Windows Server 2003 supports clustering. The major benefit that user gets in clustered environment is failover support for back-end applications and services that are ought to have data integrity and high availability. Windows Server 2003 allows extending hard disk partition in clustered environment using DiskPart.exe. The Extend command can be used in DiskPart utility that enables a user to extend a partition. But in some cases, user finds situations in which volume information is lost and hence Partition Recovery becomes necessary as the solution.
•DiskPart.exe is a volume, partition and disk managing tool for MS Windows. The tool can take command-line parameters or scripts as input. The command is followed by the partition or volume that is selected and kept at focus.
This command line tool can only be used to extend the hard disk partition if system fulfills certain set of requirements. Among these requirements, availability of some additional free space at the end of the existing drive is most important. But there are several cases in which Partition Recovery requirements may arise when user finds volume information loss. When a user implements DiskPart utility in order to change hard disk partition size in clustered environment and then moves the volume, an error may appear as:
“The system cannot find the path specified.”
The error occurs when user attempts to view the contents of volume through command prompt after using DiskPart extend partition operation and moving the volume. However, a hotfix is available to correct the issue, but the information already lost is only recoverable using partition recovery software.
Partition Recovery applications are safe and powerful tools to extract lost, missing or damaged partition information. These tools use algorithms that scan the disk to restore the data. Partition Recovery Software provide interactive interface to offer complete user friendliness. In order to use these applications, it is essential to get a healthy bootable hard drive or a different computer to install the recovery software. The affected hard drive can then be attached to the bootable hard drive or the system to recover lost or corrupted partitions. If we install the application on the affected hard drive, it will overwrite the inaccessible files.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery offers partition recovery using efficient scanning algorithms. This Partition Recovery Software is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. It supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems based Windows partitions and volumes.
