Article by Shubham Malhothra

A user installs new software or hardware (peripherals) to add extra features and functionality to his system. In some cases, a user has to restart the system after software (like drivers) or hardware installation. However, a user can encounter a STOP error message after system restart. With the occurrence of STOP error, the boot process gets halted. In other words, our data files in the system become inaccessible post operating system crash. In such situations, the user needs to recover and restore lost data from most recent backup. But, if the user has not created any backup of the lost data or the backup is not up-to-date, he should use effective Data Recovery Software to recover lost data.

Consider a practical scenario, where a user has inserted a storage device into the card bus adaptor that is connected to a Windows Vista system. The storage device can be a Secure Digital (SD) memory card, a Compact Flash (CF) memory card or an external SATA (eSATA) hard drive, which is running in SATA Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) mode. The user encounters the below STOP error message, when he starts the computer system: