Symptoms of Partition Corruption

Sometimes when you start you Windows computer or try to access a hard drive partition, the operation may fail and you may encounter any of the following behaviors:

o "Invalid media type reading drive" error with three options: Abort, Retry and Cancel.

o The partition file system is shown as ‘RAW'. Your operating system can not read anything from the hard drive and thus you can not access the data stored on the partition.

o Windows might prompt you to format the hard drive partition with the message- "Disk is not formatted. Do you wan to format it now?" It normally happens because of file system and system files conflict.

o Operating system shows error message- "Sector not found."

o File names shows strange characters

After any of the above problems, your data stored in the hard drive partition becomes inaccessible. You need to figure out the problem and resolve it to gain access of your precious data. You can achieve that by carrying out efficient Partition Recovery.
Grounds of Partition loss issue

You may encounter the above problems due to certain issues with your Windows partitions like corruption or file system damage. It may also take place due to partition table corruption or file system table problem.

The final result would be the loss of your Windows partitions and precious data stored in them. In such cases, you need to go for Partition Recovery to get your valuable data back.
Partition Recovery is the process of retrieving lost Windows partitions by scanning the physical disk. It is of potential help with the use of third party applications known as Partition Recovery Software.

Partition Recovery Software are specially designed to scan your hard drive, locate the lost partitions and then recover them. They are largely automated tools designed to achieve absolute Partition Recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the high end Partition Recovery Software that offers sheer power to recover lost partitions and volumes. It is capable of handling each and every partition loss scenario due to logical failure. This robust Partition Recovery tool supports recovery from FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 partitions. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

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