Possibilities of lost Partition Recovery

Hard drives are divided into several data storage areas called as partitions. Partitioning is beneficial because, it segregates the operating system files and program files from the user files. In disk partitioning the hard drive is segmented into logical drives, also called as volumes. 

How do partitions get damaged? 
Scenarios where partitions can get damaged or lost are: 
  ·         corrupt partition tables 
  ·         virus infections 
  ·         abrupt system shutdown    
   ·         power surges 
  ·         operating system crashes     
   ·         Deletion of partitions and formatting the hard drive,    
   ·         Upgrading the existing version of OS with a new one etc.  

Whatever may be the cause of partition loss, the result is severe data loss and inaccessibility of the partitions.  The file systems may get corrupt due to a physical or a logical damage to the hard drive. 

Chances of recovering the partitions 

In order to resolve this issue, we need have correct information of the sizes and locations of the partitions. Format the damaged hard drive, reinstall the operating system, and restore data from the most recent valid backup. In case the backup is unavailable, severe data loss occurs as formatting the hard drive, deletes data from the disk.

In case of damaged partition, the reasons may be virus attacks, damaged partition tables or crashes. In such a circumstance the data is still available on the hard drive and can be restored by recovering the partition table.

In any case there is a need to recover files that are lost due to partition corruption. You can select a file recovery tool to recover files from the damaged partitions.Lost partitions may result due to unintentional deletion, power surges, accidental formatting etc. Here you can opt for a third party partition recovery tool to recover damaged / lost partitions.

Recovery of damaged / lost partitions using reliable partition recovery software

There are many partition recovery softwares available on the internet. These partition recovery softwares come with an interactive user interface. It understands the file system and uses high-end scanning techniques to scan through the entire hard drive and extract the corrupt and inaccessible partitions from it. This can also be used to recover files that are more important from the deleted or corrupt partitions.

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