Windows Partition Recovery

Perform Successful Windows Partition Recovery With An Impeccable Tool

Partitions in an operating system are physical sections into which the physical space of the hard disk is divided. A partition table stores information like starting and ending point of partitions, name and size of all the partitions of the operating system. These partitions are also prone to get damaged due to various reasons. At times when you open the partitions, you may end up in finding nothing. Also it can happen that the data is present in the partitions, but is inaccessible. These are the situations which call for effective methods for lost partition recovery.

NTFS and FAT Partitions

1)    FAT (File Allocation Table)
In this fie system, the hard disk is divided into components. The hard disk is divided into circular rings called as tracks and these tracks are further divided into sectors. The data is stored in clusters located in sectors. It is the minimum space which is occupied by hard disk for data storage. Boot sectors store the information about the size of clusters.

2)    NTFS (New Technology File System)
It is an improvement to the FAT file system. In NTFS, access to the data in the hard drive is not given unless the username and password are provided. The hard disk that uses NTFS is less prone to corruption as compared to FAT file system.

Scenarios Leading To Inaccessible Partitions

There are many scenarios which lead to inaccessibility of partitions. Some of the reasons are:

•    Accidental Deletion
One of the common reasons which make partitions inaccessible is accidental deletion of partitions. Users accidentally delete the partitions and therefore all the data stored in the partitions get deleted and therefor urge a need to recover deleted partition.

•    Formatting Of Partitions
Formatting of a hard drive is done in order to erase all the older data from the hard drive in order to make space for storing new data. Formatting can be done either with NTFS or FAT file system. But when a wrong partition is formatted instead of the desired one, it leads to deletion of the data stored in the partition. Therefor a need arises to recover lost partition.

•    Invisible Partitions
Sometimes due to certain issues, some partitions cannot be detected by the system. The issues which are responsible for this are multi- boot setups, absence of name assignment of the partition and undetected external hard drive.

How To Perform Partition Recovery

•    Partitions Recovery Of Undetected Partitions
In case of formatted partition, recovery can be carried out manually by taking help of   recovery console. This utility can be employed if the partitions are not detectable due to missing or corrupted system files. Recovery console is a command line utility used for administrative tasks.

•    Partitions Recovery  Of Formatted Partitions
Formatted partitions can be recovered by copying the data to a new drive. This method will work out because when the partitions are formatted, the data is not deleted permanently, but is stored in the clusters. Therefore, when the data is moved to a new hard drive, it can become accessible.

Deploy Third Party Application

The above mentioned techniques can carry out partition recovery. But these methods do not guarantee complete recovery of partitions. There exists no manual method to recover NTFS partition after format. Therefore all such drawbacks of manual methods call for a more efficient method. A way out of this is to employ third party application like Hard Drive Data Recovery. The utility supports formatted partition recovery of both NTFS and FAT file systems. It recovers the lost, corrupted and deleted data from the hard drive partitions. It is equipped with 3 recovery modes- Recover Normal Data, Deleted Data and Formatted Partition.