June 15th, 2009 | 
Author: An operating system upgrade is performed to take benefits of added features and functions of the new versions. But sometimes after upgradation, your computer may not boot or the hard drive partitions go missing and your critical data becomes inaccessible. This behavior results as serious partition and data loss situations and require Partition Recovery tools for resolution.
As a practical scenario, when you attempt to upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP or when you attempt to install a new hard drive on your Microsoft Windows XP computer, the hard drive might not appear in My Computer or in Windows Explorer. The hard drive might appear in the Disk Management console and in Device Manager. In this case, the Disk Management console can not be used to assign a letter to the hard drive.
This behavior of Microsoft Windows XP may make your entire hard drive and all of its partitions inaccessible. Therefore, you can not access data and information from the hard drive partitions and come across partition loss situations. In such cases, to get your partitions and data back, you need to find out the cause of this problem and perform Partition Recovery as per the basis of data loss.
Grounds of this issue
This issue might occur if you have used Roxio GoBack tool on your hard drive. This problem takes place because the Roxio GoBack alters the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the hard drive and modifies the partition type. This behavior can cause the hard drive to be inaccessible in Windows XP, even when the hard drive appears in the Device Manager and in the Disk Management console.
Roxio GoBack is a Windows based hard drive tool, which can record the disk changes. If the file system is idle for a while, it makes these changes as “safe points.” This tool allows the hard drive to be reverted to any point within the available history.
Resolution
You can sort out this problem by following these steps:
Configure the hard drive as a primary master and then restart the system.
Disable Roxio GoBack.
Shutdown the system and then return the hard drive in its original configuration.
Although, this method may fix your problem, but it is not recommended to use it until you are not sure that you can safely follow all the steps. If this process fails, critical data loss may occur.
In such cases, you need to use Partition Recovery Software that can systematically scan the entire hard drive and retrieve all lost partitions and data from them. This type of software is safe and user-friendly tools to perform absolute Partition Recovery.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced and powerful Partition Recovery Software. It supports FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems based partitions and volumes. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 (Currently in RC1), Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
Author is researching on partition data loss problems and trying to give solution to recover partition data through partition recoverysoftware.
Article Source: Partition Loss When Roxio GoBack Changes MBR and Partition Type
