The most universally occurring data loss situation that any user faces is accidental partition deletion, or any sort of partition corruption, resulting in an inaccessible partition.

In addition, with periodical release of new versions of Windows, bringing new exciting features, improvements and new look and feel, creates an eagerness in users to take benefit of new releases. However, upgrading from an existing version of Windows to a new released version isn’t that easy or not always compatible. A user may encounter partition related problems, during an upgrade process, or may end up in losing a partition having important data.

Partition loss situations ranges from simple partition deletion, to complex partition corruptions. To enumerate the causes, let’s figure out the problems, and partition recovery solutions that users generally rely upon.

Problems encountered during an upgrade or Installation of Windows

• The hard drive is not available during setup, on which you want to install Windows Vista or Windows 7.
• The hard drive partitions are formatted as a dynamic disk
• Your attempt to install Windows Vista or Windows 7 fails on a partition, which is a FAT partition. FAT partition is incompatible to install Windows Vista or Windows 7
• You are trying to format the partition to install Windows, but formatting of the targeted partition fails
• Inability to access partitions that were created using GPT on another PC
• Requirement to shrink, split or resize a partition, due to lack of space or need for a new partition
• Selecting an incorrect drive to format and install Windows, when there are two hard drives attached to a PC with similar capacity, model number.

Common methods / solutions opted to manage a partition upgrade or an Installation

• Check BIOS settings, disable SATA native support or update the drivers during installation of Windows through “Load Drivers” option.
• Try and reformat a drive to convert it back as Basic Disk
• Try and use chkdsk.exe to correct any disk or file system errors
• Use convert.exe command to convert a FAT partition to NTFS
• Use third party utilities to shrink, resize partitions
• Finally, you try either diskpart.exe, or any third party partition management utility to remove all partitions, and re-initialize the disk to be ready for a fresh installation of Windows Vista or Windows 7

While attempting all the above-mentioned steps, there are extremely high probabilities that you may not be successful, and might commit mistakes, eventually losing one of your important partition with important data.

In that case, you have to restore data, and if you do not have a backup of your data, you need to use Remo Recover (Windows) to recover data from the deleted or the corrupted partition.

Types of partitions loss, corruptions

• Simple partition deletion – It is the most commonly occurring situation, where a user ends up deleting other important partitions, while trying to delete one of the partitions.
• Re-partition – The re-partition situation arises prominently due to advanced requirements, related to changing a partition layout. Users may resize an existing partition and format it again with the same or any other file system (for e.g FAT partition formatted as NTFS, after resizing the partition). It is the most complex and challenging data loss situation.
• Partition Corruption – Most unexpected situation caused due to third party partition management utilities, viruses or power failures

Suitable Remo Recover (Windows) Edition for Partition Recovery from such data loss situations

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