External hard drives attached to your computer help you to increase the storage capacity of your system. While storage devices provide you large storage space, they might also result into a STOP error message under heavy stress conditions. One of the major outcomes that you might encounter after the error message is inaccessibility of data saved in the storage media. To overcome such data loss situations, you will need to restore the data from an up-to-date backup. However, in case of absence of an up-to-date backup, data recovery software comes to rescue.

As a practical case, you receive any of the below error messages when you use USB 2.0 hard disks under heavy stress situations in Windows XP operating system:

“STOP 0x000000FE(parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER”

Or

“BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER (fe)”

In a USB Driver bugcheck, the first parameter is a USB bugcheck code that has the below arguments:

Ø Argument 1: 00000002, BAD_URB. The USB client driver has submitted a USB Request Block (URB) that is still attached to another Input/Output (I/O) request packet (IRP) that is still pending in the USB driver.

Ø Argument 2: 8162ea78, Address of the pending IRP.

Ø Argument 3: 81707950, Address of the IRP that is passed in.

Ø Argument 4: 8156db7c, Address of the URB that caused the error.

Data stored on the hard drive becomes inaccessible after the above error message appears on you computer. In addition, you receive the 0xFE message each time you try to boot your system.

Cause:

The above error messages primarily occur because in the NT Kernel two threads try to start an I/O operation on the same packet.

Resolution:

To resolve the above error messages and access the data, you need to follow these steps:

1. Install the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows XP.
2. Apply the Hotfix solution provided by Microsoft.
3. Restart your system

However, if any of the error messages appear even after applying the Hotfix solution, then you need to reinstall Windows XP. A fresh reinstall of Windows XP will completely erase the data from the selected hard drive partition. For complete recovery of data in such circumstances, you need to go for advanced data recovery software. These data recovery utilities employ high end scanning mechanisms to recover lost data. Built with highly interactive user-interface, automated recovery procedure and advanced features, these data recovery tools serve as precise and recovery centric tools.