Windows 7 uses a relatively different disk partitioning mechanism and scheme. One of the typical examples is creation of hidden 200 MB partition to store Recovery Environment files. Hence it becomes crucial that you give specific considerations to compatibility for Windows 7 when using a partition utility. An incompatible partition manager can otherwise cause partition table corruption, rendering your partitions inaccessible. Such situations call for a complete backup or a Partition Recovery Software that can be used to extract the lost data.
The further scenario will help you comprehend such problems in more detail.
Consider you use a Windows 7 Home Edition based computer. Without realizing the potential compatibility issues, you use a third-party partition manager that is not updated enough to be used with Windows 7. After this, you observe few unexpected symptoms such as below:
The drive letter of primary hard disk partition changes
Windows 7 starts in recovery mode but is unable to recover automatically
When you use a Windows 7 boot DVD, you observe that one or more of hard disk partitions show lesser partition size value than actual
You reinstall Windows 7 and observe an undefined hard disk partition. When you activate it, all your hard disk partitions are lost
This is one of the distinctive examples of Windows 7 partition table corruption due to use of incompatible partition manager.
You are recommended to choose Custom installation instead of Clean Windows 7 re-installation. Also, you can use a Windows 7 boot DVD itself to access and then modify the hard disk partitions. The older partition managers might not recognize and properly deal with Windows 7 partition table and corrupt it ultimately. Thus, to prevent such issues, check for the support for Windows 7.
To restore the lost data, use your last backup. However, there can be situations when the backup may either be absent or seem invalid. In such cases, you need a
Partition Recovery Software to scan and then recover the lost data. A Partition Recovery application can use a powerful, yet safe, set of scanning algorithms to analyze the lost or corrupted hard disk partitions and avail data recovery.
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