Windows partition loss? the incompatibility? software player
When you upgrade to Windows XP from any earlier version of Windows, you might face one or more of below given symptoms:
v After the first reboot of Windows XP Setup, you may receive any of the following error messages:
? No operating system.
? Setup has determined that Drive C: is corrupted and cannot be repaired. To quit setup press F3.
? Windows could not start because of the following ARC firmware boot configuration problem. Did not properly generate ARC name for HAL and System path. Please check the windows documentation about ARC configuration options and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
? Stop: 0x0000007b (0xf898963c, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
v The setup might halt with a blank black screen after the first reboot.
v After completing the installation process, the secondary hard disk that worked fine in with other Windows operating system versions might appear to be corrupted or have zero byte of size.
After this behavior, the up-gradation process may stop and you can not boot your system. All of your stored data becomes inaccessible and you may fall in grave situations of data loss.
Grounds of this issue
You may encounter this behavior if you are using the hard drive overlay software for controlling your hard drive. Few versions of the drive overlay software might not be compatible with Microsoft Windows XP. Due to same, the upgrade process does not complete and you face the critical situations of Windows partition loss and thus the data loss.
To avoid this problem from being occurred in future, contact the vendor of hard drive recovery software to inquire about the fix for this problem.
จจ You should never use fdisk/mbr command from Windows startup disk or fixmbr command in the Windows XP Recovery Console. Both these commands would destroy the drive overlay MBR information and it might cause severe data loss.
To resolve this problem, you need to repartition and reformat your hard drive by using XP bootable CD and then reinstall a fresh copy of Windows XP. Formatting will remove all your hard drive partitions and then data from them. It will fall you in need of Partition Recovery.
Partition Recovery is best possible using powerful third party Partition Recovery Software such as Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. This robust software works well for both FAT and NTFS file systems and carries out efficient and smooth Partition Recovery. Phoenix Partition Recovery software is compatible with most of the Windows versions including Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.
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