Windows File Loss while Changing Partitions in Triple Boot System

Sometimes when you merge partitions or change partition size in Windows, you may come across partition corruption or data inaccessibility like situations. These situations may make your system unbootable and cause critical file loss situations. To gain access your files in such situations, you are required to opt for File Recovery solutions.

In a triple boot system with Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Linux Red Hat, while merging the partitions or changing their size, you may get the following warning:

“GRUB would have to be overwritten.”

This behavior may result into lost GRUB. You can reinstall GRUB using Linux boot CD/DVD. But after reinstalling it, your Windows XP may become unbootable. In this case, your Windows 2003 operating system might work properly.

At this point, if you delete Red Hat partition to resolve the problem and use Windows XP CD to get into Recovery Console and use “fixmbr” command to fix the problem, it remove GRUB and lists two Windows operating systems XP and 2003. But you can boot with only Windows 2003.

In this case, when you try to boot from Windows XP, it gives you the following error message:

“Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
Winnt_root\System32\Ntoskrnl.exe”

As stated in the above error message, this problem occurs due to missing Ntoskrnl.exe file.

To resolve this problem, follow the given steps:

Boot your system in Recovery mode using Windows XP boot CD.

Type bootcfg/rebuild command to rebuild boot.ini file. Bootcfg is MS XP Recovery Console command which manipulates boot.ini file.

This method works in some situations, but sometimes it may not found XP partition. In such situations, the only way to fix this behavior is to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows XP.

This method is helpful in most of the situations but it also has a downside. Formatting deletes all your files from particular partition and leaves you in a situations of critical file loss.

To recover lost files in such situations File Recovery Software come for your rescue. These are powerful third party applications that are able to effectively scan your whole hard drive and extract all of the partitions and files from them.

These software come equipped with interactive graphical user interface and thus allow you to have Do It Yourself File Recovery without requiring sound and prior technical skills.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an advanced and powerful File Recovery Software that is helpful in retrieving your lost, missing or inaccessible files from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.