subject: Windows Recovery When You Can't See Desktop Icons, Task Bar And Other Items [print this page] Startup errors and blue screen are very common in Microsoft Windows computer. Sometimes, when you boot your Windows computer, system stick in boot Windows and nothing happens. You can not access your valuable data from the hard drive and come across Windows data loss situations. In such situations, you need to restore data from backup to get your system working again. In case if backup is not available or damaged, Windows Data Recovery is required to extract lost data from affected hard drive.
In a practical scenario, when you boot Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic computer, after welcome screen, you can not see desktop icons, Start button, and task bar. You can see only the mouse pointer, but left and right clicks does not work. When you try to restore the system or boot it using Vista Boot DVD, process does not complete and system remains inaccessible.
This behavior of Microsoft Windows Vista renders all of your valuable data inaccessible. At this point, it becomes essential to identify the cause of this problem and perform windows recovery by resolving it to get your mission-critical data back.
Cause
This issue is cause by missing or damaged Windows system files or even the corrupted operating system. The problem might be caused by virus infection, improper system shutdown and other such scenarios.
Resolution
You can try out any of the below things to fix this problem:
Boot your system in Safe Mode with Safe Mode with Networking option. You can boot your system in Safe Mode by tapping F8 during system startup and then selecting Advanced Boot Options.
Try Linux Live CD. If you can access data using it, create backup of all your significant data from Vista hard drive partition and then perform in-place upgrade of operating system.
Repair Microsoft Windows Vista while keeping all your files, programs and settings using the Repair Installation method.
Perform Clean Installation of Vista by formatting the hard drive. This method removes all data from the hard drive and need to recover windows partition by using a recovery program.
You can easily recover your lost data using Windows Data Recovery Software. The applications use high-end scanning techniques to carry out in-depth scan of entire hard drive and extract all of the lost data from it. With read-only conduct and rich graphical user interface, the tools are quite safe and easy to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution for all your data loss problems. It recovers lost, missing and inaccessible data from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
