June 13th, 2009 | 
Author: Modern computers with efficient power supplies allow you to have one or more hard drives in a single computer. The hard drive which has operating system installed on it is known as primary hard drive and the other are known as secondary hard drives. It is the best practice to use secondary hard drives to create backup of your critical data.
But sometimes when you attach the additional hard drives to your computer, the hard drive partitions become unavailable in the operating system. So, the data stored on them becomes inaccessible. Such behavior causes critical partition loss and you need to opt for Partition Recovery solutions to resolve the issue.
As a practical scenario, when you attach a SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard drive to your Windows computer, you may face the following situations:
Moving files from the main drive to other Windows drives does not work. No error message is shown but the process does not complete.
Copying files to other drive does not work.
You can create new files on the drive but these files can not be opened, once after you close them.
Formatting the hard drive does not work. While formatting the drive, you might come across the following error message:
“Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programs that are using this drive, and make sure that no window is displaying the contents of the drive. Then try formatting again.”
When you run chkdsk, the following error message gets displayed:
”Run chkdsk at the next startup”
At this point, you may feel that changing or accessing existing hard drive partitions and data is not allowed.
Cause
You encounter this error message due to corruption of partition structure of hard drive. It could be due to file system corruption, MFT (Master File Table) corruption, FAT (File Allocation Table) index table damage and other similar reasons. Such behavior of Windows computer requires Partition Recovery to be fixed.
It is the process of scanning whole hard drive and retrieving all the missing, corrupt, inaccessible and deleted hard drive partitions using third party Partition Recovery Software. This software can recover lost partitions in most of the partition loss cases.
Partition Recovery Software is user-friendly tools and they do not require any sound technical skills to achieve absolute recovery of your mission critical data. With read only and non destructive design, this software is entirely safe to use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the advanced and robust Partition Recovery tool to recover lost Windows partitions and volumes. It supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. The software is compatible with Windows 7 (Currently in RC1), Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.
Author has shared practical experience of partition problems and gives suggestion and solution to use partition recovery softwareWhen windows user are facing problem with secondary hard drive at the time of for partition recovery.
Article Source: Partition Recovery from Secondary Windows Hard Drive
