and some are very common as there are a few different BIOS manufacturers, which are used by most of the systems today. But, since the actual wording of error may be changed by manufacturer of every motherboard or system, there are many variations. One common example of boot time error message is as follows:
“Disk Drive failure”
After above error message, your system can not boot up and you can not log into the system. All your data business-critical becomes inaccessible. In order to gain access of your significant data in such cases, you need to find out the cause of this issue and perform Data Recovery through fixing it.
Root of the problem
As stated in above error message, boot errors generally occur due to hard drive failure. The failure can be either logical or physical:
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Logical Failure- Such type of disk failure occurs due to virus infection, file system corruption, operating system malfunction, and disk metadata structure corruption. In these cases, operating system can not read files from the drive and data loss occurs. You can recover lost data using Data Recovery Software. The applications are pretty easy to use and work in most of the logical failure situations.
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Physical Failure- This type of failure is caused by read/write head crash, spindle motor damage, actuator arm damage, power surges, and natural disasters. Data Recovery Services professionals help you to get your data recovered in such circumstances.
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