This topic contain information about partition table and how to perform recovery when partition table goes wrong and your hard disk become inaccessible.
Windows operating system from Microsoft allows you to divide your hard disk into various partitions. These partition behave as a separate disk that can be used to install operating system, other programs and [...]

Google provides a utility called Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, using which you can synchronize Microsoft Office Outlook with Google Apps (e-mails, contacts, calendar, etc.). Also, the utility allows you to import your existing Outlook data from an Exchange Server account to Google Apps. Irrespective of the design and powerful features it contains, Outlook [...]

Does your computer stops responding upon startup? Do you see an empty black screen after POST (Power-on Self Test) and before Microsoft Windows logo appears screen? This behavior make your system unbootable and you can not stored data from the system. It cause critical data loss situations and need Windows Data Recovery to be handled. [...]

When you attempt to increase or decrease the size of your primary or secondary Windows hard drive partitions, you may find some unformatted space on the drive. This space can not be used, until you format it. if you format this space and reboot the system, the system fails to start normally. When you boot [...]

In Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 operating systems, a backup of boot sector is created and stored in the last sector of partition. You can use the backup copy of boot sector for replacing damaged boot sector of the partition. But, if the FAT32 partition become inaccessible or damaged and you try to repair it [...]

This booting error message can occur due to various reasons, like file system corruption, metadata structure damage, deletion of user profile, and virus infection. The data stored in the your hard drive partition becomes inaccessible as your computer is unable to boot. An ideal way to access the data in such scenarios is by restoring [...]

Microsoft Outlook uses MSMAPI32.dll file, which is a module associated with MAPI32 (Windows Messaging API). The application accesses this component for several purposes, also for running Scanpst.exe tool. The Scanpst utility is basically designed to fix corruption errors of an Outlook PST. If this fails for the issues rooting from MSMAPI32.dll, you fall in inevitable [...]

One of the safest way to access your data post any logical or physical corruption scenario is by using an up-to-date backup file. Understanding this requirement, Microsoft has incorporated NTBackup utility in Windows NT and above operating systems to create a valid backup. The backup file created using this utility can be saved on the [...]

If your Windows operating system is installed on primary hard drive partition, which is formatted using NTFS file system and you reformat the same partitionduring setup for clean installation, the partition is automatically formatted as FAT. It copies files from boot disk and then tries to restart your system in GUI mode to proceed with [...]

From a structural and external prospective, NTFS (Current Technology File System) file system employs same methods to organize the files as FAT (File Allocation Table) file system. It is generally known as the directory or hierarchical tree model. The basis of directory structure is the home or root directory that is a major system metadata [...]