Changing Active Partition May Damage Ntldr File In Microsoft Windows

In Microsoft Windows computer, all of the system files are stored on a hard drive partition known as Active Partition

. This is the partition from which your Windows computer starts up. Active Partition must be the primary partition on basic disk. In exclusive installation of Microsoft Windows, active partition is same as system partition. In case if you change your active partition, your system may become unbootable and you come across critical data loss situations. At this point, it become essential to carry out hard drive recovery to retrieve lost data from your affected Windows hard drive.

Consider a practical scenario, when you use MS Windows Disk Management snap-in utility to mark the hard drive partition as active. After you complete the process, when you reboot your system, you might come across below given error message:

NTLDR is missing.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

NTLDR (New Technology Loader) is the boot loader for all Windows NT-based operating systems. It loads the operating system and boot your system. But in case of damage to the NTLDR file of your Windows operating system, you can not get into the system and access stored data. In such cases, you need to find out the cause of this issue and carry out Hard Drive Data Recovery by sorting it out.

Root of the issue

This problem may occur if critical Windows boot files are not available on the newly created Windows Active Partition. It might also take place when it encounters other boot files of Windows operating system.

Resolution

In order to sort out this problem, go through below given steps:

Change the active partition of hard drive by booting it using floppy disk. You could then use disk repair tools like fdisk.

You could also use Windows Recovery Console to sort out the problem. It would work if the current active partition is formatted as NTFS or FAT file system.

When all else fails, format the hard drive and reinstall Windows operating system. It resolves all hard drive related problems, but also cause data loss and need Hard Drive Recovery Software to retrieve lost data.

The software are capable of methodically scanning the affected Windows hard drive and recover all of the lost data from it. Hard Drive Recovery through these applications is quite easy and safe.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and the most popular application for effective recovery from all damaged hard drives. It recovers data from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

by: Garry Thomson

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