subject: How To Resolve 'physical Memory Dump' Error In Microsoft Windows? [print this page] In Microsoft Windows, the 'Physical Memory Dump' is a common blue screen error, which could stop your system from functioning properly and may cause it to reboot. This problem may occur every time when you reboot your affected system and may prevent you to access data from hard drive. This behavior sometimes lead to critical data loss situations and need Hard Drive Recovery to be handled.
Physical Memory Dump error is actually from the core of your Windows operating system. This is the place where Windows actually 'dumps' the information, which is open in the system. When Windows encounters a serious error, this has to be rebooted. This error is generally the way of Microsoft Windows to protect itself from any type of serious damage. The complete error message may look like the following one:
Problem detected windows shutdown to prevent damage.
Remove any newly installed hard-drives or hardware controllers.
Check hard drive is correctly configured and terminated.
At this point, your Windows hard drive become inaccessible and you need to find out cause of this problem to perform hard drive recovery to resolving this behavior.
Cause
This error is usually caused by either of the following issues-
1. Hardware incompatibility- If you have just installed a new hard drive in your system, it may be incompatible with your system and cause this problem. This problem generally occurs when you upgrade your computer. The hard drive damage can also lead to such issues.
2. Hard drive data structure damage- If your hard drive metadata structures, such as file system, MBR (Master Boot Record), partition table, and master file table. In such cases, operating system can not locate system files and data on hard drive, thus they become inaccessible.
Resolution
To sort out this problem, try removing newly installed hard drive. If it works, then the problem is caused by hardware incompatibility, else you need to repair damaged data structures by formatting the hard drive and reinstalling operating system. However, this method fixes all such issues, but also remove data from hard drive and need hard drive recovery software to resolve it. The Hard Drive Recovery applications work in majority of data loss situations, and safely recover all lost data.
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