Incorrect Modification Of Hard Drive Causes Partition Loss
While creating a swap file in Windows, you may encounter the following error message that may prevent you from doing so:
“The partitioning scheme used on your hard disk prevents the creation of a permanent swap file.”
The swap file is a hard drive space that is used as virtual memory extension for computer’s RAM (real memory). It improves the system performance. You can organize a swap file as contiguous space so that less I/O operations are needed to read/write complete file.
You get this error message whether you are using a Virtual Memory dialog box while installing Windows or 386 Enhanced options in Control Panel for creating swap files.
This error message could result from any of the following:
A virus
A partition manager
Uninitialized fields in partition table
Microsoft Windows keeps complete information of what hard drive it uses when it makes permanent swap files. If you incorrectly modify the hard drive that is formatted using third party software, Windows may find it invalid and thus display disk errors and cause data loss. To avoid such data loss situations, Windows ensures that it recognizes the accurate hard drive information.
In any case, if you incorrectly modify the hard drive, you may encounter serious partition loss problems. This situation generally occurs in following cases:
You are using a dual-boot system and both operating systems are using different partition schemes.
You computer is infected with viruses. Some viruses may create their own disk partitions and set them as boot partitions (for instance Michelangelo virus).
No matter what the cause of this problem is, the ultimate result would be the loss of your hard drive partitions and you need to carry out Partition Recovery. Partition Recovery is best possible using third party tools, known as Partition Recovery Software.
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