Windows Partition Recovery Software To Prevent Data Loss Caused By Improper Partition Resizing

Windows 7 includes a handy utility 'Disk Management' that allows easy shrinking and expanding of hard disk partitions according to the user requirements. You can do a number of disk related tasks quite efficiently without interruption using this comprehensive tool. It can be used for disk initialization, creating new partitions, formatting the existing partitions with any Windows supported file system. Sometimes improper resizing of partitions can be dangerous to your file system and may cause severe data loss on your computer. In such situations, you need to go for partition recovery through a reliable third-party utility.

Lets consider a practical scenario wherein you are using a Windows 7-based computer. You have two partitions on your system hard disk. You use the Windows 7 Disk Management to shrink one partition by some amount and extend another by the same size. The very next time you reboot your system and try to access the extended partition, you may come across the following error message:

“:\ is not accessible
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.”

Cause:
Resizing partition has probably damaged the partition table or resulted in corrupt file system structures.

This would make the partition inaccessible and as a consequence, you could lose all the valuable partition data. An updated backup is useful to recover any lost or inaccessible data in such circumstances. If the backup is not available, you should try to recover partition by following the below given steps.

Resolutions:
Try to resolve the above error by following these steps-

You should try to repair the corrupt file system by running the chkdsk command with /f switch. To do so, follow this procedure-
Go to 'Start' and click 'Run'
Now, run the chkdsk command by typing
'chkdsk /f '
Here, the drive name should exactly match the one appearing in the error message
Click 'OK'

Note: It is advised that you should take a full system backup before running this utility to avoid any data loss instance.

If the problem still persists, you should take help of an efficient partition recovery software
to recover back all the lost or inaccessible data from the corrupt partition. These software enforce powerful algorithms to extensively scan the corrupt drive and save all the recovered data to a user-specified location in the system.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a proficient data recovery tool that recovers lost, deleted, or formatted data from FAT, NTFS, and exFAT file system-based partitions. It includes a feature to create an exact clone of the hard drive. It can perform Windows partition recovery using this clone.

By: Miss Rebecca Taylor

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Rebecca Taylor is an expert for writing articles and currently working for Stellar Information Systems Ltd. Stellar Information Systems specializing in data recovery including windows data recovery, partition recovery , hard drive recovery, hard disk data recovery and data protection services and solutions. It also provides services on computer forensics to various law enforcement agencies.