NTFS data recovery when NTFS file system partition gets corrupt

Microsoft Windows operating system enables you to divide your hard disk drive into number of partitions for effective management of valuable data. Every Windows based computer has at least one system or boot partition that comprises of operating system for booting your computer. Rest of the partitions contain data and information. However, in case any of the partition corruption you might just lose important valuable data. This behavior results in severe data loss or partition loss and so will require NTFS data recovery, if you don’t have an updated or valid backup copy of the required data.

Any damaged boot or corrupt data partition that uses NTFS file system might show ‘stop 0X24’ error message while you access it. Hence, when you come across this error message while you reboot your computer or try to run the Windows Recovery Console, you might not be able to determine the root of this issue using general diagnostic steps. You might have to go with the method given below to perform NTFS Data Recovery:

1. Remove or turn the data disks off, which use the ntfs file system partitions

2. After identifying the issue with the disk, move your hard disk drive to another Microsoft Windows operating system based computer which is using a FAT32 or FAT 16 file system.

3. Utilize the ChkDsk /f utility to detect and fix file system related issues.

Utilize Windows operating system’s Recovery Console on Single Drive System:

If your system has only a single NTFS file system partition and no other Windows disks or computers are accessible, we suggest you to start your system from Setup disk to run Chkdsk utility and ntfs.sys driver disabled. Use the steps given below to repair NTFS file system partition and perform NTFS data recovery using the Recovery Console:

4. Start your system with the help of Windows 98 startup disk, insert Windows installation disk into the drive.

5. Change CD_ROM:\Support\Bootdisk folder, and run Makebt32.exe or Makeboot.exe for creating windows setup disks.

6. Alter Txtsetup.sif file with the help of notepad.

7. Start the affected system with the help of Setup.disk. Press F10 key on welcome screen to enter Recovery Console.

8. Run Chkdsk /p command to repair damaged partition.

9. Now quit the Recovery Console and reboot your computer system.

If the aforementioned method does not work, then use nice ntfs data recovery tool to recover corrupt or lost hard disk drive partitions. The application uses advanced scanning mechanisms to thoroughly scan the affected hard disk drive and extract all the deleted data from them. NTFS data recovery tool is designed to have user-friendly interface and so these utilities do not require any in-depth technical skills to perform ntfs data recovery. The NTFS data recovery tool can be installed on any version of Windows operating system to assist you retrieve the lost file and folders.