Restoring corrupt or unrecognized MS Windows partitions

One can have latest updates and new services added to their existing Operating System. Periodical updates launch and new service packs of products are common with Microsoft Operating System suite to have improved services and functions. The updates can directly be installed on your existing operating system. After installing updates, you are free to take advantages of the enhanced features of Windows operating system. However, in some situations, the whole installation process doesn’t get accomplished easily and it gets aborted, as a result the system remains in partially updated state, which is of no use.

Due to this, Windows hard drive partitions become inaccessible and you come across some severe partition loss situations. Therefore, to get back lost Windows data you can take help of latest backup copy. But if it’s not available you can take help of third party recovery tool to restore partition in an accurate and reliable manner.

Consider a practical situation, when you install updates of Microsoft Windows XP on dynamic disk, you might come across the below error message:

“Windows XP cannot recognize the partition you selected.

Setup cannot install Windows XP on this partition. However, you can go back to the previous screen, delete the partition. And then select the resulting unpartitioned space.

Setup will then create a new partition on which you can install Windows XP.”

On getting this error message, installation process halts midway and your Windows computer becomes totally unbootable or inaccessible. Therefore in such times, it’s required to find out the root cause of the problem and then go for suitable partition recovery.

Reasons behind this issue

This particular issue can arise due to any of the following reasons given below:

• The hard drive of your Windows computer is unrecognizable

• The Windows hard drive appears to be corrupted

• The structure of the Windows hard drive is damaged

• Hard drive file system is either damaged or not supported by the service pack that you are installing

Solution to this problem

To get rid of this problem, you need to follow the given below steps in a systematic manner:

• First of all, go with CHKDSK utility to check the integrity and consistency of your Windows hard drive

• Format the affected hard drive, reinstall Windows operating system, and restore data from the most recent backup

There is quite a possibility that you don’t have backup copy. But not to worry use efficient partition recovery software, which is specially designed to deal with such partition loss issues. It is helpful in severe data loss where hard drive formatting removes all the data from the disk. Partition recovery get back your precious files and folders when there is accidental or intentional formatting of partitions, virus contaminations, loss of MBR, boot sector or FAT loss, MFT (Master File table) corruptions or may be registry corruptions.