subject: Hard drive inaccessibility due to System Errors and guidelines for an efficient Hard Drive Data Recovery [print this page] Hard drive inaccessibility due to System Errors and guidelines for an efficient Hard Drive Data Recovery
Windows, like other operating systems, has always been subject to various System errors. There primary cause is either a software or hardware malfunction. Many times, these errors halt the booting process of your computer and result in system inaccessibility. As all the user data is stored on the system hard drive, you may face severe data loss if any such incident takes place. Sometimes a partition of the hard drive becomes corrupt, making you lose all the vital information stored therein. In all such scenarios, you need to go for hard drive recovery through a reliable third-party utility to recover back all your lost and invaluable data.
For instance, when you start your Windows 2000-based computer, you may come across one or more of the following error messages on your screen:
*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
*** The system has halted ***
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
NMI: Channel Check / IOCHK
NMI: Fail-safe timer
NMI: Bus Timeout
Cause:
The following reasons are responsible for the above behavior-
A hardware or software malfunction
The primary data structures of the operating system hard drive are damaged.
Some of the system drivers are corrupt or incompatible with the operating system.
Due to these errors, the system hangs on every reboot and becomes unresponsive. This would prevent you from accessing the data stored on your hard drive. You may use a backup to perform hard drive data recovery. However, if the backup is missing, try following the below mentioned resolution steps.
Resolution:
These steps may help you sort the issue-
Delete and reinstall the software that might be creating the problem.
Remove the malfunctioned hardware.
Use the Chkdsk utility to perform an integrity check on the hard drive. It can also fix several file system errors.
If the above steps are unable to resolve the problem, you should use a free download data recovery software of any reputed data recovery solutions provider. These software make use of efficient scanning algorithms and embed significant features to perform a safe and reliable Windows hard drive data recovery. They perform selective recovery of files based on the file types.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an advanced utility that recovers lost, deleted, or formatted data from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems. Moreover, it is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, 2000, and NT4(SP6).
