subject: Windows Xp Does Not Detect Hard Drive When Using A Boot Disk [print this page] Partitioning a Windows hard drive allows you to effectively manage your data, storing your system and data files on different partitions and install two or more operating systems. It also allows you to divide your disk into organizable chunks of memory. The Windows partitions may become inaccessible if your system can not detect the hard drive. Such cases, make all of your files and folders inaccessible and cause partition loss. To recover lost partitions in such situations, Windows Partition Recovery, through effective and reliable tools, is required.
As a practical example, you might come across following error message while trying to boor your Windows XP that is installed on specific hard disk partition:
Hard drive is not being detected when using a boot diskette.
Additionally, you come across same error when you attempt to start your system using another operating system that is installed on other hard disk partition. This behavior of Microsoft Windows does not let you boot your system and access hard drive partitions. Such situations require you to identify the cause of problem and carry out Partition Recovery by sorting it out.
Root of the issue
There are a number of things that cause this problem. Some common ones among them are as given below:
DDO (Disk Drive Overlay) or some other software are being used on hard drive.
Hard disk drive is using the SCSI (Small Computer Small Interface) interface.
Hard disk is not setup correctly in the CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor).
Hard drive is either damage, corrupted or not formatted.
Hard drive controller settings are marked as AHCI in system BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) settings.
Solution
Check all of your hard drive controller and BIOS settings and correct them. If it does not solve the problem, issue could be due to damaged hard drive and need hard drive formatting. Formatting removes all your disk partitions and stored data. It need Partition Recovery Software to resolve the problem.
The Windows Partition Recovery applications recover lost partitions in most of the cases and successfully restore your valuable data. The tools allow you to methodically scan your entire hard drive using high-end scanning techniques and recover all lost partitions. They come equipped with simple, interactive and rich graphical user interface and thus let you carry out easy and quick recovery.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a read only and robust application for assured recovery. It recovers all FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions from Windows hard drive. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
