subject: Windows Registry Corrupt Post Fatal Virus Attack [print this page] Windows registry is a hierarchical database that stores information about all computer system settings, software settings, and hardware settings. The registry reflects every single change made in your computer system. Any wrong change made in Windows registry can result into serious damage, even resulting into unmountability of Windows operating system. This further results in inaccessibility of data stored in your hard drive. An ideal way to overcome such data loss situations is to restore the data from a valid backup file. But, in case you have not maintained any backup file or the backup file is corrupt, then the only through by which you can recover your lost data is by using a powerful Disk Recovery application.
Sometimes, you are required to change or modify the registry settings when malware or virus infection make some alterations in the Windows registry. Harmful programs like malware run malicious files in the registry at the time when the system boots. This may severely damage your system, which may further lead to loss of data.
Resolving the issue:
To resolve registry corruption, you will need to delete the malicious registry entries and restore the default ones. But sometimes, even after restoring the default entries, , your computer system does not does not boot. This happens when you have entered any wrong entry or the registry has been severely corrupted. As a result, your hard drive data may become inaccessible.
Note: To re-boot your computer system, you will need to format your system.
While formatting allows you to re-boot, it also deletes the data stored in your hard drive partition. For complete recovery of data after hard drive formatting, you will need to opt for a high-quality Hard Drive Recovery software to recover your data. These disk recovery applications employ most influential scanning algorithms to extract the lost or inaccessible data from the hard drive. Additionally, these utilities also provide intuitive graphical user-interface to enable you to use and understand these tools with ease. Hence, you need not be technical savvy to perform data recovery by using these tools.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a comprehensive Hard Drive Recovery software that recovers your lost, deleted or formatted data in almost all logical data loss scenarios. The software also provides you with various advanced features like Disk Imaging, Disk Cloning, etc. The non-destructive tool natively supports Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. This software is compatible with FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file systems.
