'Invalid drive specification' – is a windows error that generally appears when a command (containing a drive letter) is run. The operating system is unable to find. One way to sove the issue is to run the command using a different drive letter. However, there are times when you get this error while accessing a hard disk partition using boot floppy disk or CD.
Occurrence of 'Invalid drive specification' error at this point of time can be serious as this suggests that the Windows partition is inaccessible, possibly because of corruption. This is when a Windows Data Recovery utility can come handy.
A new hard drive with 'Invalid drive specification' error indicates that it needs to be partition and formatted before being used. But in other cases, a boot disk can prompt this error when:
You are trying to access Windows XP or later NTFS partition using a boot disk that has been created for Windows 98 or earlier. The DOS command prompt in such cases cannot read the NTFS partition of Windows XP or later. Thus you need to use a different boot disk that is exclusive to the operating system and can read the partition. If no such disk is available, create NTFS recognizing disk.
If the above case doesn't, you should make sure that your hard disk is correctly configured in the BIOS. An improperly set hard disk is not accessible by Windows.
If you get this error even if BIOS settings are appropriate, the partition to be accessed is corrupted. To resolve the issue, you can delete the damaged partition if you have a backup to restore the data. But to extract data from a corrupted partition itself, you need to use a Windows Data Recovery Software. Designed to run effective scanning algorithms, these Windows Data Recovery software are competent enough to restore lost or deleted data from Windows disks.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a high-end, easy-to-use utility that can recover lost data from Windows disks partitioned to NTFS, NTFS5, FAT32, or VFAT file system. Providing advanced features like, disk cloning, disk imaging, RAW data recovery, etc., this is one of the most efficient Window Data Recovery Software.
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