Wednesday, August 25, 2010

How to resolve - "Sector not found/read" error

We use hard drive as the primary storage media for most of the desktop and laptop PCs. For our convenience of storing and organizing data in a better way, we use to divide the space in the hard drive. This task of dividing the storage space into different partitions/volumes is known as disk partitioning. Furthermore, a disk can be divided into at most four and at least one primary partitions.

A primary partition carries the file system and can become an extended partition which can be further divided into secondary partitions or logical partitions. We can reap many benefits by installing different operating systems into different primary partitions. However, with multiple operating systems, many errors arise while booting, leading to loss or inaccessibility of data. Windows data recovery software recovers your lost data and relieves you from these panic instances of data loss.

Let us assume that you have created 2 primary partitions with Windows and one of the Windows partition is again sub divided into 2 logical partitions. However, when you are attempting to boot your Windows partition up, an error is popping up and the drive is becoming inaccessible thereafter. The error message may be similar to the following:

“Sector not found/read error”

Cause:

There are two primary reasons behind the occurrence of the above error message as listed below:

Corruption in the partition table of the hard disk.
Any damage to the MFT of the hard disk.

Resolution:

In both the above cases, though it is important to rectify the error, however the most important thing is that, your valuable data lies with the troubled hard drive and safe recovery of the data is the foremost priority. Furthermore, in case of partition table corruption as well as MFT damage, the repair process is very complex and slightest of the mistake can cost you the whole data. Hence, as the best possible way to repair the drive to normality, is to format the drive and reinstall, it better advised to recover the data trapped in the drive with Windows data recovery software.

These Windows data recovery software are built with powerful scanning methods to fetch the partition information first and then, they find the partitions and recover them. Though the process is not that simple, the way it is told, however, we may never witness its complexity because of the cool, simple and interactive user interface of these software.

We may find many demanding Windows recovery software in the market, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most popular one and for its risk free policy it has been the most trusted one. This magical Windows recovery utility can guaranty recovery of your deleted, formatted and inaccessible data from any FAT, exFAT and NTFS file systems. Moreover, masking, clone drive, create image, drive status, raw recovery, save scan etc options are awesome.

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