Saturday, January 19, 2008

Partition recovery from FAT & NTFS file System

In windows based systems, to store data effectively, we divide our hard drive into multiple partitions. It maximizes the storage space and helps us to prevent data loss events in case of operating system crash. Creating multiple partitions offers easy installation of the OS to the primary partition and we can save data on other partitions. The advantages of making multiple partitions proves helpful when the disaster strike; in such situation we can format the OS where the OS is stored without affecting data saved on other partitions.

But sometimes it happens that any particular partition of the drive disappears or become inaccessible. This situation occurs due to the partition corruption or deletion. There are several reasons that are responsible for this situation. Some most common reasons are: -
1. This situation may occur due to the firmware corruption. Firmware is the code that controls the hard drive accessing activities and its configuration. It is embedded in the physical hard drive.
In the event of such occurrence, the computer will prevent you from accessing any data from hard drive partitions. In such conditions, you may loss your precious data.
2. The situation of partition deletion or inaccessible data may occur due to the virus attack on your system. Virus may delete or corrupt your logical partition and may result in inaccessible logical drives.
3. Hard drive partitions may be deleted accidentally by the user. It is also a big reason of hard drive partition deletion. In such conditions, the data that particular partition contains may delete.

These are the most common events of occurrence of data loss. Any particular file and folder deletion may not be a serious problem but the deletion of the entire partition of the hard drive is really a very serious constraint. In such cases you need for data recovery software for recovering and restoring your lost partition.

Data recovery software is the software that provides partition recovery as well, for getting back your lost data. Actually when the partition is deleted to become inaccessible, in general, only it partition table entry is deleted from the table; and it become inaccessible, it still remains on the disk until it is overwritten. The recovery software locate these lost file systems and recreate the partition table.

Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery Software is such type of software that helps you to get your lost partition and data back. This is non destructive and read only data recovery software. It scans the specified logical or physical drive and displays the files in a tree structure. You can select required files from here and can save them to the original location or can specify the different location.

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