Recover Lost partitions from Windows

Windows partitioning tool has come to an advanced level, in earlier versions of Windows especially in Windows 98 or earlier ones we used to boot the drive using a bootable floppy and then using a DOS external command “Fdisk” to create partitions.

With Fdisk we had limitation of creating only one primary partition which was overcome in subsequent releases such as Windows NT etc. The installation media can be used to boot the machine and the Windows installer has inbuilt tool to create partitions. Once we have installed Windows we can manage partitions using Windows Disk Management tool called “diskmgmt.msc”.

This tool allows us to create partitions and provides advanced partition management options. When Windows disk management tool was not available, third party tools like paragon disk manager, partition magic or Acronis Disk management tools were and are still available. They allow resizing or moving the partition, which even Windows Disk Management tool is unable to handle.

Nevertheless, loss of partition is catastrophic. These 512 bytes of information if lost could prove fatal as then there is no information left which can tell the OS, which drive to boot and which drives begins from which sector of the drive. All the primary, extended, and logical drives are lost.

Disk Doctors provides advanced lost partition recovery software, the software has two modes to scan and locate lost / missing partitions.

Quick Scan: This scan finds all the partitions when there is some corruption with the MBR of the Windows or it is missing or deleted. This scan can easily locate all the lost partitions in no time and allows Windows data recovery components to recover data.
Thorough Scan: This is the advanced form of lost partition recovery. This disk scanning method is extremely helpful when a drive is re-partitioned or resized. Finding older or reformatted partition is extremely difficult, this is the reason why this method scans the drive heuristically and tries to locate and validate lost partitions. For e.g. on a 40 GB drive having 2 equal sized partitions (both NTFS) now re-partitioned and reformatted as two partitions, one 10 GB as NTFS and the rest space 30GB formatted as NTFS. Thorough scan designed and offered by Windows data recovery software is efficient enough to locate those two older 20 GB NTFS partitions to recover lost data.

To recover lost partitions we should attach the drive to another machine as a secondary drive and install Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software and then should scan the drive to locate lost partitions.

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