Disk Defragmenter Fails to Initialize

Disk Defragmenter is a Windows utility that allows you to rearrange files in a way that they occupy contiguous storage locations on your hard drive. It helps minimizing head travel time and hence increases data transfer rate. Also, if you run Disk Defragmenter frequently, it helps preventing file system corruption. But at times, the utility fails to start due to operating system related issues. In such cases, you need to repair or reinstall the operating system and restore lost data from backup. However, if data backup is absent, not updated or damaged, Hard Drive Recovery Software can extract the lost or inaccessible data.

As a practical instance, when you try to defragment an NTFS (New Technology File System) volume in Windows 2000 using Disk Defragmenter utility, you might receive the following error message:

"Disk Defragmenter could not initialize"

The same error message might also be received when you try to analyze the NTFS volume. This issue is not observed with other hard drive olumes (with FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS file system).

Cause

The above error occurs when both of the below conditions are true:

NTFS volume is highly fragmented

MFT or Master File Table is highly fragmented

MFT is the NTFS metadata structure that holds all information about each file and folder on volume. It is stored as a relational database. To avoid MFT fragmentation, NTFS exclusively reserves 12.5% of volume size to store MFT. But when this space gets occupied, MFT starts getting fragmented.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, you need to reformat the hard drive partition and restore lost data from backup. For complete restoration of data, backup should be up-to-date and consistent. However, if you encounter issues with data backup, you need to opt for Hard Drive Data Recovery utilities which are unique tools to recover lost and deleted data.

Hard Drive Recovery Software incorporate powerful scannin lgorithms to safely revive the lost data. With advanced recovery abilities, self-descriptive interface and automated procedures, these applications serve as safe tools. Such software provide data recovery in each logical data loss case.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the finest hard drive recovery  application. The software can recover data from lost, deleted, corrupted or formatted Windows partitions and volumes. It is compatible with FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. The software supports recovery from Windows 7 (currently in RC1), Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.