New Technology File System i.e. NTFS is basically a file system, which is developed by Microsoft Corporation for many versions of Windows Operating System including Windows XP. This NTFS file system came after the earlier FAT file system and therefore NTFS is more advanced than FAT, providing more consistency, better functionality and superior performance. NTFS File System makes use of fresh structure for easy data storage, file access and data handling processes. Now, you must be eager to know about NTFS structure's various system files, which perform specific operations; some of them are given below:

• Supports Numerous Data Streams: NTFS supports numerous data streams and each one of these data streams name recognizes new data attributes on the file. It is easy for you to reach to every data stream.
• The Reanalyze Points: The reanalyze points are the new objects of NTFS file system that consists of determinable properties with user-controlled information. These are used for augmenting the functionality in Input/Output subsystems.
• Alter Journals: This is used to log the records of all the changes, which are made to your Windows data files on NTFS partition.
• Data Encryption: Essential to improve the safety and security of data and to forbid any unauthorized access of your valuable data.

NTFS Data Corruption: Many times, when your Windows XP NTFS data structure gets corrupted due to several unavoidable and inevitable reasons; then, owing to this unfortunate occurrence, your partitions become inaccessible and thus, corruption leads to data loss. However, the good thing is that there is possibility to recover data from NTFS/NTFS5 data using some commercial Windows XP recovery for NTFS solution.

Error Messages That You See After NTFS Corruption: The time when your NTFS Files get corrupted, you can come across error messages on your system screen. Some of these error messages flashing on your screen are as follows:

• Event ID: 41

Source: Diskperf
Description: The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the device with label "Volume_name"

• Event ID: 55

Source: NTFS
Description: The system file structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume "Drive_letter:"

Recover Data from NTFS or NTFS5: To get rid of the aforesaid error messages and any other error messages popping up due to NTFS data corruption, you need to perform NTFS data recovery for Windows XP using some Windows XP data recovery software. You can use SysTools Hard Drive Data Recovery software to recover data from NTFS and to recover data from NTFS5. The process to recover data from NTFS partition using this tool is very easy owing to the easy and user-friendly interface of the software.

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