subject: Windows Data Recovery To Handle Boot Sector Corruption [print this page] In a Microsoft Windows computer, the boot sector is a hard drive sector, which contains significant code for booting program stored on other parts of hard drive. There are two major types of hard drive boot sectors- MBR (Master Boot Record) and VBR (Volume Boot Record). For proper booting and functioning of your system, it is essential for the boot sector to be intact. Any damage to this part of hard drive renders your system unbootable and cause critical data loss situations. In such circumstances, you have to opt for windows data recovery to get your valuable data back.
Understanding the concept and functioning of Windows file system boot sector is helpful while troubleshooting the disk corruption or boot failure like situations. From time to time, generally due to virus infection, hardware failure and improper system shutdown like situations, Windows boot sector gets damaged. When the primary partition or a hard drive partition that contains operating system, of your hard drive become corrupt, it could prevent your system from booting. Otherwise, it might simply make the partition inaccessible.
Resolution
When you suspect that the boot sector of your file system is damaged, you need to check the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) settings. The values in all fields of the BIOS should be valid. The boot sector corruption is generally indicated by a number of error message in Windows system, which include the following:
Invalid system disk
Disk I/O error
Replace the disk, and then press any key
Non-System disk or disk error
Disk Boot failure
BOOT: Couldn't find NTLDR
Please insert another disk
To perform Windows Recovery on a boot sector, which has been affected by viruses, it is generally best to use commercial anti-virus application. Several viruses would do much more than simply writing data to boot sector, thus manual repair isn't recommended as it might cause further damage.
When above method does not work, hard drive formatting is required. It solves all of the disk related problems, but also cause data loss. In these circumstances, Windows Data Recovery Software are required to retrieve all of the lost, missing and inaccessible data.
The Windows Partition Recovery applications carry out thorough scan of entire hard drive and retrieve all of the data from it. The tools have self-descriptive and interactive user interface to provide ease of use.
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and most efficient tool for successful recovery. It recovers lost data from all FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. The software works well with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.
