Formatting Unallocated Disk Space May Cause Partition Loss In Windows

If you try to decrease or increase the size of any of primary and secondary partitions of your hard drive in Microsoft Windows, you might find out some unformatted and unallocated disk space. This hard drive space is not usable until you format it. When you format this disk space and then reboot your system, it might not start properly and may give you some sort of error messages. If you boot it in safe mode, you might encounter that the hard drive partitions are missing and only formatted disk space is there. It renders all of your critical Windows hard drive partitions inaccessible and results into serious partition loss situations. At this point, you should go for Partition Recovery Software to retrieve the lost partitions and stored data.

When you enter the Disk Management Console of your Windows computer and remove the newly generated partitions and then merge the disk space to previously created disk partitions, it completes effectively. But after that, when you try accessing the disk partition, you receive the following error message:

"The disk in drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"

When you get into My Computer, you could see all of the disk partitions, but you are not allowed to access them. When you check the properties of partitions, it indicates that 100% of the disk space is free and this is a RAW partition, means its file system is RAW.

In such cases, to recover your significant hard drive partitions and stored data, you need to identify the cause of this behavior and then go for Partition Recovery by sorting it out.

Cause

You might come across this problem due to corruption to the partition header. When you remove any partition or format unallocated disk space on a Windows hard drive, partition header might get destroyed. The partition header is a critical data structure that starts with first sector of disk partition and holds all critical information about the partitions such as starting and ending sector, size, label and more.

Resolution

You can recover lost partition easily using Partition Recovery Software. These applications are specifically designed to retrieve missing, lost and inaccessible Windows partitions. You need not be anxious about your less technical skills as these tools do not demand sound and prior technical knowledge.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most powerful and robust tool to retrieve all of the lost partitions. It supports recovery for FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This Partition Recovery Software is designed for Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

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Author is doing research on partition recovery related problems and discussed on the Unallocated Disk Space Cause Partition Loss. Author suggested to use partition recovery software in case of partition loss or file corruption.