subject: Windows Startup Issues After Changing Boot Partition Drive Letter [print this page] Startup issues are quite common in Microsoft Windows operating system. They prevent you from logging into the system and access data from hard drive or write data to it. You may lose you valuable data due to this behavior of Microsoft Windows as entire system become inaccessible. In such critical situations, you need to restore data from backup. In case if the backup is not available or not updated, you need windows data recovery solutions to get your business-critical data back.
In a practical scenario, after trying to log into your MS Windows computer using valid username and password, Loading your personal settings window appears, followed by Saving your settings dialog box. After that, Windows desktop can not be displayed and you see Welcome to Windows log in screen again.
If you have stored paging file on boot or system partition, you might also come across the below error message before you return to Welcome to Windows log in screen:
[Limited Virtual Memory]
Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small.
This behavior of Microsoft Windows renders all your significant data inaccessible. In order to access data in such cases, you need to find out actual cause of the problem and then sort it out to recover windows files .
Grounds of the issue
This problem may occur if the drive letter of Windows system partition does not match drive letter assigned to it during initial setup. Windows maintains record of the drive letters in registry-based database. It re-assigns drive letters on the basis of GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) recorded for every volume.
This issue might also occur when you break the boot/system mirror, and then try to boot to old shadow drive if original primary drive is either inaccessible or missing.
Solution
In order to fix this issue, boot your system using Windows installation disk and run the following command and reboot your system:
FDISK /MBR
If it does not help you to fix the issue, format the disk and reinstall operating system. This method fixes the problem, but removes all data from the hard drive. To recover lost data, Windows Data Recovery Software are required.
Windows Data Recovery applications are third-party applications, which use high-end scanning techniques to ensure complete recovery of lost data. They are completely easy and safe to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made tool to ensure perfect recovery in all data loss situations. It recovers data from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS5 file system partitions. The softwre is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.
