Quick guide to recover Windows partition
Partitioning is a process of dividing hard drive into multiple logical units of specific size. In order to make optimum utilization of storage space, most of the users divide their hard drive into different partitions. Having multiple partitions of hard drive facilitates to categorize and store files in a well organized way and it also helps to use different operating systems on same hard drive. Both Windows and Mac operating system supports partitioning the hard drive but the way of organizing files, directory structure and access privileges depends on the file system.
Sometimes Windows users end up with huge digital data loss due to deletion or loss of partition. An entire partition disappears due to various reasons. In case if you have deleted or lost a partition in your Windows hard drive, no need to worry. You can recover Windows partition at your finger tips without contacting any data recovery experts. This article describes the detailed procedure of how to perform Windows partition recovery. Prior to discussing recovery process, it is good to know how partitions get delete or lost. So let us see some of the common Windows partition loss scenarios.
- While deleting or re-partitioning Windows hard drive using Disk Management tool, users might accidentally delete some different partition apart from which they are intended to delete. In case if the backup of files stored in deleted partition does not exist, then it leads to huge amount of data loss.
- Sometimes due to hard drive crash there are chances of Partition table or Master Boot Record corruption. Since they are primary elements to access different partitions of Windows partitions, in case if they get corrupt, all the partitions become inaccessible.
- There are times in which an entire partition of Windows hard drive becomes inaccessible due to virus infection or file system crash. In order to access such partitions it needs to format. In case if the user has not taken a backup of data stored in such partitions, losing files is guaranteed.
If you Google the reasons for Windows partition loss, it will give plenty of results. No matter how you have lost your partition, partition recovery software will always help you to restore deleted or lost partitions. You might be thinking how recovery utility retrieves the files from deleted and formatted partitions. Even after deleting or formatting a Windows partition, the files stored will not be erased immediately. Only the index files and pointer which are responsible for stored file manipulation will be removed and storage space marked as available but the actual stream of bytes still resides on the stored sector until it is overwritten with new data. An efficient recovery utility scans the storage drive and recovers such data with the help of different file attributes.
Remo Recover (Windows) – Pro Edition is one of the popular Windows partition recovery software which is developed by some expert data recovery professionals. This tool facilitates you to restore deleted or lost partitions from SATA, SCSI and IDE hard drives. Using this utility you can retrieve files from formatted, partitioned and re-partitioned hard drives along with the hierarchy of files stored.
You can download Remo Recover (Windows) – Pro Edition for effective Windows Partition recovery process.