While Booting Windows Vista Stops Responding, What to do?

If you are a Windows vista user you must be aware of the fact that it's being considered as the most secure and the reliable Operating system. But as we all know that the bugs and the errors can't be ruled out permanently, thats the reason we face problems in Windows Vista too. The most commonly faced problem by the Vista users is of system failure. The symptom by which you can be sure that the it's a system failure is the system will fail to boot. The error displayed at this point in time will be STOP errors on screen.

This issue can occur if any one of the file required to boot the system is missing or damaged. The files can be the system file or the registry file. Th get rid of this situation you need to reinstall Windows Vista. Then restore the information from the current back up. But, what if in case you don't have backed up the data or the back up too is corrupt, it even might be the case that the back up is not up to date. Then in that case you will have to get the help from the third party data recovery software.
The data recovery software will be required in the worst case scenario lets see if every thing is in place then how to get rid of the situation.

Steps to follow if Windows Vista Stops Responding While Trying to Boot

• You should have a Windows Vista installation disc to fix the problem.
• Now insert the installation disc and boot your system
• You will be then prompted to select the language, select the desired language and click on next.
• Select the 'Repair your computer' option from the next screen.
• Then you will be prompted to select the operating system you wish to repair in the System Recovery Options.
• The next thing you need to do is to select 'Startup Repair' option
• this will automatically detect the problem there in the startup process and repair it.
• Once the process is complete press Finish.

You are done with it your system will now run as it was earlier. But, if in case you have the pre-installed recovery options in the system then in that case the Vista installation disc is not at all required. You just need to use the 'Startup Repair' tool and the problem will be solved.

How to make BKF recovery if the catalog files are missing

You might have faced the situation when you know that your system is at risk and can crash any time we always think of backing up the data. Most of us use the NT back utility for the backing up the data in windows operating system like Windows Server, 2003, XP, and 2000. The back up is created with a file extension .bkf. But we are talking about the scenario where the bkf files get corrupt. You might be thinking then whats the benefit of backing up the data. But this can happen due to human error, virus infection, power surges, incomplete data back up process and missing catalog files. What we need to do is to take the adequate corrective steps to recover the data from the situation.

Lets take a scenario to make it a bit more clear. So you took concurrent back ups of data on several location at a go. Now you want to restore the data but you are not able to do so. The error you find is that you are not able to locate the catalog files in the restore tab. The catalog file are tose which let the NT back up to restore the file from the bkf file. We have still not taken into consideration the the back up is not possible without any error message. And when the error message displays it can be anyone from the following errors.

1.Backup file contains data that is not recognized and cannot be used.
2.Unusable backup file. You must erase it, or choose another file.
3.Inconsistency encountered for the requested media

The reason beyond is that the back up file is corrupt due to any of the reasons mentioned above. One of the major reason can be missing catalog files of your backup data.

The catalog file gets corrupt when you simultaneously create on backup after the other, The catalog file share use identical time stamp. In this case as you were able see the restore tab and after that it displayed the error message its because, the backups were sometimes not displayed in the list and some time s it gets displayed. In such case only BKF recovery tool can help you recover data.