Ntfs Partition Corruption: Reasons And Resolution

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FAT and NTFS are the two most popular file systems for creating partitions on hard drive. In the present scenario, NTFS file system is used to create partitions on each and every system because of its accessibility and less aptness to corruption than FAT file systems. But still NTFS partition get corrupt, resulting in to loss of vital data.

The foremost reason of NTFS partition corruption is the corruption of a boot sector. If the NTFS boot sector is corrupt, it cause boot problems. Adding to the worst, it can make your data inaccessible, corrupt or damaged.

On booting the Windows based computer, user might receive the following error message:

Searching for Boot Record from CD/DVD.. Not Found

Searching for Boot Record from BBS-0: [Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082) ] OK

Searching for Boot Record from SCSI.. Not Found

Boot Failure

Reboot and Select proper Boot device

or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device

Press any key when ready

The above error message is a result of missing or corrupted boot record from your Windows. Partition corruption is fatal and ...
... results into loss of data within. There are various reasons of corruption like virus infection, hardware problems, damaged system data structures or invalid settings in system BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), voltage fluctuations, dirty shutdown, incorrect user action, software errors etc.

Data stored on the partition is very important and one cannot ignore the issue of inaccessibility of data. So, it's good to know the techniques for partition recovery.

1.The boot sector is so crucial that Microsoft itself includes a backup copy of it on the partition. To repair a corrupt boot sector, all you need to do is locate the backup copy, then use the information it contains to overwrite the primary boot sector. But, this technique is not as easy as it sounds. The primary NTFS boot sector is located at the first sector of a drive whereas the NTFS back up boot sector is located at the last sector of a drive.

2.Check the BIOS settings to see whether the S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) feature is enabled. Disable this feature and then restart your computer. If again the error message appears, this feature is outdated. After that, check the boot sequence settings of your system. If you are still getting the same error message, then hard drive formatting is required.

Formatting of a hard drive will remove all the errors
occurring due to boot record failure, partition table corruption or any other reason, but it has a negative aspect also. Formatting of a hard drive removes all the drive partitions and causes complete loss of partition. In such situation, partition recovery software is required for convenient and easy retrieval of lost partitions.

Partition Recovery software uses comprehensive scanning algorithms, so that lost partitions can be retrieved in an easy and secure manner. The only requirement is to select the best partition recovery software among number of available software. Best partition recovery software can be chosen by evaluating the free demo version of the software.