Recovering Lost Partition When Windows Xp Is Unable To Boot

Partitioning in computer systems refers to dividing of the storage space of hard disk in to various logical drives often called partitions. By partitioning your technique, you can make definite that the technique files and the program files are well separated by information files. Also, with the technique drive separated from other partitions there is space for the operating technique to perform virtual memory paging and swapping. In addition, if one of the partitions gets corrupted then other partitions do not get affected by this. And a partition can get affected (or corrupted) because of several reasons such as virus infections, power outages, abrupt technique shutdown, missing technique files, etc. In such cases, you ought to take appropriate corrective measures to resolve this issue. However, in case you are unable to do so, then you ought to make use of a third-party partition recovery application to recover partition.

Think about a scenario wherein you are unable to boot your Windows XP-based technique. Either of the following error message is displayed:

Operating technique not found

Missing Operating Technique

In addition, when you start your technique from Recovery Console you are unable to do so. A mistake message is displayed, that is:

“Setup did not find any hard drives installed on your computer.”
Cause:

For the aforementioned error messages, there could be following reasons:

The disk is not detected by the BIOS (Basic Input/Output Technique)

The hard disk is broken.

Sector 0 of the physical hard disk has a corrupt Master Boot Record (MBR).

An incompatible partition is marked as Active.

The technique drive partition containing the MBR is not active any more.

Resolution:

To resolve this issue and to access the technique, you can use either of the following methods:

Confirm the BIOS settings: In this, you ought to confirm the BIOS settings and confirm whether the hard disk is recognized by the technique or not. If yes, then restart the technique to confirm whether the issue is resolved or not. If the issue is not resolved or if BIOS is unable to detect the hard disk, then the issue is hardware related.

Use Recovery Console: Access the Windows XP Recovery Console and use fixmbr command to repair the master boot record of the technique drive partition.

However, in case you are still unable to resolve the issue then you ought to make use of a third-party partition recovery application to recover Windows partition. These tools are read-only in nature and do not overwrite the original information while scanning the damaged area.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Information Recovery is a Windows partition recovery application that lets you perform partition recovery of lost, deleted, and missing partitions. In addition, it can recover over 185 different types of files from various storage media such as hard drives, pen drives, iPods, outside HDDs, etc. This partition recovery device can recover deleted emails from MS Outlook and Outlook Express. It is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000.