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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 [...]

You might lose all of your valuable data, which is stored in All Users folder and settings and default program template that are stored in Default User folder after reinstalling, upgrading or repairing Microsoft Windows XP. You might be missing all documents, music files, pictures that are stored in Shared Documents folder, Startup group items [...]

Microsoft Windows XP is a popular and probably the most widely used version of Microsoft Windows, series of operating systems. It has a wide range of powerful features that make it a reliable and advanced operating system. But in some situations, installation of MS Windows XP might suffer some issues such as damage to some [...]

In Microsoft Windows, Bootcfg.exe is a command-line utility that is used to modify Boot.ini file. It has a function, which scan the hard drive of your computer and then add them to existing Boot.ini file or creates a new Boot.ini file if it doesn’t exist. You can use Bootcfg.exe command for adding extra Boot.ini file [...]

Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data or BCD is a firmware independent database required by computer to get configuration information at boot time. It has similar functionality that Boot.ini file performs in earlier versions of Windows. On computers using IBM PC compatible firmware, the file is located on system volume in BootBCD. If the file goes [...]

If a Windows system undergoes unexpected shutdown, an automatic disk check runs that examines the disk for file system errors. Once the process starts, it should not be interrupted in anyway or otherwise can cause unrecoverable errors. Apart from rendering the data inaccessible, it can introduce several corruption errors to critical data structures of the [...]

You can install Windows XP in dual-boot configuration with an existing Windows NT based operating system. Such installation allows you to choose either of the operating systems while starting the computer system. At times, when Windows XP is configured for dual-boot, it might fail to start displaying an error on screen. This might occur if [...]

On a Windows installed computer, you can install Linux as the second operating system. To proceed Linux installation, you need to create /boot partition using free space available on the hard disk or by shrinking the existing Windows partition. You are not recommended to abort the Linux installation while the Setup is creating space for [...]

In Microsoft Windows operating system, you can expend or resize the hard drive partitions using third party utilities. These tools can be used on both Dynamic disks and Basic disks. Before you can run these utilities, you must list and then select object to give it focus. In some cases, when you expend a Windows [...]

Each physical disk is partitioned into several partitions. The disk MBR (Master Boot Record) and optionally EBRs (Extended Boot Records) hold the metadata information of these partitions. These tables collectively form partition table. Partition tables can get corrupt for several reasons, causing different symptoms, including but not limited to the one discussed later. In any [...]