Stop Error Message Interrupts Windows Partition Extending Process

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server is a popular and advanced server operating system by Microsoft Windows. It includes a wide range of features, which make it more reliable, stable, and business-oriented. One such feature is to facilitate partition extending. The operating system enables you to extend a hard drive partition as per your storage requirements. You can extend a Windows hard drive partition using either Disk Management Snap-in or any third-party application. However, in some cases, the partition extending process gets interrupted and the hard drive data becomes totally inaccessible. This behavior leads to significant data loss and you need hard drive recovery to get your valuable data back.

In a practical scenario, you may come across an error message similar to the following one, when you attempt to extend a Windows hard drive partition using any third-party application:

“A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer. If this message appears again, follow these steps:
Disable or uninstall any anti virus , disc defragmentation or backup utilities. Check your hard drive configuration, and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
Technical Information
Stop 0x00000024 (0x0019033c, 0xf016e7a0, 0xf016e49c, 0xe061dcdc)”

The partition resizing process gets halted after the above error message. In this case, Windows can not recognize such partition and it become inaccessible. To get your valuable data back from affected hard drive, you have to fix this problem using hard drive data recovery solutions.

Cause

This behavior might occur if application uses following FSCTLS and IOCTLS control codes for extending a partition:

FSCTL_EXTEND_VOLUME
IOCTL_DISK_UPDATE_PROPERTIES
IOCTL_DISK_GROW_PARTITION

Resolution

You can try out the below methods to sort out this problem:

• Obtain the latest service pack of Microsoft Windows 2003 Server operating system.
• Delete and recreate Windows hard drive partitions. However, it causes critical data loss from hard drive.
• Use third-party hard drive recovery software to get your data back.

The hard drive data recovery applications are specifically invented to scan entire hard drive using high-end scanning techniques and extract all lost data from it. They come equipped with interactive and rich graphical user interface to offer easy recovery in all data loss situations.

Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution to retrieve lost data from hard drive and other Windows-supported storage media. The software is usable with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000 operating systems. It supports recovery from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, FAT16, and FAT12 file system partitions.

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A Windows Data Recovery software that recovers lost, deleted, and formatted data from NTFS, FAT, and exFAT file system based computers. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a useful data recovery software to recover your lost, deleted, formatted MS Office documents, such as Word, Excel, Power Point files. The tools recovers lost files, photos, audio and video files, emails, database files and saves them into a new file in a user-defined location.

The software is available with a BOOT CD that enables you to recover your vital data in case your computer system is unbootable in the Professional and above licenses. This Windows data recovery application works on various storage media, such as hard drives, iPods, memory cards, external hard drives, pen drives.

The Windows recovery software is available in two special editions: 'Home' and 'Professional’

Key Features of Windows Data Recovery(Home):

• Recovery of deleted data.
• Recovery of data from formatted volumes.
• Supports FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file systems.
• Recovery of data from volumes that no longer exist in hard disk.
• Recovery of data from removable media such as pen drive.
• Categorizing of recovered files in audio, video, documents and photos sections.
• Search option to find files fitting specified criteria.

Key Features of Windows Data Recovery(Professional):

• Recovery of deleted data
• Recovery of data from formatted volumes
• Recovery of data from volumes that no longer exist in hard disk
• Recovery of data from removable media such as pen drive
• Restart recovery at any time
• Recovery of e-mail, which are supported by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express
• Cloning of hard disk
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How often you have found yourself in the middle of nowhere when you realize that there is an accidental file deletion. I know that because it has happened with me many a times. There could be lot many reasons for accidental file deletion such as:

• Emptying Recycle Bin.

• Hard deleting file(s) using 'Shift+Delete'.
• Deleting files/folders through DOS
• Virus Infections
• Improper or abrupt system shutdown
• Power outages
• Cross linked files
• Corrupt operating system

In such cases, one would think that the file is permanently deleted. However, that is not entirely true. Such files can be recovered if you take some precautions. However, Windows does not offer any in-built file recovery utility to recover deleted files. In such cases, you should use third-party data recovery software

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To start with, a file that is deleted, that is removed from the Recycle Bin remains there in the hard disk itself. There is a pointer of each and every file in the system that points to the location of these files. Each such pointer of all the files and folders is actually saved in a part near the beginning of the hard disk, which is, in turn, used by the operating system to list down the directory tree structure. When the pointer is removed, it is an indication to the operating system that the space is available for new files and folders. However, as mentioned earlier, the file remains physically there and can be recovered. However, this can be done using third-party file recovery software. Such read-only tools are able to perform file recovery without overwriting the existing data by using fast yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

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