A driver is a program that allows the hardware peripheral such as, keyboard etc. to communicate with a computer system. Installation of an incorrect driver for one or more hardware in Windows operating system might result in various error messages. These error messages do not allow the user to perform any further operations on the computer system as the user looses the system control. In major driver corruption issues, to perform regular operations and successfully access data, the user needs to reinstall the operating system after troubleshooting the driver issue. In such situations, if there is no back up available, then the user needs to use effective Data Recovery Software to recover data after operating system reinstall.
Consider a practical scenario, where a user receives any of the below error messages while working on the Windows XP computer system:
¡°STOP: C0000221 unknown hard error
Path\File_name¡±
Or
¡°STOP: 0xC0000221 unknown hard error
C:\Winnt\System32\Ntdll.dll¡±
Or
¡°STOP: 0xC0000221 STATUS_IMAGE_CHECKSUM_MISMATCH
Path\File_name¡±
File_name is name of the corrupted or damaged file
Cause of above error:
The main cause of the above error message is that the file described in the error message is corrupted or damaged. Windows XP operating system checks these files for integrity during the computer system startup:
? All driver files, excluding the files that loaded using the system loader to start your system.
? All DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) on the system. These include Graphics Driver Interface (GDI), User, Ntdll, Crtdll, Shell, Kernel and several other DLL files on the system.
The above issue mainly occurs when the user has installed an inappropriate driver for any of the hardware peripheral. The above problem can also occur if an Iomega Zip drive is on the same Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) cable as the hard disk drive.
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Resolution of the above problem:
The user can resolve the above problem by removing the corrupt driver from the computer system and then reinstall the exact driver. The user can remove the driver by using the Device Manager in properties of My computer. After the user has completely removed the corrupt driver and still cannot boot the system in normal mode, he needs to reinstall the operating system. Such operating system installations should always be clean reinstalls for a home user; otherwise the default Windows directory issue arises. It results in loss of valuable data, to recover which the user needs to use third party utilities known as Data Recovery Software. Such Data Recovery utilities incorporate influential scanning algorithms and file signature recognition techniques to recover all lost files.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery software is a read only application, which provides absolute and systematic Data Recovery. This Data Recovery application is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, Server 2003 and 2000. It supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 based Windows partitions. This Data Recovery Software natively supports more than 300 popular file types. The user can additionally enhance this by adding hexadecimal and decimal header information of the lost files that he needs to recover.
