Fix error- “Invalid or damaged bootable Partition”

Master Boot Record or MBR is the first boot sector on your Windows operating system based hard disk drive, along with Windows XP based hard drive. the 512 byte boot sector comprises of one active or bootable partition, primary partition table, disk media and bootstrapping operating systems. Corruption or damage caused in MBR might take place due to number of reasons such as improper system shutdown, virus infection, operating system malfunction and more.

In these situations, the bootable partition might also become corrupt; consequently becoming unbootable windows based hard disk partition. This further result in inaccessibility of data which is saved in Windows XP based hard drive. The best way to fix MBR corruption error message is by running fixmbr repair command. However, if the fixmbr command is unable to repair the corrupt MBR and hard drive partition remains inaccessible and unbootable, then you need to have a professional partition recovery software to recover your important data. This situation can be further explained for a real-time scenario, when the user comes across the following error message:

“Invalid or damaged bootable Partition”

This error message occurs when you start the Windows XP based hard partition. After the above mentioned error message occurs, you won’t be able to access the data store in the hard drive partition of your system. In addition to this, the same error message appears each time you try booting your Windows XP based system. This clearly indicates that the above mentioned error message is a result of corruption or damage caused to MBR.

Mentioned below are some guidelines that let you overcome the above mentioned error message effectively and therefore to access the data saved on your Windows XP based partition, you can:

1. Perform MBR repair using the command given here:

Fixmbr device name

Note- The above mentioned command has the risk of damaging partition tables.
 
2. If the above mentioned command fails, then we suggest you to run this repair command:

FIXBOOT drive

3. If both these commands fail to resolve the above mentioned error message then you will have to reinstall Windows XP operating system. Once the re-installation is complete, all the previously saved files and folders become inaccessible. In order to access these files, we suggest you to restore the data from a latest updated backup copy. However if there is no backup available, use professional partition recovery tools that offer advanced support.
 
These partition recovery tools are known to scan the formatted hard drive partition with high-end scanning algorithms and recover all lost files and folders. These partition recovery tools restore complete partitions therefore the entire data stored within them. These partition recovery tools are powerful enough to recover all formatted, deleted and lost Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000 based partitions.