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Windows operating system allows you to have more than one hard drive in a single computer. The hard drive could be either internal (attached as a salve, known as secondary hard drive) or external. All the hard drive can be accessed concurrently. The secondary or external hard drive is generally used to create backup or transfer data from primary hard drive. But in some cases, after attaching a secondary hard drive, Windows can not read primary hard drive and the hard drive partitions become inaccessible. This behavior of Windows operating system results into partition loss and needs Partition Recovery to be fixed.

After attaching a secondary hard drive to your Windows computer, the primary hard drive does not show in the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) or in My Computer. This issue might occur even if you haven’t touched the primary hard drive when you hooked up the secondary hard drive. As a corrective measure, you can try detaching secondary hard drive.

This method works in some situations and may resolve the issue. If the problem persist, connect your primary hard drive to another healthy computer, which has same version of Microsoft Windows installed. Here you might find that the hard drive is not visible in My Computer but it shows in Disk Management. The drive might show the file system as RAW and whole disk space as unallocated. In such cases, you should use CHKDSK to repair any type of damage to hard drive. If your file system is working properly and is not damaged, CKHDSK would scan entire hard drive and might resolve the issue. But in case if file system is RAW, as you seen in Disk Management, you might get the below error message while analyzing the hard drive: “No partition is bootable” After this error, if you use CHKDSK with /f option, it will indicate the disk structure is file.

This behavior of Microsoft Windows indicates that the file system is badly corrupted and your hard drive partitions can not be accessed. You should use Partition Recovery Software to get the hard drive partitions recovered in such cases. These software employ effective scanning mechanisms to methodically scan your hard drive and recover all of the lost, missing and inaccessible hard drive partitions. With read only and non destructive design, this software performs safe and original Partition Recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is an advanced and comprehensive Partition Recovery Software. This software recovers all FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000. It also recovers lost emails from PST and DBX files.

Author is researching on hard drive partition related problem also on lost partition recovery and gives solution to recover your data in partition loss with partition recovery software.

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