subject: Recovering hard drive when Blue Screen of Death appears in Windows XP system [print this page] Recovering hard drive when Blue Screen of Death appears in Windows XP system
In the Windows systems, a prominent error that appears when you switch on your system is the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) error. It is usually encountered when there is a critical error that causes the system to shut down so that there is minimal harm to the system's integrity. In such cases, the system dumps all its memory to a file on the disk.
However, recovering the data in the memory is a task in itself that you can do by performing appropriate in-house methods. In case, you are not able to recover hard drive using these methods then you should use a third-party Windows hard drive recovery software to do so.
Consider a scenario wherein you have a Windows XP system. You replace the motherboard on your system, but when it fails to boot when you start it. An error message is displayed, that is:
"STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE"
Cause:
The root cause of this error is that the new motherboard has an embedded IDE controller having a different chipset that the previous motherboard.
Resolution:
To resolve this error and access your system, you can perform either of the following methods:
Upgrade Windows XP: You should check if the previous and the new IDE controller are of the same size. If yes, then perform an in-place Windows XP upgrade. If the issue is still not resolved, then perform the next method.
Format hard disk and reinstall operating system: If the new IDE controller is different than the previous IDE controller, then you should repartition the hard disk and reinstall the operating system.
Both the aforementioned methods should be able to rectify the error. However, in both cases you would not be able to safeguard your valuable data. In such cases, you should use a third-party Windows hard drive recovery software to recover hard drive. Such tools are read-only in nature that do not overwrite the original data using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a hard drive recovery software that enables you to recover data from inaccessible hard drive. It is able to recover more than 185 different file types from variou storage media such as hard drives, external hard drives, pen drives, iPods, etc. In addition, this hard drive recovery tool is capable of recovering deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and Server 2000.
