Microsoft Windows offers a tool known as DiskPart that can be used to manage volumes, partitions and disks in a computer system. The tool accepts command-line commands as well as scripts as its input. In order to carry out any management task through the utility, we need to select the target object. The tool executes a given command on the object that has been selected like a partition or a volume of a hard drive.

 There are few cases in which incorrect use of DiskPart causes data loss:

 

  • If the hard disk has been upgraded to dynamic disk then use of DiskPart utility is not recommended to change disk structure. If it is used then partition table can get damaged. So instead Disk Management should be used. Partition Table is a 16-byte entry in MBR that keeps records of system’s partitions and hence its corruption will require partition recovery to extract data.

 

  • The incorrect use of DiskPart can corrupt partition table. On basic disks, the partitions are deleted with focus. Thus incorrect partition focus and deletion causes data loss. Partitions lost in this way can be recovered through partition recovery software. A user can use help command in DiskPart to know more about the available options. 

 

  • Unlike basic disks, deleting a single partition on a dynamic disk deletes all other offline dynamic volumes. Thus, we need to use ‘delete volume’ command.

 

 Partition Recovery

Lost, missing or damaged partitions need to be recovered as they contain valuable data. So, all users must take regular data backup. An updated and systematic backup can be used to restore precious data from the lost partitions.

 

When an updated data backup is not available and we need our critical files back, we should go for data recovery from the lost partitions. The productive tools that recover data in all cases of logical corruption can be used for recovery of lost partitions or volumes. These partition recovery utilities are high end applications that generally possess self descriptive interface. These applications incorporate advanced scanning algorithms and file signature information to recognize and extract lost files.

 

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the ultimate partition recovery software to recover lost, missing and damaged partitions. It offers extensive set of features incorporating effective scanning and safe data restoration. It supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.