File Loss After Changing Active System Partition Using Disk Management Tool

In Microsoft Windows based computer, your hard drive can be divided into several partitions. A Windows hard drive can have maximum four primary partitions as the size of partition table is limited to 64 Byte and every partition entry require 16 Byte of space. You can mark any of your primary partition as active by using the Windows Disk Management snap-in tool. But in some situations, after marking a primary partition as active, your system might not boot. At this point, all of the files stored on your hard drive become inaccessible and serious file loss situations take place. Windows data recovery solutions are required to sort out such issues. In a practical scenario, after you employ Windows Disk Management snap-in tool for marking the primary Windows partition as active, your system might not boot up and you might come across the below given error message:

“NTLDR is missing.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.”

This behavior of your Windows system renders all of your valuable data files, music files, images, application files and multimedia files inaccessible and result into file loss situations. In these circumstances, you need to find out the cause of this issue and go for windows data recovery by sorting it out.

Grounds of the issue

This situation might take place if the Windows partition, which is marked as active, doesn't have Windows boot files or boot files for another OS. On the Intel-based computer systems, the system partition must be the primary partition, which has been marked active for the startup purposes. System partition must be situated on disk, which is accessed by your computer when it boots up. There could be only single active partition at one instance. When you like to use other operating system, you need to first mark the system partition active prior to restart the system.

Resolution

In order to fix this problem, use any of the below given methods:

Change active system partition by booting the system from floppy and then using the disk utility to change active partition.

Boot the system using Windows XP boot CD and use Windows Recovery Console to correct this behavior.

When all else fails, go for windows data recovery software to methodically scan the hard drive and retrieve all of the lost files. These software are quite easy to use and thus do not demand sound technical skills. Due to read only and non destructive conduct, these tools are completely safe to achieve absolute recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and the most powerful tool to recover all sorts of lost files. It recovers files from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This windows data recovery software is compatible with Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

By: Robin Watson

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Robin Watson a student of Mass Communication doing research on hard drive data recovery software . He is also a freelancer for www.windows-data-recovery.net/