Are you unable to see and access your Windows hard drive partitions? Is your system unbootable? Are you encountering error messages while accessing a Windows partition or booting up your system? Such issues may occur if an important Windows data structure gets damaged i.e. Partition Table. After corruption of the partition table, operating system cannot locate and access the hard drive partitions, including active partition. In such situations, Windows Partition Recovery is the easiest procedure to follow for absolute recovery of lost partitions and stored data.
Partition Table is a critical Windows data structure, which contains significant information about the primary and the extended partition. It is a 64-byte metadata structure, located in same sector as of MBR (Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 1). The Windows partition table adapts to a standard layout that is autonomous of Windows operating system. The signature word of the sector is stored on last two bytes of sector.
The partition table can have maximum 4 entries, each one is 16 bytes long. Every partition entry includes fields for the Boot Indicator, Starting Head, Starting Sector, Starting Cylinder, System ID, Ending Head, Ending Sector, Ending Cylinder, Relative Sector, and Total Sectors. Therefore, boot loader can easily assume size and location of partitions. Boot loader searches for “Active” partitions and passes control to partition boot sector to load the operating system.
If the partition table entries are invalid or incorrect, you may experience the below behaviors:
• If there is not active partition, you encounter “Operating System not found” error message and system cannot boot up.
• If active partition does not contain system files, you may see “Non-System Disk or Disk Error” error and system remains unbootable.
• If the partition entry is deleted, it becomes invisible and inaccessible.
• If partition entry is damaged, you may come across “Missing Operating System” error message.
In all such situations, you come across serious partition loss situations and need Partition Recovery to recover your lost partition.
You can Recover Partition in a quick and effective way using Partition Recovery Software, after partition table corruption. They are incorporated with a set of advanced scanning techniques to ensure absolute recovery in all cases of partition loss. The applications are totally safe and easy to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution for all cases of partition loss. The software recovers lost FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS, and NTFS file system partitions after partition table corruption, virus infection, accidental deletion, and similar situations. It is designed for MS Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000.