In Microsoft Windows operating system, unexpected system shutdown and disk corruption are the highest contributing factors for partition loss. The partition loss in these cases could be indicated by STOP errors on NTFS hard drive in Ntfs.sys file. The disk corruption and dirty system shutdown situations cause serious partition loss and thus you need to go for Partition Recovery solutions to retrieve lost, missing and inaccessible hard drive partitions.

In a practical scenario, when you try to reboot the system after a dirty system shutdown or hard drive corruption, you might come across the below STOP error message in Ntfs.sys file of NTFS file system partition:

“STOP 0x0000000A”

This behavior of Microsoft Windows causes causes critical partition loss situations by rendering all of your hard drive partition inaccessible. In such cases, identifying the problem and resolving it by carrying out Partition Recovery become essential.

Root of the issue

This behavior occurs while the NTFS file system attempting to mount a Windows partitions whose MFT (Master File Table) or the boot sector has got damaged. One feasible cause of the boot sector or MFT corruption is dirty system shutdown.

Resolution

In order to sort out this behavior of Microsoft Windows operating system, go through the below given steps:

Find out the partition, which is damaged.

Prevent the damaged Windows partition from being mounted and boot your computer.

Disable or remove one at a time until the system boots up.

Use Disk Editor for disabling the partition one at a time.

If the damaged partition is your boot or system partition, then you would most likely require to format that particular partition and reinstall Windows operating system and then restore partition information from the backup because there would be now way for booting after disabling partition.

Although, hard drive formatting is best way to resolve such issues, but it also cause complete partition loss as a downside. In these cases, you are required to opt for Partition Recovery Software to recover lost partitions and stored data.

These are highly automated applications, which allow you to carry out successful recovery without demanding much user interference and high technical skills. The Partition Recovery Software use most effective scanning algorithms to thoroughly scan the affected hard drive and retrieve all of the missing or lost Windows hard drive partitions.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most comprehensive application to recover lost Windows partitions in most of the cases. It supports recovery for all FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This non-destructive application is designed for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.