Partition Loss When Fixmbr Command Damages Partition Table

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP offer an excellent feature to repair and restore damaged MBR (Master Boot Record), which is known as FixMbr. This is a Windows Recovery Console command, which can rewrite whole code of the Master Boot Record. In a partition Windows hard drive, the MBR is a small piece of code, which is located at the first sector of hard drive and runs every time whenever your system starts the booting process. Corruption to this data structure makes your Windows computer unbootable and thus all of the critical data inaccessible.

In such situations, all of your hard drive partitions become inaccessible and you can not access your precious data. In some situations, while attempting to repair damaged MBR, the Windows Partition Table may get damaged accidentally and require Partition Recovery to be performed.

Partition Table in Microsoft Windows operating system defines the hard drive partitions. It stores whole partition information such as partition size, starting location and ending location. Every partition in Partition Table records 16-byte.

Use of FixMbr command might make all of the hard drive partitions inaccessible and result into partition loss if any of the below given conditions are true:

The hard drive is infected by viruses.
Your system is experiencing some hardware or system metadata structure related issues.

To prevent data loss and partition loss, you are recommended to follow the underwritten steps prior to use the FixMbr command:

Always use a powerful and updated antivirus software, which is able to scan your hard drive and remove viruses and affected files.
Check all the hardware resources.
Backup all of your valuable data. You should check data backup for media integrity and status.

If all else fails, you need to go for third party Partition Recovery Software to get all of your lost partitions back. These software are powerful enough to methodically scan your whole hard drive and extract all of the lost partition partitions and data. Efficient scanning mechanisms are used by this software to achieve absolute Partition Recovery.

With interactive and simple graphical user interface, these software are completely easy to use and do not demand sound and prior technical skills to achieve absolute recovery. Partition Recovery Software use non destructive design and so they perform original recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution to retrieve lost partitions. It recovers all FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

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Author is researching on hard drive lost partition recovery problems and gives solution to recover your data in partition data loss with partition recovery software.