Is your Windows hard drive refusing to boot up when you start your computer? Can you boot your system using a floppy disk without any problem? The problem may occur due to missing or damaged boot files on your Windows hard drive. Corruption may occur due to numerous reasons such as virus infection and improper system shutdown. In such cases, all your hard drive data may become inaccessible and you may face critical data loss. You need to restore valuable data from a complete backup. However, if the backup is not available, hard drive recovery becomes need of hour. When a hard drive refuses to boot in such cases, you can boot the system using a bootable floppy disk and can access the disk using third-party disk utility software. After booting the system, you can run disk repair utility, like ChkDsk tool, to detect and fix hard drive errors. Cause Generally, when Windows hard drive can not be detected in BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) but accessed normally after booting the system using floppy, it implies a problem with logical components of the drive. The most common cause of this problem is a damaged boot sector or a boot sector virus. Resolution Try the below methods to fix the problem and perform hard drive data recovery: Reboot the hard drive Scan your hard drive using an updated anti-virus software. If the problem is due to a boot sector, it can help you to sort the issue. Set the system or boot partition as 'active', if you are changing the hard drive partitions. Else, you can not boot from primary partition. Boot your system in Recovery Console and fix a damaged boot sector, if it has been corrupted by a virus or some other reason. Put your DOS partition as the first partition, if you are configuring your system as dual-boot. If none of the above methods work, you need to format the hard drive and reinstall operating system to fix damaged boot sector. However, formatting removes all the data from hard drive and creates need of hard drive recovery You can successfully recover lost hard drive data using third-party hard drive data recovery software. The applications use efficient scanning methods to ensure absolute recovery in all cases of data loss. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most excellent solution for all kinds of data loss. The software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, 2003, XP, and 2000. It supports recovery from NTFS5, NTFS, FAT32, VFAT, and FAT16 file system partitions.
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