Hard disk drive is most critical component of your computer system, which works as main data storage for your system. It contains all your significant data, operating system and applications. Hard drive is considered as the most reliable storage media, but it may also fail at some point.
When your drive fails in Microsoft Windows computer, you may come across disk failure errors and all your data become inaccessible. In such cases, hard drive recovery is required to extract your lost data from failed Windows hard drive.
In a practical scenario, you might encounter following error message when you attempt to start your Microsoft Windows XP-based computer:
“Hard disk drive failure”
When you try to boot the same system from Microsoft Windows 98 boot disk, and then attempt to use Fdisk.exe utility for accessing the disk partition information, you may get another error message that is similar to the following one:
“No fixed disk present”
This behavior of Microsoft Windows XP renders all of your valuable data inaccessible and cause data loss circumstances. In order to get your data back in these situations, find out the cause of this problem and perform Hard Drive Data Recovery by sorting it out.
Root of the problem
You may experience this problem with your Windows XP computer if any of the below given conditions are true:
Your Windows hard disk drive isn't installed properly.
The hard disk drive isn't configured properly in the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) of your Windows computer.
The hard drive is either missing or damaged.
File system corruption or raw hard drive.
These issues make your hard drive inaccessible for the operating system and thus system does not boot up.
Resolution
In order to fix this problem, contact your computer vendor for assistance. If the hard drive is having logical problem, format the drive and reinstall operating system. This behavior fixes most of the hard drive related errors, but also remove all the data from hard drive and cause serious data loss problems.
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