Division of a hard drive into various partitions enables you to install various operating systems in the hard drive. A hard drive partition can get corrupted due to various reasons such as operating system corruption, file system damage, Master Boot Record (MBR) corruption, malicious software like virus and more. Corruption of a hard disk partition results in an error message that does not allow you to boot the operating system. In addition to that, the error message makes the data saved on the hard drive partition inaccessible. For complete recovery of inaccessible data, you need to restore it from the latest backup. However, if you have not maintained any backup or the backup is not up-to-date, you need to recover and restore your precious data by using advanced Partition Recovery software.

Consider a practical example, where you receive the below error message when you attempt to boot your system:

“No bootable Partition”

You encounter the same error message each time you attempt to boot the system. Additionally, the data saved in the hard drive becomes inaccessible.

Cause:
The main reasons for the occurrence of the above error message are:

•The partition is not marked as Active.
•Physical cables attached to the hard drive are either not connected or are damaged.
•Corrupted MBR (Master Boot Record).
•Software bugs

Resolution:
To resolve the above error message and access the data saved in the hard drive partition, you need to follow these steps:

•Mark the hard drive partition as “Active”
•Check and reattach all the cables connected to the hard drive.
•Run FDISK /MBR from a bootable floppy to repair and restore the MBR.

However, if all the above steps fail to boot your system and you still encounter the same error message, you need to reinstall the operating system. A clean operating system reinstall erases all data from the selected hard drive partition. In such circumstances, you should use effective partition recovery software. Such partition recovery tools comprehensively recover and restore all the lost files and folders by employing powerful scanning algorithms. It becomes easy to apply these utilities as they have user-friendly interface. You can use them without any prior technical knowledge as they come with simple, easy-to-understand recovery screens with graphical documentation.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most feature-rich partition recovery software. It can easily recover data from lost, deleted, corrupted or formatted partitions and volumes. It is compatible with FAT16, FAT32, vFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system based windows partitions and volumes. It supports Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.