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Sometimes the valuable information in your system may be lost due to system crash. In order to recover the valuable information from the system the recovery options are much helpful to get back his information. Sometimes people delete their files out of hesitation and then need the file back, at that time it is usually best to search in recycle bin. Even if he deleted from the recycle bin, the file can likely be recovered using a 3^rd party utility of some type. Because deleting a file from the disk means the operating system just mark the sectors as free so that it is used. So before another file return to the destination we can recover the deleted files. For that a lot of software is available in the market such as system mechanic, get data back and much more.

Sometimes installing some critical software makes the system panic. In that situation the system cannot able to boot normally. To overcome this following steps are useful:

First restart the system and get into safe mode by pressing F8. There uninstalling the software which causes the crash relieves the system to boot normally.

Sometimes the registry settings may not revert and still it refuses to boot normally. To recover this windows gives a build-in system restore point. This utility can be launched by

start -> Run and type Msconfig. This launches a dialog box, Select Launch system restore. This launches a wizard system restore. There we can able to create a system restore point or Restore my computer to an earlier time. Select the Restore my computer to an earlier time, and select next, which gives a calendar where we can find some set of dates, marked where the restore points are available. Select the date where the system to be restored and select next which confirms the action and the system will be restarted and restored to the selected date settings.

To set the restore point click start -> Run and type Msconfig. This launches a dialog box, Select Launch system restore, there select create a system restore point and click next, which asks the restore point description and click on create creates the restore point for the selected time. Then at any time it can be restored to the selected restoration point.

Some third party tools like RESTORE IT is used to restore the whole partition to a restoration point. This software takes a separate disk space for backing up the whole partition and it can be restored during system startup. So if there is problem in getting into windows we can easily restore it to the fresh installation state. But this will lead to loss of information stored in the recovered partition including My Documents and desktop. Win rescue, System Restore are some of the programs available to recover system from crash.

In Windows Vista a set of tools called Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) helps to recover from serious errors which may prevent windows from booting successfully. For Vista WinRE must be installed and it can be accessed by pressing F8.

This contains

• Startup Repair - Fixes boot errors in windows startup process.
• System Restore - Restores the system to a previous working state or restore point using windows shadow copy service.
• CompletePC Restore - restore the complete PC from the disk image stored in the disk.
• Command Prompt - allows full control to the file system.

These are the options used to recover windows from the serious booting or some critical problems causes panic.