How To Deal With Corrupted Windows Partition

By Author: David robertson
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Hard disk is the major storage component in computer’s memory where we save our data and install software. The users can store huge amount of data and manage it. In order to easily mange valuable data inside the hard drive, the hard disk is divided into various partitions. The major benefit of creating partitions is it helps you in preventing data loss situations when your operating system crashes. But, in some cases the partition also gets corrupted or deleted due to some reasons which lead in great data loss and the users cannot find the way to access the data. Both the NTFS and FAT partition system may get corrupted causing inaccessibility in the data. While accessing the data from the corrupted partitions of the hard drive, the user may face several peculiar error messages prompting on the screen. In this case, you definitely need some recovery mechanism to sort out the problem.

File Allocation Table (FAT) and New Technology File System (NTFS) are the two common partition systems used in Windows operating system. Both the systems have extensive features to keep your valuable data safe in case of improper system ...
... shutdown and system crash. However, there are various reasons which are responsible for the corruption in Windows hard drive partition. The most common causes are:

1.Virus infection- Viruses are malicious programs that may cause severe damage to the file system and system data structures.

2.File system corruption- File system, one of the most significant data structures of Windows system when gets corrupted all the data become lost. As file system keeps record of all the files on partitions, the partitions become raw and operating system cannot locate the stored files when it corrupts.

3.Partition table corruption- Partition Table, one of the critical data structures which keeps the information about all partitions, when gets corrupted partitions cannot be located or accessed.

4.Hard drive formatting- It is the process of removing all the partitions and stored data from hard drive. Unintentional hard drive formatting can cause partition loss.

Losing partitions from the hard drive creates severe problem to the users. The problem seems bigger when you need to access some important data from the operating system but you can’t due to the corruption in the partitions. when a partition is accidentally deleted, not only the data residing inside the partition is deleted but also the space where the data has been written initially stored gets completely overwritten by new data. But, the deleted data still can be found by using commercial partition recovery tools.

RecoveryFix for Windows is a sophisticated partition recovery freeware that successfully recovers all data lost due to accidental or intentional partition deletion. It is capable of recovering data lost due to damage or deletion of partition structure, corruption in the Windows file system or software failure. Embedded with integrated scanning modes, this software extensively searches all lost or deleted files and presents thousands of recovered data. Being suitable for both NFTS and FAT partition system, this software is available with its free evaluation version.

The author has in-depth knowledge in reviewing the performance of various partition recovery tools. The author has suggested many partition recovery freeware.