Recovering Corrupt Partition In Windows Xp System

A Master Boot Record (MBR) is the 512-byte boot sector that is the first sector of a partitioned information storage tool such as a hard disk. It's a significant role in method bootstrapping, disk identity, & disk partitioning. It is the main program that is used for bootstrapping the operating method after BIOS executes the machine code instructions. Sometimes, the first sector of the partition gets corrupted because of various reasons such as power fluctuations, human errors, abrupt method shutdown, virus infections, damaged operating method, etc. In such situations, you ought to make use of the Recovery Console to fix the MBR to resolve the issue. However, in case you are unable to solve the issue then you ought to make use of a third-party partition recovery application to recover Windows partition.

Think about a scenario wherein your Windows XP method fails to boot up when you start it. A mistake message is displayed, that is:

Operating method not found.

Missing operating method.

& when you start the computer from Recovery Console to fix the errors, you will get the following error message:

Setup did not find any hard drives installed on your computer.

Cause:

There could be various reasons for such behaviour such as:

The hard disk is broken.

An incompatible partition is marked as Active.

Sector 0 of the physical hard disk drive has an incorrect or malformed master boot record (MBR).

A partition that contains the MBR is no longer active.

The basic input/output method (BIOS) does not detect the hard disk.

Resolution:

To resolve this issue, you can perform the following methods:

Confirm the BIOS settings: Check whether your system's BIOS settings are proper to make definite that BIOS lists & recognizes the hard disk.

Use Recovery Console: Use the Recovery Console to run the fixmbr command to repair the MBR of the method drive.

The aforementioned methods ought to be able to resolve the error message. However, in case you are unable to address the situation then you ought to make use of a third-party Windows partition recovery application to recover the partition. Such read-only tools can recover information using quick yet sophisticated scanning algorithms.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Information Recovery application is a partition recovery application that lets you recover lost, deleted, or formatted partitions. It can recover information from both FAT & NTFS file systems. In addition, this partition recovery application can recover deleted emails from MS Outlook & Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, & Server 2000.