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How to Handle File Indexing Corruption in Microsoft Windows 7

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST

File Indexing is an allegedly useful feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It extracts critical information from files on hard disk and creates the “searchable keyword index” that Is used for making the file search more efficient. Using file indexing service, you can easily searching for a phrase, properly or word in a document, even without knowing name of the file that you want. In some situations, the indexing of file may get damaged and may access all your files inaccessible from Windows hard drive partition. In such cases, you need to opt for Windows Partition Recovery to get your valuable files recovered from affected Windows partition.

Unsuccessful Rollback Phase Cause Partition Loss in Microsoft Windows

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

Several users upgrade their operating systems from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows Vista. But in case if any error during the setup process, rollback phase is initiated. When you run the rollback phase, your system returns to previous installation of Microsoft Windows operating system

Stop Error “0x0000C1F5” May Cause Partition Loss in Windows Vista

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:03:00 EST

Kernel is a critical component of a Windows NT-based operating system. It sits between Executive and HAL and offers multiprocessor synchronization, interrupt and thread scheduling and dispatching and execution dispatching and trap handling

Stellar Releases New Update for Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:15:44 EDT

Stellar Information Systems Limited, the leading providers of advanced data recovery software and services, announces an update to its flagship product of Linux data recovery.

Bad File Descriptor Error in Linux

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:30:00 EDT

In a Linux system, files, blocks, directories, sockets and other items are referred by corresponding file descriptors. If your system is reporting errors that the file descriptor is bad, one of possible causes is that file system is corrupt and thus, you require restoring from backup

Linux Kernel Image Not Found

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:24:00 EDT

Linux boot process proceeds in steps. At first, BIOS selects the boot device and loads the boot sector. The boot manager then loads the kernel image in RAM to execute and run the setup code.

Linux Recovery - Tips & Tricks

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Partitions created in the hard drive enable you to install different operating systems. A partition table is positioned at the first sector (cylinder 0, head 0 and sector 1, Master Boot Record) of every hard drive. This table contains the information about locations and sizes on the hard drive. Corruption in a partition table can occur due to improper system shutdown, file system corruption, software bugs and more. Once the partition table is corrupted, the user may not be able to boot a particular operating system.

Linux: Mount Fails and Can’t Read Mounted File Systems Table

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:45:00 EDT

fstab and mtab are two important files found on Linux systems. The fstab file is also sometimes referred to as a file systems table or /etc/fstab. It is meant to list all the available disk partitions and disks. It also includes information about how these disks and partitions are integrated into file system of Linux. Its corruption sometimes leads to Linux Data Recovery needs.