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Posted on September 4, 2011 by

Tips to resolve “File not found” error message in BSD

Article by Andrew Watson

BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) is a UNIX operating system that contains various advanced features like improved security consistency, fine-grained privileged model, mandatory access control and more. Being a technical application, BSD is prone to corruption due to boot record damage, root directory corruption, inode table damage, superblock corruption, VTOC (Volume Table of Contents) damage, and software bugs. In most cases of BSD corruption due to any of the above reasons, you encounter an error message. Data saved in the hard drive becomes inaccessible after the above error message appears. To overcome such data loss scenarios, an ideal solution is to restore the data from an updated backup. However, if no up-to-date backup is maintained, then you will need to opt for advanced BSD Data Recovery software.

As a practical case, you encounter the below error message, when you try to startup your BSD based system:

“File not found”

Data stored in the hard drive becomes inaccessible after the above error message appears. In addition, you encounter the same error message each time you attempt to start your system.

Cause:

The root cause for the occurrence of the above error message is corruption in root directory. The root directory is primarily responsible for controlling and managing all the files and directories of the BSD operated system. Few of the directories that a root directory contains are /lib, /lost+found, /bin, /boot, /dev, /etc, /home, /initrd, /sbin, /tmp, /usr and /var.

Resolution:

For complete repair of root directory and access of data stored on the hard drive, you will need to use tools like “Recovery Disc.” These tools enable you to repair the root directory in complete and systematic manner. However, if these tools are unable to repair the root directory and you still receive the above error message, then you will need to reinstall BSD operating system. A clean reinstall of BSD operating system erases all the data stored on the selected hard drive partition or volume. For complete recovery of data after reinstalling BSD operating system, you will need to opt for advanced BSD Data Recovery software. Such BSD Recovery utilities are built with highly graphical user interface, which makes them self-explanatory.

Stellar Phoenix BSD Data Recovery software is a trust worthy BSD Recovery utility. The software is applicable for UFS1 and UFS2 file systems and for all the three BSD distributions viz. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. The read only software is designed for Windows 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98 and 95.

Andrew Watson has 6 Years of Experience in the Software Technology researching with Stellar which offers sco data recovery and drive wipe.