Resolving "Sector Not Found…" Error Message

The practice follows by computer users to divide a single hard drive into various partitions is known as hard drive partitioning. Two main advantages of creating hard drive partitions are – categorization of data and possible installation of two or more operating systems. While installing different operating systems provide various benefits, it can also result as serious boot errors. In such situations, data stored in the hard drive partition becomes inaccessible. To regain your critical files, you need to restore data from an updated backup. However, if no backup is available or the backup falls short of restoring the required data, then you need to go for powerful Partition Recovery Software.

Consider a practical instance, where you have created three primary and two logical hard drive partitions. However, when you attempt to boot any of your hard drive partitions, the following error message gets displayed:

"Sector not found/read error"

The data saved in all the hard drive partitions becomes inaccessible after the occurrence of the above error message.

Cause :
The primary causes behind the above error are:

• Partition table corruption
• Physical corruption of hard disk

Resolution :

In case of partition table corruption, the best possible way is to format your hard drive and recreate all the hard drive partitions. A clean reinstall erases all the previously stored data from the selected hard drive partition. Also, when we recreate the partitions, complete data loss takes place. In such partition data loss scenarios, you need to use powerful Partition Recovery Software. Such recovery utilities completely recover all the lost files and folders by incorporating powerful scanning algorithms. These recovery utilities are self-explanatory tools due to their highly graphical and intuitive user interface.

In case of physical damage to the hard drive, you need to take help of efficient hard drive recovery services. These services are offered by renowned data recovery organizations and are performed by highly experienced data recovery professionals. Data recovery from physically damaged hard drive partitions should be performed under the sterile environment of Clean Rooms. Clean Rooms provide controlled environment which is free from factors like dust, humidity, ESD (Electrostatic Discharge), excessive heat or pressure etc. Stellar Information Systems Ltd Provides advanced hard drive recovery services to recover lost data from physically corrupt hard drives.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the most advanced Partition Recovery Software. It can recover data from lost, deleted, corrupted or formatted partitions and volumes. This advanced tool supports FAT16, FAT32, vFAT, NTFS and NTFS file systems. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

Author is working as freelancer for data recovery company and researching on hard drive partitioning related problem. She explains the error which arises at the time of partition; because due to this error she has lost data. For lost partition recovery author is using partition recovery software. And recommend to all to use recovery software for lost or corrupted partition.