Recovering Corrupt Partition In A Windows Xp-based System

Disk partitioning is the feature in operating systems that involves dividing the hard disk in to various logical parts referred as partitions. Partitioning lets you keep the information files away from the system-related files. This way, you also have a separate area for virtual memory swapping, which leads to increased performance & reduced turnaround time of the process. However, sometimes the partitions in the process get corrupt due to various reasons such as virus infections, human errors, power outages, corrupt operating process, etc. In such cases, you ought to take appropriate steps to resolve the issue. However, in the event you are unable to perform partition recovery then you ought to make use of third-party Windows partition recovery program to recover Windows partition.

Think about a scenario wherein you are unable to start your Windows XP process. A mistake message is getting displayed, that is:

“Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt.

Windows root\system32\hal.dll.

re-install a replica of the above file.”

Cause:

There could be the following reasons for the aforementioned error message:
The process has a bad partition or a bad boot record.

The Hal.dll or the Ntoskrnl.dll file are corrupted because of the file process corruption.

The Hal.dll & the Ntoskrnl.exe files are mismatched.

Resolution:

For each of the aforementioned cause, you can perform the following methods, respectively, to perform partition recovery:

Run the fixmbr command from the Windows XP Recovery Console to repair the Master Boot Record (MBR).

Run the fixboot command from the Windows XP Recovery Console to write a new boot sector on the process partition, if the process drive is FAT partitioned. Then, run the fixmbr command to repair the MBR.

In the Recovery Console, run the Bootcfg.exe command to rebuild the Boot.ini file.

However, in the event you are still unable to resolve the issue then you ought to make use of a third-party partition recovery program to recover partition. Such read-only tools can make use of speedy yet sophisticated scanning algorithms to perform partition recovery without overwriting the original information.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Information Recovery is partition recovery program that lets you recover Windows partition. It can recover the information from lost or formatted partitions from various storage media such as pen drive, hard disks, outside hard drives, etc. This Windows partition recovery program can recover lost information from both FAT & NTFS file systems. In addition, this tool can recover lost emails from MS Outlook & Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, & 2000.