A hard drive failure or damage can be caused while a user is performing certain normal operations, or due to certain external factors like, heat, water, high magnetic waves, natural calamities etc. A physically damaged hard drive can halt the functioning of operating system and stop the user to access the data stored in the hard drive. In such situations, if the user has not created any backup of the inaccessible data, then he needs to take help of Data Recovery services. As a practical scenario, when a user attempts to install Microsoft Windows XP on a hard drive that is formatted with NTFS (New Technology File System), he encounters the below error message:Stop: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): \SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternateThe above error message appears after Windows XP copies the installation files to the hard drive and the computer system restarts. After the above error message appears, the data saved in the hard drive becomes inaccessible. These can be the two main reasons for the above error message:
• The hardware where you are trying to install Windows XP may not be compatible with Windows XP.
• The hard disk where you are trying to install Windows XP may be physically damaged.To resolve the above error message and access the data, the user needs to follow these steps:• The user needs to make sure that the hard drive is compatible with Windows XP. If the hard drive is not compatible, then he needs to connect a hard drive that supports Windows XP.
• The user can use the Recovery Console to confirm that the hard drive is not damaged.
• If the hard drive is damaged and cannot be repaired, The user needs to replace the hard drive.By replacing the hard drive with one that supports Windows XP, the user can successfully install the operating system. To recover the data from a physically damaged hard drive, the user needs the assistance from a Data Recovery organization. A Data Recovery company provides Data Recovery service to completely recover the files from a physically damaged hard drive.
Stellar Information Systems Limited, the ultimate Data Recovery company, provides the number one Data Recovery service. The highly knowledgeable Hard Drive Recovery experts at Stellar recover data from all kind of storage media such as, hard drive, USB Flash drives, ZIP diskettes, CD, DVD, Floppies, Memory sticks and Flash Drives like SSD (Solid State Drive). The Hard Disk Recovery experts recover data under Class 100 Clean Room facility. So, if you come across any kind of data loss due to physical hard drive failure, Stellar can provide the most high quality and precise Data Recovery service.
k madhav is a student of Mass Communication doing research on File Recovery Software. He is also a freelancer for Data Recovery.
