Sometimes when you attempt to access files from an NTFS file system partition of a Windows computer, the process may fail due to errors like file or directory corruption. At this point of time, all your critical data files, application files, multimedia files and library files become inaccessible and you encounter serious file loss. To overcome such situations, you need to opt for File Recovery solutions.

While accessing files from an NTFS file system based Windows hard drive, you might encounter the below given error message:

“The file or directory is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility.”

Along with this error message, you may also encounter the following error message which states the inaccessibility of NTFS partitions, which makes all your business critical files inaccessible:

“NTFS partitions not accessible.”

In such situations, the most important thing is to retrieve your lost or inaccessible files. To do so, you need to find out the cause of this problem and perform File Recovery.

Root of this issue

This problem may occur due to partition corruption because of faulty file system. In this case, the damaged partition would be shown as blank when you check ‘Disk Management’ (Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc). File system corruption may occur due to operating system errors, improper system shutdown, application malfunction, virus infection and other similar reasons.

If you are experiencing this problem on a Windows server, where a number of computers are connected with many CPU’s, then it could be due to Racing Condition. If two different threads are attempting to edit same file or directory, this problem might occur.

Solution

In order to resolve this problem, you should ideally use the CHKDSK utility. This is an in-built utility of Windows operating system that is helpful in detecting minor file system corruption and fixing it.

Although CHKDSK can fix some file system problems, but it is not useful in serious file system corruption scenarios. In such cases, you should opt for File Recovery Software to ensure complete and easy extraction of your missing, lost or inaccessible files.

These software use powerful scanning procedures to scan the affected hard drive, locate the lost files and achieve absolute Deleted File Recovery. These software are completely safe to use with read-only conduct and enable you to achieve quick and trouble-free recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best File Recovery solution to achieve absolute recovery of all types of files. This software supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems based partitions and volumes. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

Robin Watson a student of Mass Communication doing research on file recovery software. He is also a freelancer for http://www.partitionrecovery-software.com

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