Resolving “The file system structure on disk is corrupt..” Windows 7 Error

Image via CrunchBase

Are you getting 'Event ID 55' while booting your Windows 7 operating system-based computer? Is your Windows 7 hard drive unreadable and unusable due to corrupt file system structure? Well, it is a very critical situation that renders your system totally inaccessible. It is resulted by various factors like sluggish operating system, missing/corrupt system data structures, and hard drive logical structure errors. The problem generally occurs on NTFS file system partitions and leads to serious partition loss situations. In order to recover lost data and hard drive partitions at this point, NTFS data recovery is required.

As a practical instance of this behavior of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, you may run across the underwritten error message when you try to boot up your computer:

“Event Type: Error
Event Source: NTFS
Event ID: 55
Description:
The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume ”

If you run Chkdsk.exe utility to fix the issue, process gets interrupted halfway. The drive remains unusable and severe data loss occurs.

What causes 'Event ID 55' in Microsoft Windows 7?

The above problem may occur if the Windows hard drive partition or its file system is damaged. The corruption can be caused by any of the following reasons:

· You Windows hard drive has damaged data structures.

· The Input/Output requests, which are issued by file system to hard disk subsystem, may not have completed successfully.

What You need to do...

Try out any of the below methods to fix this problem-

Check state of NTFS file system and then repair it if required:

· Type chkntfs : at command prompt.

· If it says 'drive is dirty' then run chkdsk against it, otherwise the volume is not corrupt and no repair is required.

You can also try running the Chkdsk.exe utility manually to check out the integrity and consistency of the Windows hard drive.

If the above processes fails, you can make your drive functional by formatting it and reinstalling operating system. However, it is not safe from data point of view and requires NTFS file recovery to retrieve data, if applied.

You can successfully recovery your lost data using NTFS partition recovery software. The applications are particularly invented to systematically scan entire hard drive and recover lost NTFS file system partitions. NTFS data recovery with these tools is quite safe and easy.