Article by K Madhav

External hard drives attached to your computer help you to increase the storage capacity of your system. While storage devices provide you large storage space, they might also result into a STOP error message under heavy stress conditions. One of the major outcomes that you might encounter after the error message is inaccessibility of data saved in the storage media. To overcome such data loss situations, you will need to restore the data from an up-to-date backup. However, in case of absence of an up-to-date backup, data recovery software comes to rescue.

As a practical case, you receive any of the below error messages when you use USB 2.0 hard disks under heavy stress situations in Windows XP operating system: