Extending File Causes Errors In Microsoft Windows Due To Fragmentation

In Microsoft Windows, you can use the applications to extend the files as per your requirements

. But in some situations, when an application tries to extend the file, like adding new record to existing database, the operation does not complete successfully. At the same time, you may face error messages, such as 'file system limitation', 'disk is full', or 'insufficient resources'. In such cases, when you restart your system, you can not access your hard drive partitions and come across partition loss situations. At this point, you are required to use Partition Recovery solutions to retrieve hard drive partitions and stored data.

Cause

The problem can occur due to extensive disk fragmentation. If the fragmentation is high, NTFS (New Technology File System) would use more space for storing the description of allocations associated with fragments. Allocation information is saved in one or more than one file records. If more than one file records are used, the file record information is stored in ATTRIBUTE_LIST.

The fragmentation occurs when the file is extended (either by application or the NTFS itself), but new data could not be placed into the clusters that are adjacent to other clusters employed by file. The most frequent reason whey it occurs is that the applications extend the file thousands or million times by small amount every time, and the other files are being written at same time.

NTFS file system compression may also cause disk fragmentation. It causes frequent reallocation, and in such cases it could be hard to keep the file data adjacent on the drive. Extensive fragmentation or fragmentation to the file system table cause file system corruption. It result into partition loss scenarios and need Windows Partition Recovery to handle the situation.

Solution

If problem is caused by NTFS compression, disable it. It would free up the disk space, which NTFS file system uses for describing the compression for file. In case of file system corruption, format the hard drive and reinstall operating system. But this method also removes the disk partitions, which requirePartition Recovery Software to be retrieved.

The Partition Recovery applications are powerful enough to methodically scan entire hard drive and extract all lost, missing and inaccessible Windows partitions. They come equipped with interactive and simple graphical user interface and thus do no require sound technical skills. The tools preserve integrity of your data as they have read-only conduct.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an efficient and advanced tool to ensure absolute recovery. It recovers data from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.

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