The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) in a Microsoft Windows computer is a boot firmware, which provides all of the boot information to computer processor for proper booting of your system. In the first physical sector of BIOS, MBR (Master Boot Record) is stored. MBR loads the first sector of your boot media, either hard drive [...]
Is your Windows system unbootable after marking the primary partition active? Are you getting error message about missing system files at startup? This behavior indicates that critical boot files of your Windows computer are missing and it cannot boot up. It renders your system unbootable and all your critical files inaccessible. This causes serious file [...]
In Microsoft Windows based computer, your hard drive can be divided into several partitions. A Windows hard drive can have maximum four primary partitions as the size of partition table is limited to 64 Byte and every partition entry require 16 Byte of space. You can mark any of your primary partition as active by [...]
The Windows registry is a database, comprising of several parts called registry hives. A hive is a logical group of keys, subkeys and values in the registry which has a set of supporting files containing backups of its data. When the Windows operating system like Windows 2000 Professional starts, it uses such hive files as [...]
Are you unable to boot your Windows XP computer in dual-boot configuration? Are you facing error messages on startup related to missing or damaged system files? If your answer is ‘Yes’ for any of these questions, you can not access your business-critical data from your Windows hard drive. Such situations may lead to severe data [...]
In Linux operating system, fsck (file system check) is a command-line utility that allows you to check file system and hard drive integrity. Using this tool, you can even fix some minor errors of file system. Generally, it runs automatically during system boot when Linux detects that the file system is not in consistent state, [...]
Data loss is a common problem to those who uses a computer. There is nothing more frustrating than losing the important documents that you’ve spent so much time creating — especially if you’re like most users who create documents directly on the computer and don’t have the benefit of a handwritten copy. I regularly receive [...]
The hard disk failure is a common physical failure issue. It is largely caused due to the disk controller failure. This is the circuit which acts as the intermediate between CPU and hard disk. The error messages “Hard Disk Controller Failure” or “HDD Controller Failure”, “Inaccessible Boot Disk”, hard disk not detected in the BIOS [...]
Hard disk is a main part of a system also known as hard drive, disk drive, HDD and etc. It is a fast and high capacity magnetic disk which is completely enclosed in a protective case inside the system, on which you can store large amounts of data. The disk storage data is including like [...]
When you run fsck on your Linux file system’s physical volume, sometimes you may encounter certain error messages. These error messages prevent you from accessing data from a particular volume. In such situations, technical experts recommend to use ‘pacman’ tool to upgrade the kernel and reboot your system to complete the operation. Pacman is a [...]
Data loss refers to unexpected loss of data or information stored on any storage device. This can happen either through data transformations or conversions where original data gets lost on which you may be working from a long time or years. There may be several reasons behind the same and virus attack is one of [...]
There are several informative signs which indicate that your computer hard drive might fail and thus you could lose your important data. These signs include the following: 1 System Boot Failure: When we make some changes to our system configuration like hardware upgrade, operating system update or driver upgrade we might face issues related to [...]
Ever emptied the Recycle Bin only to realize that you just deleted something you meant to keep? Ever formatted your D: drive by mistake instead of E:? Ever suffered from a malware which led to your computer crash? Have you ever been inaccessible to your drive and it popped up “Disk not formatted, do you [...]