Recover Data from NTFS Partition

Main Sources of Data Loss in NTFS Partition

Various causes that are responsible in user data, data within table including table information, disk partition and root directory content that can be lost.  Hardware/software failure or code effects, accidental deletion of files are few dangerous reasons that lead to devastation of procedure information that defines these files. The damage in files systems can also cause the crucial data lost. There are numerous reasons that data accessibility and integrity desecration in NTFS partition:

• The unexpected removal of records
• Corruption in boot sector of NTFS drive
• Corruption in MFT data
• Corruption in file system partition
• Destruction in Partition table containing information of FAT/NTFS partition. Due to corruption in table windows XP cannot recognize NTFS logical disk during booting of system.
• Partition table is empty due to incorrect value of partition parameters.
• Number of viruses create problem which can cause issues or corruption in boot sector of NTFS drive.

There are a number of well-known viruses, which can cause problems with the NTFS boot sector. In some cases, the damage to the partition boot sector can generate the following error message like "blue screen": STOP 0x00000078 INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.
Therefore, in order to access the data stored on such a logical disk, you need to recover the boot sector of the NTFS logical disk.

Investigation of Data Recovery Principles

During data loss condition first things you need to know is the causes of data corruption so before you start the recovery process you need to know few things such as what type of data is lost, where the data is allocated, chances of data recovery.

Commonly entire lost data divided into three parts

• Files and folders
• Applications installed on PC
• System related files

In terms of data recovery user first need to concern about which type of recovery they will need. Means some of the facility available in system itself. Using these tool user can be able to recover system files by himself. Take regular backup so at the time of data loss, user can restore data from backup itself.

Manual Process of Data Recovery 

• At the time of data inaccessibility, the number of recovery mode can be applied manually.
• Data recovery at the time of unpredicted deletion of files/folders
• Data recovery when corruption occurs in partition table.
• Data recovery from problematic boot sector of NTFS partition.
• Data recovery from corrupted NTFS partition
• Data recovery when corruption take place in MFT data